Can we all agree that Mo Farah is primarily a mid distance runner?

There you go again, doing the same thing. Here's where you are so far off the mark.

Jeilan outkicked Mo in 2011. Didn't race him in between. That tactic is 1-0 for him. He also has "only" a 26:59 PR. So, it would make perfect sense to do the same thing again and he almost pulled it off despite two years of injury.

Same with Gebrmeskel, great kick, possibly as good of a kick as Mo. Remember he beat Mo with one shoe. Sitting and kicking makes perfect sense for him. 5K wasn't working for him so he tried the 10K this time.

It goes on and on, if you are willing to look at individuals rather than "the field."

But this "pattern" of trying and failing at the same thing over and over you speak of is fabricated by you, and only exists when you choose not to look at individuals (and you admit to this), and bunch them together as "the field." You do need to learn the names of the competitors, and their results, and their individual skill set if you want to make any kind of analysis, otherwise you end up with the garbage you are spewing out.

Now you're being silly.

Jeilan outkicked Mo in one race in 2011. Dejene beat him in the indoor 3000m. Since then, Mo has out kicked everybody, mostly repeatedly (and I'm excluding Soi's 5000m win last year when Mo was sick). More importantly, Mo ran 3:28:xx last year. Who in the field thought they could out kick a guy like that in a slow race? And who actually did? Easier yet, who exactly do YOU think is going to out kick Mo in a slow race where he goes to the from with 1-2k left?

Rather than slamming someone here for the generic 'Africans' thing, do you really think the tactic of following Mo around in a slow race and trying to out kick him is a sound one? I don't.

That doesn't mean someone like Dejene will beat mo in a faster paced race .. but so far, it seems pretty clear that the current strategy people seem to be run doesn't work.

Caleb Ndiku MIGHT outkick Mo in a slow 5000m, being a 1500m guy, but Mo is still nearly a second faster than Ndiku over 1500m, and Ndiku was soundly beaten by him in he Monaco 1500m last year. So even a top 1500m guy isn't likely to do it.

Mo's lost his 2 HM races because the folks who beat him didn't run a slow race and let him out kick them.

wtfunny makes a good point against my argument, and I'll also mention the 2 mile loss to Kipchoge 2 years back indoors (And Kipchoge is now a marathoner!) - and Mo was NOT on the medal stand at the indoor WC 3000 two years back.

My main point, however, was that it was unlikely that all the marathon talent could have knocked Farah off the medal stand 2011 - 2013. Certainly some of them would have been on the stand, but Mo would have been there too, probably on the top rung.

Appropriately named "dumb guy you," you keep claiming that you don't look at the field as a block, but you do anyways.

It's not about knowing their names or personalities or what they look like or what country they come from (although that struggle is probably related). If you know, for example, that Jeilan (or athlete #23924 if you prefer, you're right you don't need to know him by name if you'd rather remain willfully ignorant) had a 100% success rate in outkicking Mo Farah and a 0% success rate in "running away from him" then you would be able to understand the tactics they used, which I laid out for you multiple times. But not only do you not know their names, you don't even know who is who and who has done what in the field and that's why your analysis is the complete failure that it is.