I was watching a replay of EK's Berlin run on the treadmill last night after work, and put 2 and 2 together! His last remaining pacer was Josphat Boit of Arkansas legend. Not sure how I missed that.
I was watching a replay of EK's Berlin run on the treadmill last night after work, and put 2 and 2 together! His last remaining pacer was Josphat Boit of Arkansas legend. Not sure how I missed that.
Different Josphat Boit, buddy.
Nope.
Not the same University of Arkansas Boit. Arkansas' Boit is American and he graduated in 2006. Kipchoge's pacer is Kenyan and has a DOB of 1995. This means that if he was the one(Arkansas's Boit), he would have graduated at the age of 11 years which is ridiculous.
Khalid Hussein Khalid wrote:
Not the same University of Arkansas Boit. Arkansas' Boit is American and he graduated in 2006. Kipchoge's pacer is Kenyan and has a DOB of 1995. This means that if he was the one(Arkansas's Boit), he would have graduated at the age of 11 years which is ridiculous.
Which according to what I've learned on letsrun, being 11 in Kenya is actually about 21 years old.
Sand Dunes wrote:
Khalid Hussein Khalid wrote:
Not the same University of Arkansas Boit. Arkansas' Boit is American and he graduated in 2006. Kipchoge's pacer is Kenyan and has a DOB of 1995. This means that if he was the one(Arkansas's Boit), he would have graduated at the age of 11 years which is ridiculous.
Which according to what I've learned on letsrun, being 11 in Kenya is actually about 21 years old.
You have derailed off the course, buddy! That is not what the OP is asking or interested in.
Khalid Hussein Khalid wrote:
Sand Dunes wrote:
Which according to what I've learned on letsrun, being 11 in Kenya is actually about 21 years old.
You have derailed off the course, buddy! That is not what the OP is asking or interested in.
Just saying, it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11.
Sand Dunes wrote:
Khalid Hussein Khalid wrote:
You have derailed off the course, buddy! That is not what the OP is asking or interested in.
Just saying, it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11.
That's right mate. Those darned age cheating Kenyans with their receding hairlines, taking the rightful place of our students and graduating before puberty!
Well, crap. I thought I'd stumbled onto something. Thanks for setting me straight.
I don't know if you want to be ironic, or if you are a real idiot. I suppose you want to be ironic....
Josphat Boit (the full name is Josphat Kiptoo Boit) is a new athlete, with a PB in HM of 59'19" in his first and only HM run till now, who started his activity in 2017, running a race inside the group of Police, after only one month of training (he was already a policeman). He ran 5 km on the road in 15'02", and two weeks later went for his first "official" competition, in Nakuru (5000m), on 5th and 6th of May : 14'25"4 the first day in the heats, 14'24"8 the next day in the final.
The chief of Police (Isaac Kirwa) sent him in Iten for training with my group (where John Litei, my assistant coach, works full time). He was able in short time to run 13'43", and I told him to move to longer distances, because on track didn't have real chances.
After a full winter in training (he is very serious, and was in the camp with continuity, such as Daniel Kipchumba), he ran his first HM in Verbania (15th April) finishing 3rd in 59'19". The next race was in Valencia (2nd June), when he won 15 km with a crazy interpretation (alone from the first meter, with 13'30" the first 5 km !), finishing in 42'02".
Few days later, for fun, he ran the heat of National Championships on Track in Nairobi (21st June) in 5000m with his new PB of 13'38"26, without running the final, and from that time we looked for pacing Eliud Kipchoge during his WR attempt in Berlin.
In Berlin, after 15 km only Josphat remained with Eliud, and he paced till 25.5 km. The plan was to arrive till 30 km in 1h27', but Josphat was not able to do this because Eliud asked him to increase with continuity the speed (he went at 30 km in 1h26'45"). However, Josphat could be able to run, with even pace, 1h27' in 30 km, that is the same speed of his 5000m in Nakuru in 2017 (14'25" is 2'53" pace, exactly as 1h27' in 30 km), becoming able to increase his "specific endurance" at the speed of the WR of HM from 5 km to 30 km in a period of training of 16 months !
Next year, Josphat will move to full marathon, probably debutting in Hamburg at the end of April.
Follow this name, can do something important in the next years !
Can you please share his winter training that enabled him to run 59'19 for the half and 42'02 for 15K?
Renato Canova wrote:
I don't know if you want to be ironic, or if you are a real idiot. I suppose you want to be ironic....
Josphat Boit (the full name is Josphat Kiptoo Boit) is a new athlete, with a PB in HM of 59'19" in his first and only HM run till now, who started his activity in 2017, running a race inside the group of Police, after only one month of training (he was already a policeman). He ran 5 km on the road in 15'02", and two weeks later went for his first "official" competition, in Nakuru (5000m), on 5th and 6th of May : 14'25"4 the first day in the heats, 14'24"8 the next day in the final.
The chief of Police (Isaac Kirwa) sent him in Iten for training with my group (where John Litei, my assistant coach, works full time). He was able in short time to run 13'43", and I told him to move to longer distances, because on track didn't have real chances.
After a full winter in training (he is very serious, and was in the camp with continuity, such as Daniel Kipchumba), he ran his first HM in Verbania (15th April) finishing 3rd in 59'19". The next race was in Valencia (2nd June), when he won 15 km with a crazy interpretation (alone from the first meter, with 13'30" the first 5 km !), finishing in 42'02".
Few days later, for fun, he ran the heat of National Championships on Track in Nairobi (21st June) in 5000m with his new PB of 13'38"26, without running the final, and from that time we looked for pacing Eliud Kipchoge during his WR attempt in Berlin.
In Berlin, after 15 km only Josphat remained with Eliud, and he paced till 25.5 km. The plan was to arrive till 30 km in 1h27', but Josphat was not able to do this because Eliud asked him to increase with continuity the speed (he went at 30 km in 1h26'45"). However, Josphat could be able to run, with even pace, 1h27' in 30 km, that is the same speed of his 5000m in Nakuru in 2017 (14'25" is 2'53" pace, exactly as 1h27' in 30 km), becoming able to increase his "specific endurance" at the speed of the WR of HM from 5 km to 30 km in a period of training of 16 months !
Next year, Josphat will move to full marathon, probably debutting in Hamburg at the end of April.
Follow this name, can do something important in the next years !
In no way was I trying to be "ironic". I simply thought I'd stumbled onto something. You know, I've defended you for a long time, Renato; but that all just ended with your rude comment. Kiss my @ss.
Sorry for you if you didn't want to be ironic. In this case, somebody thinking that "it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11" CAN ONLY BE AN IDIOT. And I don't need any defense from somebody that has the brain of a hen.
Renato Canova wrote:
Sorry for you if you didn't want to be ironic. In this case, somebody thinking that "it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11" CAN ONLY BE AN IDIOT. And I don't need any defense from somebody that has the brain of a hen.
I apologize for my comment to kiss my @ss; but wow, not cool, Renato. You just can't speak that way to people- it's not right. The announcer even lists Boit's pb for half marathon at 61:33 on the broadcast. So, I looked up Boit's pb from Arkansas on IAAF, and that's what it was listed as. I didn't even think to look up the birth dates.
Dickson, I don't speak about the fact you didn't know Josphat Boit, and you didn't know that there were 2 different Josphat Boit. This was a common mistake, because a lot of Kenyans have similar name, and it's very easy to make confusion.
My comment was about "it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11" .
If this was something ironic, I could accept (also if I don't agree with people joking about every African situation without knowing anything of the local system of living) the comment as something thinking to be funny.
But, if you say that you were serious, I can't have a good evaluation about the level of your brain, and I was not rude, only correct about my thought regarding you.
Yes, sometimes African runners can have a small difference between their real age and the official age in their passport : this is something happening several times, especially in the past, when there was not the informatic net in the Countries.
But to think at differences of 8-10 years is really something crazy, and doesn't show the ability to think in rational way.
I think you can apologyze, not with me, but with all Kenya and all Africa.
Sorry, I saw that the comment was not from you, but from Sand Dunes.
Of course, all what I said was not for a exchange of athlete, but for that comment.
I apologyze with you, while I confirm all what I wrote, dedicated to that guy (maybe he really was ironic...)
Renato Canova wrote:
Sorry, I saw that the comment was not from you, but from Sand Dunes.
Of course, all what I said was not for a exchange of athlete, but for that comment.
I apologyze with you, while I confirm all what I wrote, dedicated to that guy (maybe he really was ironic...)
Eh, apology accepted- thank you.
Renato Canova wrote:
Sorry for you if you didn't want to be ironic. In this case, somebody thinking that "it is entirely possible for a Kenyan to graduate college by time he is 11" CAN ONLY BE AN IDIOT. And I don't need any defense from somebody that has the brain of a hen.
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Renato Canova wrote:
Sorry, I saw that the comment was not from you, but from Sand Dunes.
Of course, all what I said was not for a exchange of athlete, but for that comment.
I apologyze with you, while I confirm all what I wrote, dedicated to that guy (maybe he really was ironic...)
Just to clarify my comments, I was just joking and being ironic.
Editor's Note: The OP is likely troll.