What was Kimetto's 'casual training'?

About four miles a day according to another quote.

Do you have the source for that, please?

Thanks.

28-minutes for which?

10K?

Seriously?

Berlin Question wrote:

Do you have the source for that, please?

Thanks.

Kimetto said that.

28 minutes on 28 miles a week wrote:

Berlin Question wrote:

Do you have the source for that, please?

Thanks.

Kimetto said that.

Through a Swahili interpreter according to Philip Kersh in this article.

Of course people will insist that it must have been 14 or 40 miles a day because nobody is born with sub 35 minute 10km ability on minimal training.

28 minutes on 28 miles a week wrote:

Berlin Question wrote:

Do you have the source for that, please?

Thanks.

Kimetto said that.

You could at least link the purported source, wiseass.

Hmmmm. I'd be very curious to learn more about this.

His "casual training" was mostly being a farmer. I knew one who ran a 4:40 mile as a HS freshman... off of 110 hurdle training (in which he broke his school record). Quit track after that because he was working more hours on the farm than most people were awake. Another farmer I knew ran around 15:00 for road race in high school. While he was running a lot because his grandpa was a distance runner, he was big and bulky as main sport was football, and he had a 4.6 40y. It blows my mind to think what he could have done in a 400 or 800 if he ever gave it the chance. Farmers are tough, dude.

Weaselton wrote:

28 minutes on 28 miles a week wrote:

Kimetto said that.

You could at least link the purported source, wiseass.

Did I not after I found it again?

Call it courage wrote:

His "casual training" was mostly being a farmer. I knew one who ran a 4:40 mile as a HS freshman... off of 110 hurdle training (in which he broke his school record). Quit track after that because he was working more hours on the farm than most people were awake. Another farmer I knew ran around 15:00 for road race in high school. While he was running a lot because his grandpa was a distance runner, he was big and bulky as main sport was football, and he had a 4.6 40y. It blows my mind to think what he could have done in a 400 or 800 if he ever gave it the chance. Farmers are tough, dude.

Being a farmer does not make you a great runner, it just gets a talented runner in good all around shape.

It does very little to further develop running potential.

I was a farmer too.

28 miles of training, ok. But what about the many hours a day he spent farming? Did he farm or raise cattle?

It could have been 28 miles per week of 5 min/mile pace training and more than 28 more miles per week of 10 min pace walking/farming.

Still shows talent

28 minutes on 28 miles a week wrote:

Being a farmer does not make you a great runner, it just gets a talented runner in good all around shape.

No shit, Sherlock?

Call it courage wrote:

28 minutes on 28 miles a week wrote:

Being a farmer does not make you a great runner, it just gets a talented runner in good all around shape.

No shit, Sherlock?

That was for the people that will try to say that farming is just like running 100 miles a week for 10 years, not you my dear Watson.

tending cattle in east africa can mean going long distances with them to find enough food, so he may have been very active.

I an guarantee you his running had little to do with his farming.Milking a cow and driving a combine at 6am does nothing for cardiovascular strength.

Call it courage wrote:

His "casual training" was mostly being a farmer. I knew one who ran a 4:40 mile as a HS freshman... off of 110 hurdle training (in which he broke his school record). Quit track after that because he was working more hours on the farm than most people were awake. Another farmer I knew ran around 15:00 for road race in high school. While he was running a lot because his grandpa was a distance runner, he was big and bulky as main sport was football, and he had a 4.6 40y. It blows my mind to think what he could have done in a 400 or 800 if he ever gave it the chance. Farmers are tough, dude.

28 minutes on 28 miles wrote:

Call it courage wrote:

No shit, Sherlock?

That was for the people that will try to say that farming is just like running 100 miles a week for 10 years, not you my dear Watson.

Nice.

You dumb wrote:

I an guarantee you his running had little to do with his farming.

Milking a cow and driving a combine at 6am does nothing for cardiovascular strength.

Kenyans don't drive combines.

Kimetto had about four cows. Not a lot of cardio there.

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

tending cattle in east africa can mean going long distances with them to find enough food, so he may have been very active.

or not....

"Kimetto said he had been growing maize and tending a few cows." Sounds hard-core. Much moreso than the 1000's and 1000's of american kids who start serious swim training at a young age and keep at it all through their youth, or the american kids who play sports all season, including running sports like soccer, and bike back and forth to school each day. Not all americans are fat and sedentary. Many are extremely active at kids. A big fat ZERO of them can run under *2:06. (and only a couple under 2:09). How many east africans under 2:06 now?? Too many to count.

It ain't the farming.

(*record eligible course. )