The "real" mo farah (link)

To go from finishing 7th in a wc final, just a couple of seconds from the gold, to running 3:28 in "just" four years is not a miracle.

I mean it's having special lab work done and figuring out which TUEs fit best, and how much gray-stuff to use while avoiding a positive test. Mo was not a believer at first, and that resulted in loss of doorbell hearing. He learned to trust my system.

Alberto wrote:

To go from finishing 7th in a wc final, just a couple of seconds from the gold, to running 3:28 in "just" four years is not a miracle.

You're right. No miracle at all...

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AIberto wrote:

I mean it's having special lab work done and figuring out which TUEs fit best, and how much gray-stuff to use while avoiding a positive test. Mo was not a believer at first, and that resulted in loss of doorbell hearing. He learned to trust my system.

Weren't his TUEs released?

Certainly not the Mo we saw a few seasons later. He gets completely dropped over that last 500m. Totally struggling. Somewhere in the interim, he picked up two new gears.

]trollism wrote:

AIberto wrote:

I mean it's having special lab work done and figuring out which TUEs fit best, and how much gray-stuff to use while avoiding a positive test. Mo was not a believer at first, and that resulted in loss of doorbell hearing. He learned to trust my system.

Weren't his TUEs released?[/quote]

Indeed

"80mg dosage of the corticosteroid triamcinolone, before another in July 2014 following an incident where he collapsed after a training run at altitude. Farah has spoken about having been placed on a morphine drip following his collapse"[quote

The dude sure passes out a lot.

Well, he did lose to two pretty obvious dopers...

Not mo's doorbell wrote:

To think he'd run 3:28 just 4 short years later. It's almost a miracle. Push-ups, kids; do your push-ups.

https://youtu.be/---LOIB8idE

Implications of doping aside he was actually a 3:33 guy in '09. He got knocked about a fair bit in this race and looked like going over at one stage.

To play devil's advocate, farah had really crappy position going into that final 400.

When the real racing started with 300 to go in that race, Farah looks like he's going backwards. Also, 3:33 is light years from 3:28. If Merber dropped a 3:30 this next season, would you be a little skeptical? Whatever Farah and Rupp did in 2013 to improve their 1500 (Farah 3:28)/mile (rupp 3:50i) ability, it worked. Strangely, just two years later, Rupp couldn't even crack 4 in a hometown meet.

Bring back American Eagle flat wrote:

When the real racing started with 300 to go in that race, Farah looks like he's going backwards. Also, 3:33 is light years from 3:28. If Merber dropped a 3:30 this next season, would you be a little skeptical? Whatever Farah and Rupp did in 2013 to improve their 1500 (Farah 3:28)/mile (rupp 3:50i) ability, it worked. Strangely, just two years later, Rupp couldn't even crack 4 in a hometown meet.

Mo's got the least powerful looking stride out of anyone in this race. Looks like the wind is carrying him along like a leaf. Probably wouldn't have been able to bench a leaf at that point either.

A puny guy like Farah with zero muscle, doing most of his training on the streets of London and no core/weightlifting while eating a crap diet... not surprising he couldn't hold on the last 400m. If you can stick for 9600m, I don't think it's outlandish to propose that improved training will get you another 400m. And when you take Lagat and Bekele out of the equation, to be replaced by people with no race tactics whatsoever, you don't even need another 400m of speed to do what he's done since.

His improvement might be astonishing but I think if others went from his old training to NOP world class training they'd make a similar improvement.

Please stop with that old urban legend of Mo's "crap training". He had already been going to Africa, training with the Kenyans. He was a training partner of Mottram, for goodness sakes. So, I suppose you're validating what the OP seems to have proposed, it seems. More press ups was the answer all along?

More press-ups, my backside! Between the race linked above (Berlin 2009) where he was a 13:05-10 capable runner and the European champs the next year where he was suddenly looking like modern Mo and was suddenly a sub 13 man. That is the interesting phenomena and it predates Alberto but it does not predate him flying off to far flung places to train and no doubt becoming acquainted with Mr Jama Aden.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

More press-ups, my backside! Between the race linked above (Berlin 2009) where he was a 13:05-10 capable runner and the European champs the next year where he was suddenly looking like modern Mo and was suddenly a sub 13 man. That is the interesting phenomena and it predates Alberto but it does not predate him flying off to far flung places to train and no doubt becoming acquainted with Mr Jama Aden.

Well said. Hard to pull away from that Sabadell connection once you've tasted it, probably.