Dennis Kimetto 2:11?!

Hayle's comet wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

The brightest comets burn the fastest.

Dennis Cometto?

Lol.

Hayle's comet wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

The brightest comets burn the fastest.

Dennis Cometto?

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He's Kenyan...it's Kometto

El Keniano wrote:

Hayle's comet wrote:

Dennis Cometto?

We need a 'like' button for this board.

On almost any other day (that does not include one of the greatest running performances ever), this would be the POTD (post of the day).

gathernomoss wrote:

+1 with TardLoper

Look for him to be on the rebound in Berlin.

As for being a one it wonder (from the LRC London Preview) :

2012 Berlin: 2nd, 2:04:16 (fastest debut in history on record-eligible course)

2013 Tokyo: 1st, 2:06:50 CR

2013 Chicago: 1st, 2:03:45 CR

2014 Berlin: 1st, 2:02:57 WR

2015 London: 3rd, 2:05:50

In my mind this also calls into question the "suddenly off the dope" theory. It seems like he would have taken heat from the testers before 2014 Berlin, given his previous success.

Why would he want to run the Olympics? He's not in Bekele's situation

where a legacy is on the line.

Kimetto got paid good money to show up and do a workout, then jog it in.

Guessing Bekele was training as well.

Kimetto, like someone earlier here mentioned, is a pure talent-reliant runner as opposed to talent and discipline reliant athletes(Kipsang and Kipchoge). In that case he is very talented. After he reached the pinnacle of marathoning(WR) and get a big paycheck, the "affluence" he can afford distracted him from concentrating on the hard work to make it happen. And of course the injuries(back and knees) have also played a big role in this. It also seems his main motivation may have been money, to get him and his family out of abject poverty. Kipsang, like Kipchoge, on the other hand loves running and will certainly keep running well. He could have run a high 2:04 - low 2:05 today if he had followed a pace of 14:40@ 5K, 29:20@ 10K and 1:02 at half. The aggressive pace and the fall he took at a water station cost him dearly.

But I thought the effects of doping lingers for years after cessation as some have claimed.

Surely when you're as quick as Kimetto is (on your best day), when you find yourself being dropped because you are fractionally worse than someone on a good day, if you've still got 30 minutes+ of running left to do there is a motivation issue with nailing those last miles?

2:11 is more like him jogging it in, I doubt he was red-lining it all the way. Why destroy yourself if you don't have to?

[quote]TardLoper wrote:

You guys don't understand Kenyan racing. His ability is not nine minutes worse just because he blew up to a 2:11.'

Exactly

Absolutely.

This is also true of Bekele in that race. He was likely in better than 2:06 shape, just he ran with the very fast pack for 30km, was really hanging on to the world record quality performance from Kipchoge and Biwott, then crumbled due to lack of training.

If he had run a more even pace across the whole race with pacemakers but no competition to disrupt his plan, I would expect to have seen a sub 2:05 from Bekele at least.

He could not have beaten Kipchoge or Biwott on that day but it was a very gutsy run. If Bekele runs low 2:03 on another course next year I would not be surprised

Kipchoge is something else though and it looks to me that the marathon was always his calling. The strength and composure he showed over the latter stages was unreal. He is looking very old though for 31, anyone else notice? Bekele looked 5 years his junior!

larkimm wrote:

Surely when you're as quick as Kimetto is (on your best day), when you find yourself being dropped because you are fractionally worse than someone on a good day, if you've still got 30 minutes+ of running left to do there is a motivation issue with nailing those last miles?

2:11 is more like him jogging it in, I doubt he was red-lining it all the way. Why destroy yourself if you don't have to?

50% reduction in appearance fee for failing to finish serves as fantastic motivation.

gathernomoss wrote:

+1 with TardLoper

Look for him to be on the rebound in Berlin.

As for being a one it wonder (from the LRC London Preview) :

2012 Berlin: 2nd, 2:04:16 (fastest debut in history on record-eligible course)

2013 Tokyo: 1st, 2:06:50 CR

2013 Chicago: 1st, 2:03:45 CR

2014 Berlin: 1st, 2:02:57 WR

2015 London: 3rd, 2:05:50

HAHAHAHA the OP is a dolt.

Has there been any official comment from Kimetto since London ?

They'll certainly be happy to have him in Berlin (especially with Kipsogue and Kipsang out due to the Olympics) but at a reduced fee possibly ?

You have to look at it in the context of his recent racing. After two-straight DNFs this was a positive result and should have been a confidence builder. Hopefully he'll be back in form this fall.

Remember back in April 2014 when all the conspiracy theorists on these boards were convinced that Meb's win in Boston was a set up? And they claimed, no way Kimetto would've had a bad race?

Yeah. Lol.

Some people only have 2 or 3 really good marathon seasons in them. Remember Duncan Kibet, Sammy Korir................

Checker wrote:

Some people only have 2 or 3 really good marathon seasons in them. Remember Duncan Kibet, Sammy Korir................

They earned more bank than they ever dreamed they could. Enough to buy a nice farm in the Rift Valley. They didn't give a hoot about the glory.

have to mention wrote:

Remember back in April 2014 when all the conspiracy theorists on these boards were convinced that Meb's win in Boston was a set up? And they claimed, no way Kimetto would've had a bad race?

Yeah. Lol.

Huh, didn't realize that Kimetto had run Boston 2014, but indeed "Some bizarrely poor performances from the ‘chase group’ (that’s being generous) included Dennis Kimetto, who dropped out somewhere between 35km and 40km" from