Here's a clip of him clicking off a sub-29:00 road 10K on the opening leg of a Japanese high-school ekiden in 2002. He was 15 or 16 years old (1st year of high school in Japan).
Here's a clip of him clicking off a sub-29:00 road 10K on the opening leg of a Japanese high-school ekiden in 2002. He was 15 or 16 years old (1st year of high school in Japan).
I don't believe Kenyan ages... he looks like he was 21-22
And here he is running ~28:02 (13:58 at 5K) in a different ekiden, also in 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F8LpiKAetg
Looks pretty baby-faced to me, but then he always did.
Good lord. Stop spreading these soy-drenched myths about godlike Kenyan "teenagers."
At this point Sammy was in his 20s and already loaded to the dorsals.
Lest we forget "16" year-old ran a bunch of forgettable races in Japan
Who was his coach in Japan? And what did his training look like in Japan?
Phantasy Star wrote:
Good lord. Stop spreading these soy-drenched myths about godlike Kenyan "teenagers."
At this point Sammy was in his 20s and already loaded to the dorsals.
Soy. Soy. Soy. Soy. Soy. 20s. Soy. SOY. 28!!! SOY. SOY. SOY!! SOYYYYY!!!! SOYYYYYY!!!! JAKOB IS JESUS CHRIST REBORN!!!!
Taro wrote:
Here's a clip of him clicking off a sub-29:00 road 10K on the opening leg of a Japanese high-school ekiden in 2002. He was 15 or 16 years old (1st year of high school in Japan).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEjEvs-CsI
no one is going to forget Sammy Wanjiru.
Junior World Records in 10k (26:41) and half marathon (59:16) and Olympic marathon record holder (2:06:32).
Possibly the most talented runner ever. Liked booze and guns more than running, sadly.
no one gonna forget wrote:
Taro wrote:
Here's a clip of him clicking off a sub-29:00 road 10K on the opening leg of a Japanese high-school ekiden in 2002. He was 15 or 16 years old (1st year of high school in Japan).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEjEvs-CsIno one is going to forget Sammy Wanjiru.
Junior World Records in 10k (26:41) and half marathon (59:16) and Olympic marathon record holder (2:06:32).
Possibly the most talented runner ever. Liked booze, guns and running.
Sammy Wanjiru was the fastest libertarian runner ever.
no one gonna forget wrote:
no one is going to forget Sammy Wanjiru.
Junior World Records in 10k (26:41) and half marathon (59:16) and Olympic marathon record holder (2:06:32).
Possibly the most talented runner ever. Liked booze and guns more than running, sadly.
Liked women too as he had three wives at the same time, and a girlfriend plus five kids!
WTF, Sammy's dead?, I only just found out Marco Pantani, this is going to ruin my whole weekend. :(
Phantasy Star wrote:
Good lord. Stop spreading these soy-drenched myths about godlike Kenyan "teenagers."
At this point Sammy was in his 20s and already loaded to the dorsals.
Really!?
And I was just to coming to terms with the fact that global warming is a Chinese hoax, Barack Obama is a Kenya-born Muslim, and America may no longer be the greatest country in the universe.
This is just too much.
who cares???? wrote:
Oh, you do, and you know it. Or you would, if you could even imagine running half as fast as he did.
Depressed. wrote:
WTF, Sammy's dead?, I only just found out Marco Pantani, this is going to ruin my whole weekend. :(
Me too. Remember when Armstrong let Pantani win the stage at Ventoux?
https://youtu.be/_bMBTRqctF0?t=1812no one gonna forget wrote:
no one is going to forget Sammy Wanjiru.
Junior World Records in 10k (26:41) and half marathon (59:16) and Olympic marathon record holder (2:06:32).
Possibly the most talented runner ever. Liked booze and guns more than running, sadly.
And renowned biomechanicist Michael Yessis really liked Sammy's style:
https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20825768/an-analysis-of-running-technique/He was 16 years old. He was clean. He was that good. It might be hard for a lot of people to accept that but it does not make it less true.
Broken record wrote:
Phantasy Star wrote:
Good lord. Stop spreading these soy-drenched myths about godlike Kenyan "teenagers."
At this point Sammy was in his 20s and already loaded to the dorsals.
Soy. Soy. Soy. Soy. Soy. 20s. Soy. SOY. 28!!! SOY. SOY. SOY!! SOYYYYY!!!! SOYYYYYY!!!! JAKOB IS JESUS CHRIST REBORN!!!!
Right? Why the hell do these morons think “soy” is an insult?
Phantasy Star et al. :
Thousands of deep-red American farmers (i.e. your favorite type of people) depend on soy to make a living. Every piece of chicken you’ve ever eaten was fed soy. Plenty in pork and beef, too. Would you use “corn-drenched” as an insult? Because that’s how stupid you sound.
Thread not complete without https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-SxTnqCmLA
Ehso wrote:
Right? Why the hell do these morons think “soy” is an insult?
Phantasy Star et al. :
Thousands of deep-red American farmers (i.e. your favorite type of people) depend on soy to make a living. Every piece of chicken you’ve ever eaten was fed soy. Plenty in pork and beef, too. Would you use “corn-drenched” as an insult? Because that’s how stupid you sound.
So that's it? "Soy" is the new juvenile epithet of the right-wing decerebrates ? When did that replace the adjectival use of "DemocRAT" in their programming?
I had no idea. Guess I've been an expat for too long. I suppose the "Good Lord" piousness should have been a clue, though.
rom wrote:
Thread not complete without
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-SxTnqCmLA
I like this one, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96mPf57_qUI especially like 1:30, when he jolts the other top runners out of their group snooze by bolting past them like they're walking.
And at 4:48, the race well in hand, he looks like a F1 race car wheeling through that little town.
He sure made it look like fun.