Adela should've won Berlin...

Penguin504 wrote:

Not sure why more people didn't consider Adola a threat. He had a faster half marathon PR (59:06) Bekele and Kipsang, showing he could run faster for longer. He is only 26, so could definitely be a sub-2:02 runner within the next 3-4 of years.

Adola looks 36 LOL.

dc-wonk wrote:

Penguin504 wrote:

Not sure why more people didn't consider Adola a threat. He had a faster half marathon PR (59:06) Bekele and Kipsang, showing he could run faster for longer. He is only 26, so could definitely be a sub-2:02 runner within the next 3-4 of years.

Adola looks 36 LOL.

Yeah. I find the age thing irritating but he does look quite old. In contrast, the Ethiopian guy that came third looked rather young.

Mkenya Daima wrote:

cash me ousside... the line wrote:

You clearly missed the point. It was within Adola's physical capabilities to win. The same can't be said of Kipsang or Bekele, or literally anyone else. The best runner on the day lost.

It was within Adola's physical capabilities to win? Of course it was! It was within everyone's physical capabilities to win when the gun went off! Unless you're saying it was within his physical capabilities to win when he and Kipchoge were duking out at the end. Which is true, and so ridiculously obvious as to be an unnecessary point to make.

Are you this dumb in real life?

blue line deviated = go home devastated

He may have spoiled the record attempt. Eliud wasn't about to hang it all out with an unknown Ethiopian on his back pocket like that.

Craptastic wrote:

He may have spoiled the record attempt.

100% wrong. The conditions sucked and they gave up on the WR way earlier in the race.

What's Kipchoge's next race. I think he should skip the WR and run Boston. Dubai is too soon.

I don't understand why Adola ran that way. How did no one tell him that the blue line was the shortest? When he made his surge he quickly zag'd to the side too which is even worse than slowly drifting over. I don't think he could have saved enough time to matter though and I agree with whoever said that Kipchoge still would have found a way to finish first.

Either way, we have a new name on the scene and I'm excited to see what he is capable of going forward. He looked completely effortless for most of that race. Its much needed because our current top guys have got to be nearing (or already hit) the end of their marathon primes.

Seriously???? wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

No he would not. It made negligible difference.

I hope you will never coach.

The difference between running on lane 1 and lane 2 on a 400m track is 7m. That's around 1.25 seconds at 3:00/km.

Now watch the race again and look at the very, very wide bends and how far from the blue line Adola was.

He lost more than a negligible number of seconds there.

And who know what would have happened if he had passed Brandenburg only 3 or 4 seconds behind Kipchoge...

Seriously, your posts are getting worse and worse with time.

I hope you never become an engineer or anything involving geometry. They were not doing laps on a track, they were doing one lap. If you swerve 5 meters off a straight line over a 100m duration and then back, you've added less than 1 meter or about 0.2 seconds. Even if he did that 5 times it has cost him less than 1 second. Similarly, if he ran 1 meter outside the line for one big lap, he added 7 meters over a course of 42k. Hence, negligible.

They did not "give up on the WR" well past 13.1. The pacers were right on point. They were right on WR pace until 30K when Eliud realized he had an unknown quantity to deal with. Win always comes first. Without Adola it would have been a WR, albeit only 10 seconds or so.

Kipchoge 100% legit wrote:

Craptastic wrote:

He may have spoiled the record attempt.

100% wrong. The conditions sucked and they gave up on the WR way earlier in the race.

What's Kipchoge's next race. I think he should skip the WR and run Boston. Dubai is too soon.

Agree he ran a bit extra but only for about a half mile or so. The rest of the time he shadowed Kipchoge. Besides, Kipchoge looked fresh going through the line. He had another gear if needed.

redlined wrote:

adola wouldve won if he had stayed on the blue lines - his gps watch had his pace at 2:02:47 for just over 26.26 miles, so he could've broken the world record with smarter tactics.

if he was sponsered by nike, would they have coached him better?

We're post-truth now. Let's say he did win.

cash me ousside... the line wrote:

The best runner on the day lost.

Not true. Running is one of the few sports where the best athlete NEVER loses. Unless they get tripped and trampled and killed. That did not happen, so the best runner on the day won.

Stop worrying dude wrote:

cash me ousside... the line wrote:

The best runner on the day lost.

Running is one of the few sports where the best athlete NEVER loses.

If LeBron James ended up racing Malcolm Gladwell in the mile and subsequently lost, are you implying Gladwell is the superior athlete?

I would never want to be an engineer but I have decades of running, racing and coaching and also, of watching races, which I doubt you did today.

If you had watched the race, you would have seen that Adola ran wide on turns/bends/curves, not only "off a straight line" as you say.

And yes, you used to be an entertaining poster a few years ago. Not anymore.

So, you are wrong.

Pythagoras wrote:

Ummmm have you ever taken high school geometry? Of course it makes a difference. Kipchoge was laughing to himself as Adola threw away his race. My coach always told me that following the tangents in xc was the second most important part aside from running fast of course!

Pythagoras was your coach?

Seriously???? wrote:

I would never want to be an engineer but I have decades of running, racing and coaching and also, of watching races, which I doubt you did today.

If you had watched the race, you would have seen that Adola ran wide on turns/bends/curves, not only "off a straight line" as you say.

And yes, you used to be an entertaining poster a few years ago. Not anymore.

So, you are wrong.

I watched the race and have access to the replay. If he ran wide on turns and bends, point out where and how many. In fact, as I'm watching the replay Adola is running inside of Kipchoge on many of the turns as they're side-by-side.

HardLoper wrote:

Seriously???? wrote:

I would never want to be an engineer but I have decades of running, racing and coaching and also, of watching races, which I doubt you did today.

If you had watched the race, you would have seen that Adola ran wide on turns/bends/curves, not only "off a straight line" as you say.

And yes, you used to be an entertaining poster a few years ago. Not anymore.

So, you are wrong.

I watched the race and have access to the replay. If he ran wide on turns and bends, point out where and how many. In fact, as I'm watching the replay Adola is running inside of Kipchoge on many of the turns as they're side-by-side.

You do the homework. I am not going to waste my life showing you you are wrong.

But you are wrong.

He lost by 12 seconds or so, but it's very unlikely that the blue line made that big of a difference since it wasn't until the last 10-8 km that he "started not following it".

There were not that many turns as far as I remember.

Should a 59 minute half marathoner know better? Yes.

Did it cost him the win? We'll never know, and I doubt Kipchoge cares.

Seriously???? wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

I watched the race and have access to the replay. If he ran wide on turns and bends, point out where and how many. In fact, as I'm watching the replay Adola is running inside of Kipchoge on many of the turns as they're side-by-side.

You do the homework. I am not going to waste my life showing you you are wrong.

But you are wrong.

Really? You've wasted a lot of your life in this thread so far proving absolutely nothing.