Holy Mother of ***. Kiprop 3:26.69!! At 70% fitness, he destroys the Monaco field.

El Keniano wrote:

Asbel is already WC. I say blow off the worlds and focus on the record. Choose venues where El G ran fastest. And bring the same pacemakers: Jackson Kivuva was awesome.

Sadly this would never happen, unfortunately since I feel this would be the only way for him to get the record (this year). Kiprop doesn't seem to hold his top form for a long time (correct me if that is a mistaken impression).

The Wind and The Lion wrote:

ALIEN HEAD > BLOOD OF STEEL!

Somewhere in the Atlas Mountains JAKIR is crying into his lionskin rug.

Ha ha ha ha!

the wind and the lion,

I also thought about this young man Jakir who always comes here calling Makloufi (Yes, I might have misspelt his name) a lion and promising us how he'll destroy Kiprop.

Well, Makloufi will need an injured Kiprop to beat him in Beijing.

Jakir, WHERE ARE YOU MAN?

I am sure he is somewhere weeping in downtown Algiers.

Jakir literally posted an hour before your post.

El Keniano wrote:

Asbel is already WC. I say blow off the worlds and focus on the record. Choose venues where El G ran fastest. And bring the same pacemakers: Jackson Kivuva was awesome.

Yes,

Kivuva was awesome!

I had even forgotten about this guy.

We have another sub 3:30 guy; Manangoi.

Kiprop, Kiplagat, Manangoi and one more for the worlds.

we'll be fine it seems.

v6 wrote:

Jakir literally posted an hour before your post.

I posted my reply before seeing his post.

As usual, he is still blowing his own trumpet.

Kiprop is at 70% while the lion is at 60%.

We'll see a sub 3:20 1500m race this year.

Ha ha ha!

That was not rJakirr.

utter nonsense

he wasn't much better in '13

if seriously chasing wr, i expected 2'45-flat at 1200

it was little/no better than '13

nonsense

anyone who saw bowerman coud calculate route-1, 51+ in 3'48+

nonsense

even when hugely jetlaged/no serious training for week+, he ran route-1 51+ finish in a 3'48+

Asbel was in 3'42/3'43 shape in bowerman but they made mistake of not paying enough $$$ to turn up fresh !!!

no

shoud make people think Asbel can crack 2'11

that indicates mo ran ~ solo 3'28.9 !!!

i have to watch it again

moe is ready to take a crack at a WR.

NativeSon wrote:

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We have another sub 3:30 guy; Manangoi.

Kiprop, Kiplagat, Manangoi and one more for the worlds.

we'll be fine it seems.

I hear you Native Son, but Kwemoi is my fave of the new guys. Lucky for us Kiprop has a wild card. Don't rule out Cheboi and Biwott runs very well in Kenya. Really looking forward to the trials.

Man there's like 10 different JAKIRS on this website now

v6 wrote:

Jakir literally posted an hour before your post.

Actually JAKIR didn't reply, some guy called "JAAKIR" did. I'm retiring the JAKIR character because my threads get deleted and too many people try and make some handle that's like mine. It's annoying. There's only one JAKIR and that's me and I've had this name registered for a few years now. This handle has been registered to me since I created JAKIR. I'm going to make a thread announcing JAKIR'S retirement but I'm sure it will be deleted.

El Keniano wrote:

NativeSon wrote:

[quote]

We have another sub 3:30 guy; Manangoi.

Kiprop, Kiplagat, Manangoi and one more for the worlds.

we'll be fine it seems.

I hear you Native Son, but Kwemoi is my fave of the new guys. Lucky for us Kiprop has a wild card. Don't rule out Cheboi and Biwott runs very well in Kenya. Really looking forward to the trials.

We'll have a formidable 1500m team.

I think the battle will be amongst Kwemoi, Cheboi, Biwott and Manangoi for the last spot.

I hope Kiprop doesn't go for the trials and just let these guys duke it out.

Or may be he could try the 800m just for speed work.

CH wrote:

Man there's like 10 different JAKIRS on this website now

I think so too.

At least the original JAKIR knows how to spell 'Kiprop'.

This is just a troll.

I am ye tto hear from the original guy. He provides good theatre.

NativeSon wrote:

CH wrote:

Man there's like 10 different JAKIRS on this website now

I think so too.

At least the original JAKIR knows how to spell 'Kiprop'.

This is just a troll.

I am ye tto hear from the original guy. He provides good theatre.

I tried to make a thread announcing my retirement but it got deleted. So I'll copy and past what I wrote on that thread. And yes I know how to spell Kiprop. He's one of my favorites.

I'm JAKIR and I'm retiring from my troll/character. Too many of my threads get deleted and there are too many people trying to use a similar handle or just trying to imitate JAKIR and while I appreciate that he's popular here, it's kind of annoying. Yes, I am the real JAKIR. I have had this handle registered for a few years (since I came up with the character) and I'll explain how/why I did.

Back when Makhloufi won the 1500m at the Olympics, I thought the race was great and I thought he looked ridiculous. The look on his face, how much he seemed to be holding back and the way that he elbowed his way to the front on the bell lap were all comical to me. I thought it was really funny and entertaining. I also thought the way that he was instantly labeled a drug cheat here was funny too. I love the pessimism (and realism here I suppose) here. I find it funny.

After his Olympic win, there was a thread about it. There was a guy posting as "London coach". He said Makhloufi was "very very clean". I dunno why but I just found that description funny. He was obviously not a native English speaker and his grammar was really funny too. He posted maybe four or five times in the thread and I got a real kick out of it. He also claimed to have phoned Makhloufi and to have known him. I have no idea if any of it was true but it sure made me laugh. He was the inspiration for JAKIR.

That guy's posts always stuck with me and some time (I can't remember how long it could have been a year but I'm not sure) after that thread I decided to make up a troll character based on "London coach". I wanted to almost seem legit but also I wanted to seem so ridiculous that no one could possibly believe that it was true. I did want some of my posts to have some facts in them so you could maybe think that JAKIR was real. So I googled Makloufi and read every article on him that I could (and continue to do so and I even corresponded with his physio/coach when he posted here a month ago). I found out where he was from and that he was Berber, etc.

So I created him and started posting. I couldn't tell you what the first thread was because they were getting deleted. I never said anything dirty but I would insult people jokingly and then someone would inevitably respond with curse words or just take the insults somewhere else and it would get the thread deleted. It took a few threads for him to catch on and I never thought that he would become so popular. Oh one other thing, I made sure to post in all caps because I know that drives people here mad. LRC posters don't like all caps, 'thons, half marys, and a variety of other things. So I went with all caps.

In one of the first threads I created, someone hijacked my handle and I registered it immediately. So essentially no one other than I has ever posted as JAKIR. I made up all that dumb alien baby kiprop stuff and just any of the dumb things that he said. Are you scare??? All of that stuff.

JAKIR'S name comes from a Bangladeshi guy (I mistakenly referred to him as Sri Lankan on another thread I thinkwhen I went out of character a few weeks ago) named JAKIR whose nickname is Jack. He works at the gas station near my job. I gave JAKIR a last name too, it's Nabha which is the last name of the Lebanese people who own the gas station where JAKIR works. I got him a gmail account so I could post as JAKIR on YouTube on Makloufi racing vids.

To El Keniano who claimed in some thread that the real JAKIR was originallya Berber and later it was a collection of trolls, and you knew this because JAKIRS grammar changed, that's not true (sorry for the run on sentence). Honestly, I had stopped posting for a while and couldn't really remember exactly how I used to talk when I used him. There had to be a solid six to nine months where I didn't post as him because I thought it had gotten old and stale. When I brought him back people seemed to like it so I started posting a bunch again. It was just me the whole time.

I have to be honest, I never thought that there was even a chance that anyone would think JAKIR was real or think that he was entertaining. I'm glad people liked him and I apologize to people who were annoyed by him.

I'll gladly answer any questions that people have. I'm hiking in Glen Canyon in UT today so I'll check this thread when I can. Tonight I can definitely check it. I couldn't watch Monaco or post in the thread til late last night because I was hiking in the Grand Canyon yesterday. I'll prob still post with JAKIRS handle but just as a normal person.

RIP

You will be missed

It's a shame that you're the one retiring and not ventolin...

GOAT lrc handle/character that will be missed dearly.

Please do make celeb appearances in character if PROUD LION ever wins anything in such ridiculous fashion again.

RIP JAKIR

He was a second faster than 2013, pretty significant at this level, and had a lot more in the tank the last 300m than 2014. You need to look up the meaning of the words "utter" and "nonsense." As I posted elsewhere, it looked to me like Farah had around 1200m undrafted, but I'm not going to credit that as equivalent to 2.1 s off, because he couldn't hang with Kiprop, even drafting part of the first 30s or so, and hence was not 3:26.8 caliber. Sub 3:28, however, seems reasonable. As for sandbagging, that was referring to the comment that he was at 70% last week. He looked better at Pre than previously and better again the next time out. He gradually got to this point. This wasn't the 3:36 altitude shape, much better.