Tim Cheruiyot Skipping Bislett Games Dream Mile To Plant Potatoes

^ *Unlike OTHERS the Kiprop case has shaken the country ...

El Keniano wrote:

However, I am disappointed that a thread about humble, shy and affable Tim has devolved into talk of drugs

I have some sympathy but you must naieve as hell not to see any irony in this thread title when not only Kiprop has just been busted, but the Rio team manager charged as well. What did you expect?

Well it does suggest you might actually truly believe that most Kenyan athletes are clean.

So is Tim wealthy by Kenyan standards? Or at least this farm he's planting potatoes on must be his long term investment? And those potatoes had to be planted that week? And by him personally??

I mean it doesn't really add up does it? He's such a simple soul that he misses out on the appearance/prize money from one of the biggest meetings of the year to plant potatoes that week. He has just 500 measely follows on Twitter despite being the best in the world at the blue ribband event in Athletics for two years and already talking about breaking El G's EPO WR. You'd think he'd want to boost his profile a bit by running at the Bislett Games. He might get injured next week and never get to the top again. The money he would probably get at Bislett is probably 5 years average wages in Kenya.

El Keniano wrote:

NativeSon wrote:

This is one thing that should be fought relentlessly alongside corruption.

People need to go to jail.

Unlike the Kiprop case has shaken the entire country. Sumgong and Jeptoo weren't big enough. He was held in such high regard that many are still refusing to believe it. The silver lining is the publicity will frighten anyone who might have been tempted to try doping.

However, I am disappointed that a thread about humble, shy and affable Tim has devolved into talk of drugs

I agree - Cheruiyot shouldn't he thrown into a doping conversation. I say give him the benefit of the doubt. Mere suspicion just because he's a Kenyan who runs fast isn't going to cut it in my book.

C'mon man! If Laura Muir decided to skip some competitions to plant some potatoes in the Highlands or tend to some animal things, would you be just as cynical?

Here We Go Again wrote:

C'mon man! If Laura Muir decided to skip some competitions to plant some potatoes in the Highlands or tend to some animal things, would you be just as cynical?

Hmmm...if Jake Wightman had just failed an EPO test and the Scottish athletics team manager charged with running a sophisticated doping regime, I would actually. Actually I would have given up on track and field altogether at that point or at least assumed all Scottish runners were cheating dopeheads. I certainly wouldn't post a thread with a title 'squeeky clean Laua Muir misses biggest night of year to plant some spuds', and then act indignant and scream racist nazi bully when it devolves into doping talk.

As it happens, she studys/works 70 hours a week and still makes it for the important meets.

Let's be fair about this wrote:

I agree - Cheruiyot shouldn't he thrown into a doping conversation. I say give him the benefit of the doubt. Mere suspicion just because he's a Kenyan who runs fast isn't going to cut it in my book.

You're right, a high profile athlete in a country that has, according to their own athletic association and government rampant doping problems, shouldn't be suspect just because he chose to miss two of the biggest and best paying meets to go bush 250kms away from sample collectors and plant potatoes with the odds being that even if they did turn up unannounced he wouldn't be there. I mean it couldn't happen could it that he'd be quietly doping?, oh, hang a on sec, what's this about this Kiprop fella?

Yeah this potatoe business is a prime example of Letsrun at its stupidest.

Skipping a meeting for any reason at all will not avoid drug testing. And elites don't take EPO during the season really, they use it in the off season to build a crazy base. Ask Asbel popped-in-November Kiprop.

And on top of that the half life of EPO is so so so short, a few hours I believe, that Cheryuoit would simply not take it the day or days before Oslo to avoid an in competition positive.

This is a stupid subject.

Here We Go Again wrote:

C'mon man! If Laura Muir decided to skip some competitions to plant some potatoes in the Highlands or tend to some animal things, would you be just as cynical?[/quote]

But Scots don't cheat (well except for Allan Wells and probably Chris "thunder thighs" Hoy and .....)

Speaking of potatoes. Has anybody here tried the purple variety of sweet potatoes. They are amazing. They are also healthy as fukk. They are rarer to find. It would be cool to grow some.

The sweet potato is not a potato. But this is the longest thread about potatoes that I have ever seen, and I pay attention.

Banana Bread wrote:

Speaking of potatoes. Has anybody here tried the purple variety of sweet potatoes. They are amazing. They are also healthy as fukk. They are rarer to find. It would be cool to grow some.

No the orange tastes way better, purple are too dry.

Banana Bread wrote:

Speaking of potatoes. Has anybody here tried the purple variety of sweet potatoes. They are amazing. They are also healthy as fukk. They are rarer to find. It would be cool to grow some.

This is the kind we have in Kenya.

El Keniano wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Speaking of potatoes. Has anybody here tried the purple variety of sweet potatoes. They are amazing. They are also healthy as fukk. They are rarer to find. It would be cool to grow some.

This is the kind we have in Kenya.

thought you said on another thread you WEREN'T KENYAN you just visit there a lot hahaha

If I were a Mod I'd delete this thread in a heart beat.

What a load of crap.

Started because El K likes to show off how much he dislikes the British, transcends into I'm not even sure what.

Bullshit

El Keniano wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Speaking of potatoes. Has anybody here tried the purple variety of sweet potatoes. They are amazing. They are also healthy as fukk. They are rarer to find. It would be cool to grow some.

This is the kind we have in Kenya.

I don't mean the only kind, but the purple sweet potato is only second to the English potato in popularity here in Kenya. My grandmother used to have them for breakfast every day.

ex-runner wrote:

If I were a Mod I'd delete this thread in a heart beat.

What a load of crap.

Started because El K likes to show off how much he dislikes the British, transcends into I'm not even sure what.

Bullshit

I'd never say that. I'm very proud of being Kenyan. It's a bunch of idiots like Coevett and his minions that started the rumour to annoy me and make others think that I'm really posting from an American basement or a British council flat.

^ Was actually responding to m!ndweak, but works for you as well.

whats funny is how ex runner and coevett both argue with you over racism, yet the three of you guys argue with me cause i call out EPO? lolz this place is a zoo

m!ndweak wrote:

whats funny is how ex runner and coevett both argue with you over racism, yet the three of you guys argue with me cause i call out EPO? lolz this place is a zoo

I know that they are both racists. Neither will even deny it.

And I know that you are unstable.

EPO is real but it doesn't take a 3:35 guy to 3:26. Be realistic. And the clean WR is not 3:33. Insanity. Kiprop was probably a 3:28/3:29 guy clean.

I'd give EPO ~3s over 1500m at the top. Huge advantage in this sport but not taking a 3:35 scrub and making him a world beater.

WR should probably be low 3:28 or something.