I recall Khalid Khannouchi running 64.5x as a tuneup
before Chicago. he did pretty well.
I recall Khalid Khannouchi running 64.5x as a tuneup
before Chicago. he did pretty well.
Maybe he was having a bad day, mentally dialed it in for the remainder for the race and had to finish to collect his travel money/appearance fee.
The splits don't make it look like he was running it as a workout:
5 kilometer 14:15 (14:15)
10 kilometer 28:47 (14:32)
15 kilometer 44:22 (15:35)
20 kilometer 1:01:01 (16:39)
finish 1:04:35
In other words, he started on pace, fell off a bit from 5k - 10k, then fell way off. Ugly.
btw, the winning time was 60:26 and the top 3 Dutch guys all beat him. Just not good.
Lelisa Desisa did what any 27:11 guy racing a 27:58 guy in a marathon would do, wait until the last kilometer. By running on the leaders shoulders after the 15k mark he was probably just trying to get some people to eliminate themselves by surging too soon. Unfortunately kiprotich was smart enough to pull a kemboi with no elbows and Pick up the pace around the turn. It was a clean race through and through. #yeranepicfailCalgary wrote:
El Keniano wrote:Desisa was especially annoying in Moscow and I relished Kiprotich literally shaking him off by zig-zagging the street then dropping him.
What Desisa did in Moscow was despicable and he lost my respect. He
should have helped to push the pace since his PB is more than two minutes faster than Kiprotich's. He simply "fell asleep" on Kiprotich's heels planning to wake up probably in the last mile and kick past Kip(typical
Ethiopian mischief). The Ugandan realized this and did a good job by
zigzagging, at one point running in the opposite direction from that of the
route. He wont be lucky this time round.
Baby boy the real one wrote:Lelisa Desisa did what any 27:11 guy racing a 27:58 guy in a marathon would do, wait until the last kilometer
i very much doubt the ethiopian knew or cared what the ugandan's 10k pb was
there was no way he was just in 27'58 shape when winning london gold with that fast last few miles finish
the converse of your argument also makes little sense :
if the ugandan's 10k pb was an actual 27-flat, woud you have expected the ethiopian to make the pace to try to drop him before last km ?!
Here is the answer:
"...Dennis moved after Wilson Chebet did, but he pushed too hard, and his hamstring (which he pulled at the City Pier City Half in The Hague in March) went again....".
http://tonireavis.com/2014/04/23/2014-boston-analysis/
Dang!
That helps explain that really strange showing in Boston. And what happened to Desisa?!
Soersersauser wrote:
Here is the answer:
"...Dennis moved after Wilson Chebet did, but he pushed too hard, and his hamstring (which he pulled at the City Pier City Half in The Hague in March) went again....".
http://tonireavis.com/2014/04/23/2014-boston-analysis/Dang!
Thanks - had missed that. I'm a big Kimetto fan - hope he recovers soon.
52.43 wrote:
That helps explain that really strange showing in Boston. And what happened to Desisa?!
+1 Anyone know?