Bekele" Mo Farah CANT break my world records"

Bekele: I was too juiced to lose!

ventolin, everyone is pouncing on you when you try to pretend you are American.

Are you really dumb enough to think you have one obsessed stalker?

Multiple people in the know just come across your alter ego posts and call you on it.

Every record of the past 15 years is highly suspect, Bekele included.

You mean, every champion of the past 15 years is highly suspect, Farah included.

Kenenisa Bekele said:When you run a road race, you have to keep your legs very low. If you have a high action, a high heel, then you are hammering the hard road, you are basically jumping on the road; if you do that for 42km, your body will break down. In track, high heel, big jumping run, no problem. So the method of running, the tactics are different when you compare short distances on a track and long distances on the road.

Interesting to hear he has this perspective, as nobody has a bigger back-kick than Bekele did.

Sure love to have this dude back in full force, but the cycle on injury is rarely broken once it starts.

Mo has beaten hosts of 12:46-50 guys easily, while doubling and handling everyone in the 10k every single time in championships, except for 2011 when he had a gold at 5k and silver at the 10. That is why, in addition to his two sub 3:29 clockings, he is likely a low 12:40s guy, if not better. Last year he ran 59:32/8:03i/3:28.9 and double gold at World's. Among the guys he beat like a drum was Yomif Kejelcha, who led the world with a low 12:50s run.

Low 12:50s puts Farah at more than a second PER LAP behind Bekele's 5k WR. Farah is also more than a second PER LAP behind Bekele's 10k WR.

Farah is never going to approach Bekele's records. Farah will be 33 early next year. Bekele will be 33 while Farah is also 33. The time has passed for Farah to be a WR setter for real distance events.

low 12:50s wrote:

Low 12:50s puts Farah at more than a second PER LAP behind Bekele's 5k WR. Farah is also more than a second PER LAP behind Bekele's 10k WR.

Where are you getting low 12:50s from?

He can run much faster than that.

Ummm, Farah's 5k PR is 12:53. He can run 12:53.

You seem to need a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Farah, Achievements and titles, Personal best(s), 5000 metres: 12:53.16.

low 12:50s wrote:

Ummm, Farah's 5k PR is 12:53. He can run 12:53.

Ummmm, I know what his PR is.

Your second sentence does not logically follow from your first.

The second is entirely logical. Farah can only run what he has proven he can run; 12:53.

I am sure in your imaginary "logical" world all your PRs are better than what you actually ran. So much for your PRs being real values.

low 12:50s wrote:

Ummm, Farah's 5k PR is 12:53. He can run 12:53.

I think that you are confusing past performances with capability. Kejelcha was totally outclassed against Farah, as were multiple sub 12:50 guys, and Kejelcha ran 12:53.98 at the end of the season, where he beat Gebrhiwet decisively in the kick (55 close) and Alamirew was back a ways. This race was pretty much even 62s until the last 1k, when Iguider slowed it to 63/64 before the quicker last lap. These guys could have gone in the high 12:40s in this race with a slightly quicker tempo to the bell and Farah would have beaten them. I'm not saying he can run a 12:37 with a faster solo last 3k than first 2k, as Bekele did, but he is better than all of these current guys, who are proven or about to be (Kejelcha) sub 12:50 guys.

jjjjj wrote:

low 12:50s wrote:

Ummm, Farah's 5k PR is 12:53. He can run 12:53.

I think that you are confusing past performances with capability.

Not at all. Your capabilities mean nothing. It how you perform that matters.

Until Farah updates his wiki page --indeed every runner's personal wiki page or USATF marks listing-- to claim special "capability" PRs then what you are capable of means nothing.

Farah can only run what is PR is. 12:53. He cannot run faster unless he runs faster.

Your imaginary capabilities are illogical; they are not real. 0/10 is your score.

COL wrote:

I think because Salazar's group heavily emphasizes recovery via methods like water running and Alter-G treadmills to alleviate body weight and reduce the stress on the joints and tendons.

My experience with Ethiopian runners is that they do a lot of max sprints, 50-60m sprints, in spikes, almost daily on the track. Perhaps that, combined with the high volume and intensity, contributes to a rapid decay of the tendons.

Do they really do that or did you just make up something that would stress the Achilles tendons a lot?

Agreed, Farah would be in the low 12:40s and I believe if there was a real record attempt then Bekele would start to get worried whilst watching. Bekele is a great athlete but that doesn't mean he is a great analyser of the sport. He is selling Farah short by dismissing him so easily.

Whilst interesting to hear Bekele's opinion; it is just that. He is no expert on Farah. Only Salazar and Farah know what he is truly capable of by watching him in training every day.

No, this is my experience in speaking with Sentayehu Eshetu, probably the most underrated and unknown distance coach in the world.

Lots of max sprinting pretty much daily.