Why was Bekele so good?

Why was Einstein so smart? Why was Mozart's music so beautiful? Why is my penis so uncomfortably enormous?

This is why all runners need to do heavy squats and Deadlifts twice a week for 3 to 5 working sets by 3 to 5 reps.

best manager .....

that could avail of the best peds of era before even on market .........CERA .

look what ramzi achieved on this sauce . extended hailes career , speed picked up again at end , this stuff works.

the best epo by far and when on the normal stuff from summer 2008 onwards was that bit slower

could not train the same and gave up any thoughts of off season competition in cross country . no more solo efforts

that dominance is something see with chronic doping and from 2002 till 2008 largely what seen .

like other so called stars very much iaaf effort in aiding these athletes to dope .

MICERA ....cera ...... kay cera , cera , what ever will be , will bekele be .

Cicici wrote:

Gene Summons wrote:

He was genetically more gifted and trained very well too. The only reason his training might look better was because his genetics allowed him to do sessions at a faster pace.

Do you believe in Leprechauns and tooth fairies also?

Nope. Just reality as I mention above.

Courage!!

When you run a 13.09 5000m split knowing you will run pretty much alone in the last 5000m, no one other than Bekele had the guts to do that. His last 5000 was a 13.08 solo.

I would rank Kipchoge's courage equivalent to Bekele's. He stepped into the void, ran a 1 hr half marathon and then let it all hang out. He just kept going and really never hit the wall.

Today everyone just saves it for the end. That's why Bekele's 10,000m record will probably stand for quite a while.

Exactly.

TAA wrote:

He had the best leg speed velocity.

And the kind of celerity acceleration speed that would let someone get lapped and come back for the win in a marathon on a track.

Gene Summons wrote:

Nope. Just reality as I mention above.

Unless you have seen his gene expression test results, it is not reality.

Because he ran faster than the people he was racing. You need to re-think your questions.

It took me awhile to appreciate Bekele, because I thought Haile was GOAT. But he won me over. He had it all, from CC to track to the roads. It's too bad he didn't try the marathon a little sooner in his career. If he'd done nothing but CC he'd be pretty high up on the list of greats.

Beautiful form, hard training, good genes, and tough, tough mental attitude.

TAA wrote:

He had the best leg speed velocity.

^This

Banana Bread wrote:

Bekele always was the best. I literally have a funny story about a time I watched he ran.

Can´t you tell us some figuratively funny stories as well?

Journey to Elite wrote:

Genetics is a possibility, he was good from a young age and no extraordinary training was reported.

Given that he was able to run doubles in both the Olympics and the World Cross Country Championships you could put that down to high mileage. Although a particularly high mileage was not reported he may have been running huge mileage but it was just not reported.

He was reported as doing high rep, low weights and you can see this with his leg muscles.

What do you think?

He was an exceptional responder to EPO and other drugs and didn't have to worry about being tested for most of his career. This isn't even arguable.

& i woud thrown in bench, shoulder-presses & pulldowns in order to get the "cadence-drive" from torso

example 101 :

~ 46 runs 43.34R !!! off weights :

4th fastest anchor-man in history !!!

off just 1y of serious western weight-training !!!

what woud Tergat, Komen, Eliud, Asbel, Silas, Noah... etc have done with western weight-training under their belts ???

the Kenyan 400 record is 44.18 !!! from '92 games when some sliver of interest still in sprinting

Korir has run 44.5-open & 43.34R is worth 44-flat open

someone look up ethiopian 400 NR

then learn to think :

if Kenyans had some serious weight-training like ethiopians fortunately had from politics & communist coaches imported from GDR in '70s onwards, what on earth does anyone believe Kenyans wouda run for 400/800/1500/3k/5k/10/M with Korir-esque strength ???

Real Old Guy wrote:

Courage!!

When you run a 13.09 5000m split knowing you will run pretty much alone in the last 5000m, no one other than Bekele had the guts to do that. His last 5000 was a 13.08 solo.

I would rank Kipchoge's courage equivalent to Bekele's. He stepped into the void, ran a 1 hr half marathon and then let it all hang out. He just kept going and really never hit the wall.

Today everyone just saves it for the end. That's why Bekele's 10,000m record will probably stand for quite a while.

Kipchoge? Ehhh.. amazing run but there's a reason it's not a WR.

Lemme know if Eliud plans to run the second half of the second sub-2 attempt all by himself.

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Why is Bekele the best?

Easy.

He Expects Great Things™✔️

(...and isn't a flimsy punkazz grifting btch like Mo Farah)

calculo wrote:

we've been thru this many times but worth re-visiting as further analysis of runs modifies likely ability

kennster was nothing special compared to geb, much slower basic 400 speed & the only distance i favor him over geb is 10k & by small amount ( albeit geb had smaller potential advantage over 5k where they were nearly identical )

Tergat belongs in conversation as he had much slower basic 400 speed than above 2 but best endurance by far of the trio & capable of ~26'15 in his 26'27WR as that was off nonsense ~ 13'18/13'09 splits & he was speeding up last 3k which was run in 7'50 !!! which is 26'06 !!! pace

kennster at his peak i get as

~ 51.25 / 1'47.50

Stride length. He had a freakishly long stride length for someone only 5'6".

And I mean distance travelled in the air between foot strikes, I don't mean how "open" his stride was.

Hicham El had a really open stride with a high front knee lift and although Kenster also has very high back kick,

he does not seem to reach forward as much with his lead leg, he just pops forward off each foot strike in an extremely efficient manner. Watch a kangaroo jump, they don't seem to move their legs much but their stride length is also enormous. How can Kenny do this?

One thing a bit different about the Kenster is that morphologically speaking he is not your archetypical East African, with extremely long legs and small upper body. Ok, his upper body is rather small/unmuscular but he's legs are relatively stout, with heavily muscled quads. Tergat was your more typical long legged freak and as a result was a little "slow" on the 400 side due to lacking in power (but of course amazing endurance). Geb was short, but he's got relatively long thin stick legs for his height.

Maybe the morphology is unrelated, maybe Bekele's muscle architecture, the so called "muscle pennation" is unusually advantageous for rapidly producing force with minimal effort. Add the usual factors: genetically high vo2 max, heavy training, strong-adapter-to-training, altitude adapted, low body fat, very thin skeletal structure at rotational points (ankles, wrists etc), efficient form, mental toughness, performing well under pressure, excellent race tactics, extreme hunger to win, and you have a freak of nature.

laughable

i have no fuucking idea what the diane kruger effect is other than she was short unknown shockingly proferred in brad's troy by whacky euro director

she was middling enough lookin gal, but helen herself ???

Gywneth back-then-before-after-always was the

Ryun-43.95 / 1'38.92

->

2'08.08

3'24.21

3'41.35

here is some impressive logic :

"middle/distance is logarithmic phenomena, meaning logarithmic relationship between distances, numerously expounded if anyone cares to search if ridiculously know already

->

if doubling a distance has logarithmic relationship, then, logarithms dictates that squaring even numbers always yields even numbers

->

3'30 has to have have an "even" number equivalent for 3k

->

this is where i might i have some slight indecision

it might be any off :

7'22 / 7'24 / 7'26 / 7'28 / 7'30

experience/observation tells me 7'22 & 7'30 are nonsense, so throw them out

->

3'30 = 7'24 or 7'26 or 7'28

delving more into admittedly long long time colossal TV/satellite experience/observation & cognitating immensely that 7'24 is too "hot" & 7'28 is too "cold"

->

3'30 = 7'26

work out what 7'20.67 is from that..."

Go to the 45:00 point in this video from the Kolkata (Calcutta) 25K and watch Bekele lay waste to the competition. This just happened. This is where and who he is right now. You've got your answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHau7vMthc