Is Bernard Lagat aiming for the 2020 Olympic marathon?

No

Sure about that?

That’s rad! I hope the team is Rupp, Lagat, and Ultra Thonner!

Ghhfguu wrote:

Sure about that?

Yes he is not. I hope he runs the trials for the heck of it though.

No he is yes, because no he’s not.

800 Metres 1:46.00 Berlin (GER) 10 AUG 2003

1000 Metres 2:16.18 Gateshead (GBR) 31 AUG 2008

1500 Metres 3:26.34 Bruxelles (BEL) 24 AUG 2001

One Mile 3:47.28 Roma (ITA) 29 JUN 2001

2000 Metres 4:55.49 Stockholm (SWE) 30 JUL 1999

3000 Metres 7:29.00 Rieti (ITA) 29 AUG 2010 AR

Two Miles 8:12.45 Eugene, OR (USA) 08 JUN 2008

5000 Metres 12:53.60 Monaco (MON) 22 JUL 2011 AR

10,000 Metres 27:49.35 Palo Alto (USA) 01 MAY 2016

5 Kilometres 13:19 Carlsbad, CA (USA) 30 MAR 2014

10 Kilometres 27:48 Manchester (GBR) 10 MAY 2015

Half Marathon 1:02:00 Houston, TX (USA) 14 JAN 2018

Distance Medley Relay 9:15.63 Philadelphia (USA) 29 APR 2006

1:46 and 1:02.00 !!

steeple Marathon needed

bet someone can dig up a 400 time for him as a Kenyan youth

wineturtle wrote:

steeple Marathon needed

the idea of this event terrifies me

2020 Soren Knudsen

winnr1 wrote:

wineturtle wrote:

steeple Marathon needed

the idea of this event terrifies me

That's how I read it too. Someone make it happen.

EPO is one hell of a drug

Bernie Legit wrote:

That’s rad! I hope the team is Rupp, Lagat, and Ultra Thonner!

I would not be shocked if two of the three made the team.

Marathon Steeplechase wrote:

winnr1 wrote:

the idea of this event terrifies me

That's how I read it too. Someone make it happen.

Will it have to be on the track?

Yghgvg wrote:

My guess is that has to be his goal with continuing road races.

Doubtful. Even on EPO dosages that equal his heyday of use when he was battling with El G won't help his old legs get him on the team.

Old Ultra Guy wrote:

Marathon Steeplechase wrote:

That's how I read it too. Someone make it happen.

Will it have to be on the track?

It should be done on a xc course.

winnr1 wrote:

wineturtle wrote:

steeple Marathon needed

the idea of this event terrifies me

Obviously I did not intend to suggest a new even but extending the idea to running a marathon hill-and-dale across farm land jumping fences, leaping over bubbling brooks, jumping stone walls onto one lane roads and back over a wall to the pasture like a fox hunt would add a serious degree of difficulty to marathon running.

Heck let's put some grazing cows, no, let's make them bulls, stock the streams with piranha ...

wineturtle wrote:

800 Metres 1:46.00 Berlin (GER) 10 AUG 2003

1000 Metres 2:16.18 Gateshead (GBR) 31 AUG 2008

1500 Metres 3:26.34 Bruxelles (BEL) 24 AUG 2001

One Mile 3:47.28 Roma (ITA) 29 JUN 2001

2000 Metres 4:55.49 Stockholm (SWE) 30 JUL 1999

3000 Metres 7:29.00 Rieti (ITA) 29 AUG 2010 AR

Two Miles 8:12.45 Eugene, OR (USA) 08 JUN 2008

5000 Metres 12:53.60 Monaco (MON) 22 JUL 2011 AR

10,000 Metres 27:49.35 Palo Alto (USA) 01 MAY 2016

5 Kilometres 13:19 Carlsbad, CA (USA) 30 MAR 2014

10 Kilometres 27:48 Manchester (GBR) 10 MAY 2015

Half Marathon 1:02:00 Houston, TX (USA) 14 JAN 2018

Distance Medley Relay 9:15.63 Philadelphia (USA) 29 APR 2006

1:46 and 1:02.00 !!

steeple Marathon needed

bet someone can dig up a 400 time for him as a Kenyan youth

That 800m time just shows how good EPO is

Nobody has run 3:26 clean

Getting high wrote:

EPO is one hell of a drug

1:46 but 3:26? C'mon, Bernie...

Funny. I just posted the exact same thought.

Getting high wrote:

EPO is one hell of a drug

#2thgills