We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/09/unbelievable-guye-adola-just-ran-fastest-marathon-debut-history-didnt-know-running-berlin-4-days-race/
Sounds like a confident character with the right sort of balance of determination and relaxation. Would be great for him to become a serial contender.
you can't stay here wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/09/unbelievable-guye-adola-just-ran-fastest-marathon-debut-history-didnt-know-running-berlin-4-days-race/Sounds like a confident character with the right sort of balance of determination and relaxation. Would be great for him to become a serial contender.
PS this has reminded me how much I miss little Kebede being at the front of (seemingly) every single big marathon getting stuck into the Kenyans. Still only 30 years old!
Awesome article
LetsRun.com wrote:
We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/09/unbelievable-guye-adola-just-ran-fastest-marathon-debut-history-didnt-know-running-berlin-4-days-race/
Tell me more about this peanut butter recovery drink 🤔
doot doot wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:We've got a guest piece from Michael Crawley up on the front page now.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/09/unbelievable-guye-adola-just-ran-fastest-marathon-debut-history-didnt-know-running-berlin-4-days-race/Tell me more about this peanut butter recovery drink 🤔
This was my reaction as well. I googled "laos peanut drink", "Ethiopian peanut drink", and half a dozen similar things, but came up empty.
great story! just gained a new fan! thanks for this!
Peanut butter drink does sound pretty good -
http://andyandtarasworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/ethiopian-eats.html
mentions it "Peanut tea is just peanut butter and hot water blended together, which you then sugar to taste. In my case, a lot of sugar. But it is then like drinking liquid peanut butter and a really amazing drink."
Very interesting article anyway (on Adola)
excellent, quite the character, good guy and you could see in the race how well he withstood the pressure and relaxed most of the way. 2:03:46 debut in the rain, that is something else.
Loved this article, thanks for posting! Definitely now a fan
Thank you for the article! Just from watching the race, you could tell Adola had a relaxed, happy-go-lucky demeanor. I'm also a fan now. Great insight into his personality.
more interesting is his comments on Kamwo
“I think 2:36 the first kilometer, which is hard because we had been here adapting to 2:55 pace, or sometimes 2:45 for one or two kilometers. And also the weather demanded a lot of power. If you don’t have power and you start to feel empty, the wind will blow you all over the place,†he said, shaking his head. “In other races abroad, I’ve complained that it was hot, but I was exaggerating. In this one, the weather really was tough. So I really have a lot of admiration for him (Kamworor) today, I can see that he has real, real power.
About the fall at the start of the race, he said, ‘They were all pushing from behind. There was a lot of pressure. We knew that we had to go very fast from the beginning, otherwise as everyone is full of energy they will push us here and there. I don’t know whether he was tripped, but Kamworor fell. If he hadn’t fallen to his left side I could have got away, but he did and there was nothing I could do. I thought maybe I could jump but then I would have really hurt myself. So anywhere, there I was. We both tried to get up onto our knees, and actually the first time he helped me up, but again we were returned to the ground. We tried again and we were pushed down again. I hurt my back, someone ground their foot on my back. So there was a lot of pressure from behind but I was able to hold most of it and Kamworor got away then. I saw him throw his cap away and then he was off as if he’d been stung by a bee.â€
if a 27-flat/59-flat/2"03-high guy says another one has REAL, REAL power, then you know how good that guy has to be & no ethiopian ever pays a Kenyan any compliments
also, it appears that Kamwo didn't fall once at start but 3 times !!! as kept being knocked down
i have said repeatedly, the Kamwo in cardiff was in best 1/2-M shape that the world has ever seen & also in incredible 10k shape but got ill in trials & never recovered for rio & even this year when somehow retaining x-country title
he may never be in cardiff shape ever again & whatsmore, i think he has quit track running which is terrile for the sport...
calculo wrote:
more interesting is his comments on Kamwo
“I think 2:36 the first kilometer, which is hard because we had been here adapting to 2:55 pace, or sometimes 2:45 for one or two kilometers. And also the weather demanded a lot of power. If you don’t have power and you start to feel empty, the wind will blow you all over the place,†he said, shaking his head. “In other races abroad, I’ve complained that it was hot, but I was exaggerating. In this one, the weather really was tough. So I really have a lot of admiration for him (Kamworor) today, I can see that he has real, real power.About the fall at the start of the race, he said, ‘They were all pushing from behind. There was a lot of pressure. We knew that we had to go very fast from the beginning, otherwise as everyone is full of energy they will push us here and there. I don’t know whether he was tripped, but Kamworor fell. If he hadn’t fallen to his left side I could have got away, but he did and there was nothing I could do. I thought maybe I could jump but then I would have really hurt myself. So anywhere, there I was. We both tried to get up onto our knees, and actually the first time he helped me up, but again we were returned to the ground. We tried again and we were pushed down again. I hurt my back, someone ground their foot on my back. So there was a lot of pressure from behind but I was able to hold most of it and Kamworor got away then. I saw him throw his cap away and then he was off as if he’d been stung by a bee.â€
if a 27-flat/59-flat/2"03-high guy says another one has REAL, REAL power, then you know how good that guy has to be & no ethiopian ever pays a Kenyan any compliments
also, it appears that Kamwo didn't fall once at start but 3 times !!! as kept being knocked down
i have said repeatedly, the Kamwo in cardiff was in best 1/2-M shape that the world has ever seen & also in incredible 10k shape but got ill in trials & never recovered for rio & even this year when somehow retaining x-country title
he may never be in cardiff shape ever again & whatsmore, i think he has quit track running which is terrile for the sport...
calculo, that is genuinely interesting but please don't hijack this thread. This is about Adola.
Thank you.
That's right up there with some of the best sports writing I've read. Kudos to Michael Crawley, the author. And really interesting, if still somewhat peripheral insights into the life of Guye Adola. Probably because they feel genuine, they've left me with more of a sense of the person than any number of "embedded" PR pieces on the well-known stars of the sport.
Agreed. Dig these articles that humanize these guys. So critical.
Also - did the peanut drink immediately after reading. Switched out hot water for coffee. Good.
So does this mean he wasn't included in the usual WMM prerace out of comp testing pool?
I loved the piece. Amazed 1) he had no idea he was running until 4 days before
2) He was going to run with 2nd group, but decided to go with first and nearly beat the greatest marathoner of all-time.
What an amazing story.
Anyone else buy into the ignorance is bliss theory of marathoning?
That's a great piece.
Is he going to be the first to run and 1?
For marathons not sure but I absolutely race my best when I'm feeling good and hop into a race last minute.
wejo wrote:
I loved the piece. Amazed 1) he had no idea he was running until 4 days before
2) He was going to run with 2nd group, but decided to go with first and nearly beat the greatest marathoner of all-time.
What an amazing story.
Anyone else buy into the ignorance is bliss theory of marathoning?
