Mo Farah - Future Marathon WR Holder, you heard it here first !

MoFarahGOAT wrote:

He completed a 2:08 marathon on his debut without proper training. He can lower this mark to 2:05 with ease within a year. I don't think he'll retire before 38...

The commentators said yesterday that he'd told them he doesn't plan a long career in the marathon. Actually a very short one as he doesn't want to stay half a year away of his family training anymore. So I would expect one or two semi-serious starts at the Londom marathon and that's it.

mako wrote:

MoFarahGOAT wrote:

He completed a 2:08 marathon on his debut without proper training. He can lower this mark to 2:05 with ease within a year. I don't think he'll retire before 38...

The commentators said yesterday that he'd told them he doesn't plan a long career in the marathon. Actually a very short one as he doesn't want to stay half a year away of his family training anymore. So I would expect one or two semi-serious starts at the Londom marathon and that's it.

And we also expected Farah to lose because he was "not quite in shape."

Then he runs within 3 seconds of his PR and wins the world championship 10K.

Hm.

He ran a 2:08 without being totally committed. He's not going to break the world record, but he could be someone who can win championship style races. I would not be shocked if he won worlds in the marathon in 2019 and the Olympic marathon in 2020. I wouldn't be shocked to see him win races like New York or Boston either. I would be a little more surprised to see him running 2:03, though. I do think, most likely, he'll be back on the track in 2019, though.

He might want to go for a gold medal in the marathon. Usually, a good deal of the top competition skips the championships and dnf's the Olympics, and the pace is often slow, so that he could just draft and kick in a slow race, his favorite style. He also has 59:22/59:32 as a half pr now, so he will be much better. But London and other places will be so lucrative for Mo, that he will likely take the same route unless he wants to get something neither Geb nor Bekele (nor Khannouchi, nor many other great ones) could or wanted to get, Olympic or World gold in the marathon.

When watching him run a marathon against his competitors, Mo doesn't look as smooth as they do. Don't think he can do better than 2:08 honestly and there's nothing wrong with that. It's a solid time.

How crazy would that be if Farah wins the London Marathon in 2018? Can't wait to unfold.

Maybe2018 wrote:

How crazy would that be if Farah wins the London Marathon in 2018? Can't wait to unfold.

Organizers will pay Mo a $2,000,000 appearance fee then bring in C-list Kenyans for him to Mo(w) through. He'll be waving his arms around up that final hill like a complete buffoon for a win in 2:07:15.

And anyone who loves running will die inside just a little more...