The man has incredible speed and a very thin body, why didn’t he go for longer distances? Do you think he could have?
The man has incredible speed and a very thin body, why didn’t he go for longer distances? Do you think he could have?
He was waiting for Jeremy Wariner to move up to the 800
He ran a 13:03 5k and a 7:25 3k off of 1500m training. He is one of the few 90s runner I think was clean. A very important lesson runners can learn from him is take their easy runs easy. He often jogged at a 10 minute mile. He probably could've went sub 2:07.
Maybe because he didn't want to move up that far in distance. Did he ever run a track 10,000m race?
I've never run a marathon either because I didn't have the desire to do one despite having run under (once) 30 minutes for 10K.
Noureddine morceli wrote:
The man has incredible speed and a very thin body, why didn’t he go for longer distances? Do you think he could have?
We know of a modern fellow that has run 3:28 1500 multiple times and also a 2:06 marathon. Those 1500 performances probably came without even training full time to be a 1500 meter runner.
So maybe. It has been done, but of course most likely he would not.
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
He ran a 13:03 5k and a 7:25 3k off of 1500m training. He is one of the few 90s runner I think was clean. A very important lesson runners can learn from him is take their easy runs easy. He often jogged at a 10 minute mile. He probably could've went sub 2:07.
Hahahahaha!!! CLEAN?!?! I'm not even sure that guy even washed behind his ears. He was the prototype for El Gerrouj.
Rui Silva (POR),
3:30.07 1500 metres (2002) Age 25
27:53.55 10,000 metres (2011)
1:02:40 Half marathon (2012)
2:12:16 Marathon (2013) Age 36
Not astonishing times, but competent ones given the age at Rui Silva decided to take a shot at longer distances.
Hold the line wrote:
Rui Silva (POR),
3:30.07 1500 metres (2002) Age 25
27:53.55 10,000 metres (2011)
1:02:40 Half marathon (2012)
2:12:16 Marathon (2013) Age 36
Not astonishing times, but competent ones given the age at Rui Silva decided to take a shot at longer distances.
Come on, that's not even in the same league as one Mr. Gebreselassie.
3:31 1500 meters, 1998, age 25
58:55 half marathon, 2006, age 33
2:03:59 marathon, 2008, age 35 (also ran 27:06 10k in Olympics)