Bekele/Kipchoge Push Sub 2

No, but they can get close if they are perfectly paced by Kipsang, in perfect Berlin and take off at 35kms.

klubkip1 wrote:

No, but they can get close if they are perfectly paced by Kipsang, in perfect Berlin and take off at 35kms.

Take off? So run around 4:35 pace for 22 miles then pick it up to sub 4:30?

Cellar_Door wrote:

Also the 5k, his 7:20 3k is actually much softer than many people think (83.6). Bekele/Geb could definitely have broken it with ease in their prime.

Really, Geb raced 3k over five years and Bekele over eleven years and both barely got within 5s of Komen's record.

Bad memory? wrote:

Spaghettimonster wrote:

Sub 2 is only a question of when. People thought 4 couldn't be broken. Once the mental barrier is broken, it becomes possible. Consider the progression of the marathon. In a decade or two, the record has gone down 3 minutes in less than 2 decades. Almost 7 minutes in the last 4 decades. It will go down someday, the progression will be slow though. Maybe 2:02 by 2030 2:01 by 2050 2:00 by 2080? Who knows, but there's no evidence to suggest it can't happen other than that Bekele is the current GOAT and can't hit it. Viren was an king in his era and now he would be an also ran because of how much the sport has progressed.

Exactly who were these people who thought the 4 min mile was "impossible"? Gunder Hägg ran 4,01 in 1945, so I don´t think anyone thought it was impossible after that.

Read The Perfect Mile and educate yourself, young Skywalker.

klubkip1 wrote:

No, but they can get close if they are perfectly paced by Kipsang, in perfect Berlin and take off at 35kms.

My youtube app on this tablet linked me earlier to this year's London marathon (I was probably asleep when it was on) any way looking at Kipchoge's form if he was in this form in Berlin, wow, 2:02:30 or even faster. We all know Bekele is brilliant at whatever he sets his mind to, but Kipchoge looked a cut above in London and Rio.

According to Maffetone if you just do a bunch of aerobic miles and race barefoot you can break two.

Mirror mirror on the wall wrote:

Bad memory? wrote:

Exactly who were these people who thought the 4 min mile was "impossible"? Gunder Hägg ran 4,01 in 1945, so I don´t think anyone thought it was impossible after that.

Read The Perfect Mile and educate yourself, young Skywalker.

I´m 47 years old and I´ve met Hägg multiple times, kiddo.

Go go go go!!!! wrote:

No. Don't be an idiot.

Bekele did not run a single 5k split at 2:00:00 pace, so what makes you think he can run 8 of them back to back?

You are a dumb idiot.

Hmm...

Trackbot! VDOT 32:56 10K

VDOT for 32:56 10km: 65.2

Equivalent race times based on VDOT:

Marathon: 02:32:07

Half marathon: 01:12:40

15K: 00:50:31

10K: 00:32:55

5K: 00:15:51

3Mi: 00:15:17

2Mi: 00:09:52

3200m: 00:09:48

3K: 00:09:08

1Mi: 00:04:36

1600m: 00:04:35

1500m: 00:04:16

I am a bot. Info: habs.sdf.org/trackbot

Lol this thread is hella funny to read now 2:00:25 noobs

Even after mega dosing on EPO they couldn't touch 2:02?

2:00:35 baby