Was Bekele's 2011 10,000m lucky?

I will take 4th place at the Olympics in a down year.

vivalarepublica wrote:

I will take 4th place at the Olympics in a down year.

That's not really the point though...original point was why was it a down year after that great race in 2011?

Tron wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

I will take 4th place at the Olympics in a down year.

That's not really the point though...original point was why was it a down year after that great race in 2011?

injury, I remember it being mentioned I believe in the Paris 5k where he ran like 12:55

vivalarepublica wrote:

I will take 4th place at the Olympics in a down year.

I would too. But then neither of us is Bekele. 4th place at the OG is hardly a goal of his.

He had a nagging Achilles injury in 2012, if I recall correctly.

Tron wrote:

...perhaps just lightning in a bottle for that one race

You pretty much hit the nail straight on the head, there.

I may have missed one (i swear he raced himself into shae in the 10000m that spring) but here is what I found of KB's 2012 Season up to Olympic 10,000m coming back from injury with reportedly limited training:

Edinburgh XC - 11th place

Dublin - April 15 - 27:49 10k road race, road PB, course record by 46 seconds

Doha - May 11 - 7:40 - 3,000m

Birmingham - June 22 - 27:02 10,000m (Tariku ran 27:03)

Paris - July 6 - 12:55 - 5000m (4th place i think)

Olympics 10k - 4th 27:32

twenny twelve KB wrote:

I may have missed one (i swear he raced himself into shae in the 10000m that spring) but here is what I found of KB's 2012 Season up to Olympic 10,000m coming back from injury with reportedly limited training:

Edinburgh XC - 11th place

Dublin - April 15 - 27:49 10k road race, road PB, course record by 46 seconds

Doha - May 11 - 7:40 - 3,000m

Birmingham - June 22 - 27:02 10,000m (Tariku ran 27:03)

Paris - July 6 - 12:55 - 5000m (4th place i think)

Olympics 10k - 4th 27:32

not exactly great results (the Paris race he was 10 seconds back in 9th)

twenny twelve KB wrote:

I may have missed one (i swear he raced himself into shae in the 10000m that spring) but here is what I found of KB's 2012 Season up to Olympic 10,000m coming back from injury with reportedly limited training:

Edinburgh XC - 11th place

Dublin - April 15 - 27:49 10k road race, road PB, course record by 46 seconds

Doha - May 11 - 7:40 - 3,000m

Birmingham - June 22 - 27:02 10,000m (Tariku ran 27:03)

Paris - July 6 - 12:55 - 5000m (4th place i think)

Olympics 10k - 4th 27:32

but as others have pointed out...he must have re injured himself after that 2011 26:43 and just never got back into that kind of shape in 2012

What do people think of 2013 Bekele?

Tron wrote:

twenny twelve KB wrote:

I may have missed one (i swear he raced himself into shae in the 10000m that spring) but here is what I found of KB's 2012 Season up to Olympic 10,000m coming back from injury with reportedly limited training:

Edinburgh XC - 11th place

Dublin - April 15 - 27:49 10k road race, road PB, course record by 46 seconds

Doha - May 11 - 7:40 - 3,000m

Birmingham - June 22 - 27:02 10,000m (Tariku ran 27:03)

Paris - July 6 - 12:55 - 5000m (4th place i think)

Olympics 10k - 4th 27:32

not exactly great results (the Paris race he was 10 seconds back in 9th)

yeah, Tariku beat him in that one too. Hagos ran 12:47

12:46 won it...No one has run that fast since, right?

6 dudes under 12:50 and people were fit !

snuggling with Dejen wrote:

Tron wrote:

not exactly great results (the Paris race he was 10 seconds back in 9th)

yeah, Tariku beat him in that one too. Hagos ran 12:47

12:46 won it...No one has run that fast since, right?

6 dudes under 12:50 and people were fit !

yeah...I think he would have competed for the win in that Paris race if he were in the same fitness as this 2011 race

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That Brussels 2011 10,000 seems to have been Bekele's last hurrah at a really good track race.

You really can't gain much fitness in three weeks. He may just been off at Worlds.

Ethiopia screwed him over in 2013.

He put up the fast time at Pre and then his "teammates" planned a quiet race in Italy and three of them beat his time.

K Bekele had the 4th fastest time in the world in 2013 and couldn't run at Worlds.

I'd say Daegu was unlucky for him as was the plot to keep him off the 2013 team.

Not to mention the selection process that kept him off the 2016 Olympic marathon team.

Star wrote:

That Brussels 2011 10,000 seems to have been Bekele's last hurrah at a really good track race.

You really can't gain much fitness in three weeks. He may just been off at Worlds.

Ethiopia screwed him over in 2013.

He put up the fast time at Pre and then his "teammates" planned a quiet race in Italy and three of them beat his time.

K Bekele had the 4th fastest time in the world in 2013 and couldn't run at Worlds.

I'd say Daegu was unlucky for him as was the plot to keep him off the 2013 team.

Not to mention the selection process that kept him off the 2016 Olympic marathon team.

Totally agree. I didn’t know about 2013 race other Ethiopians was “secretly” done. I know after that race, Bekele basically ran a club race 10,000m to try and beat their time without luck (see below). Then of course he beat Mo Farah after worlds which proved he still in shape in 2013...even though he never had a great track race that year as far as I know...did he do anything less than 10,000m in 2013?

snuggling with Dejen wrote:

Tron wrote:

[quote]twenny twelve KB wrote:

I may have missed one (i swear he raced himself into shae in the 10000m that spring) but here is what I found of KB's 2012 Season up to Olympic 10,000m coming back from injury with reportedly limited training:

Edinburgh XC - 11th place

Dublin - April 15 - 27:49 10k road race, road PB, course record by 46 seconds

Doha - May 11 - 7:40 - 3,000m

Birmingham - June 22 - 27:02 10,000m (Tariku ran 27:03)

Paris - July 6 - 12:55 - 5000m (4th place i think)

Olympics 10k - 4th 27:32

not exactly great results (the Paris race he was 10 seconds

yeah, Tariku beat him in that one too. Hagos ran 12:47

12:46 won it...No one has run that fast since, right?

6 dudes under 12:50 and people were fit !

The Paris race was the Ethiopian trials, so they all ran fast but everybody knew that London would have superior testing through the Royal College and GSK, so they were all way weaker just a couple weeks later. Blood transfusions or microdose epo for Paris, worn off by London.