CHESEREK IS THE REAL DEAL- He just destroyed Hagos G and ran 7:38.74

Just wondering what went and is going through the minds of Gebremeskel and Hagos Gebrhiwet to be get beat decisively by a complete unknown. I am sure they had never heard of or took notice of Edward Cheserek up until he kicked for the finish line.

Bad Wigins wrote:

What is so "real deal" about a 7:38, regardless of who beats who?

Cretin.

Bad Wigins wrote:

What is so "real deal" about a 7:38, regardless of who beats who?

Would you agree Mo Farah is the "real deal"? His indoor PR is only 7:34 and I doubt he ran a race the day before.

Even if that was true coming into the weekend, he became known when he ran 3:49 the night before. He was the biggest story of the meet before the gun went off in the 3k. They knew who he was.

Les wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

What is so "real deal" about a 7:38, regardless of who beats who?

Would you agree Mo Farah is the "real deal"? His indoor PR is only 7:34 and I doubt he ran a race the day before.

If his indoor PB is 7:34, then he is not the real deal at that event, not even close. Pretty good though. Much better than 7:38.

Ozzie wrote:

Even if that was true coming into the weekend, he became known when he ran 3:49 the night before. He was the biggest story of the meet before the gun went off in the 3k. They knew who he was.

Yes, the knew he was "the real deal" over the mile distance because they witness his super performance. But they didn't know he could also run well over the 3K and above. Remember before yesterday's 3K race, Cheserek had only run 7:57 outoors and 7:40 indoors and 13:18 outdoors @ 5K. His 3K PRs would have placed him no more better than 4th best in that field with Gebremeskel and Gebrhiwet as the top two by close to ten seconds. Cyrus Ruto, a 13:04 runner ranked higher than him. We forget that beyong the US sports(running) fans, Cheserek is virtually unkown. In that race, Cheserek was like Marilson Dos Santos in the New York Marathon in 2006 where he won against the likes of Paul Tergat, Hendricks Ramallah and Stefano Baldini. Tergat later admitted that they didn't know the guy, that is why they let him go thinking he would come back to them.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Les wrote:

Would you agree Mo Farah is the "real deal"? His indoor PR is only 7:34 and I doubt he ran a race the day before.

If his indoor PB is 7:34, then he is not the real deal at that event, not even close. Pretty good though. Much better than 7:38.

So Galen Rupp (indoor PR 7:30) is "much better" than Farah?

Les wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

If his indoor PB is 7:34, then he is not the real deal at that event, not even close. Pretty good though. Much better than 7:38.

So Galen Rupp (indoor PR 7:30) is "much better" than Farah?

Come on guys.

Farah's indoor 3000m PB is a 7:33.1 SPLIT time en-route to an 8:03 2 mile.

Which happens to be the indoor world record.

Why are we comparing Cheserek or even Rupp to Farah?