I’ve gone from big Kipchoge fan to disliking him

imagine watching this incredible athletic achievement and coming away bitter like this. makes you look like a jealous loser FYI

MikeMach1977 wrote:

Why should we be impressed?

Go to the roads today and for as long as you can hold this pace. Then realize the pace that just humbled your body/mind/spirit into saying "if you go at this pace you will die!" was just run by a human being on this planet for a marathon and he was jumping around after it. If that doesn't humble you at all, then maybe you just have some really deep seeded issues. There are things all around you that people spent enormous amounts of time creating and perfecting. Because you didn't have to do anything to help create it, but still get to use it (computer, phone, electrical in your house, etc), you don't appreciate that time spent. That is what makes your life what it is. Sport is a part of this human competitive spirit/drive. What Kipchoge just did was a piece perfection as we currently know it. It will force people to reconsider what is possible, which in turn will drive people in not just sport but whatever human endeavor they participate in (math, computer science, film, etc). Our lives will become a little more magical because of it. Society always stands on the shoulders of giants who are pushing the bounds of reality forward.[/quote]

Full stop.

There is nothing impressive in Kipchoge today's performance.

Everyone knew it was possible. Kipchoge is a great champion who has done a fantastic job in pushing marathon further. i don't discuss it.

But what he did today was quite disappointing. He took a short cut, an easy road toward a mythical goal because he wanted to be the first to achieve it, he did it the wrong way. He stopped following the rule of the sport and went the road of the scientific experiment , the road of a real TV freakshow.

He would have entered the legend if he did it in a true race and can still do it. But this event was freakshow and this record will stay unrecognised because it was not done the proper way.

You are a complete and utter wanker!

That makes you a complete idiot

Casual fans are impressed by his performance. But in these conditions Bekele could have run sub2. If you doubt Bekele then Wilsang kipsang who was 2:03 in fucking adidas shoes. Imagine kipsang running in nike next% . And did you see the splits. It was like 2:50min/km constant. Kipchoge didn't even have to calculate the pace and finishing time here. The two time Bekele missed the WR was because he didn't know when to increase the pace.

Some random bloke wrote:

It surprises me how in just a couple weeks I’ve become more of a Bekele fan. This second attempt with even more enhanced shoes and continuing to say that this is for humanity? Humans aren’t limited? Then why not break 2 in Berlin or even NYC? I confess I didn’t know until watching the INEOS documentaries that he spends so much time away from his family and wanted a wife that was “not as talkative.”

"Enhanced shoes"? Lol! Most of you are too young to remember that similar things were said about the Nike Air mid-soles in the early 1980's. Yeah, that lasted a long time.

EssosLandi wrote:

He took a short cut, an easy road toward a mythical goal because he wanted to be the first to achieve it, he did it the wrong way. He stopped following the rule of the sport and went the road of the scientific experiment , the road of a real TV freakshow.

I do somewhat agree with at least this part of the pushback. I'm certainly impressed, but I think it sort of takes away the excitement and screws over whoever does eventually do it during a real race (although that could very well be Kipchoge). It would have been nice to break the barrier with no strings attached.

EssosLandi wrote:

Nope wrote:

Dude runs 1.59.40 and letsrun trolls are still not impressed.

Tough crowd.

Why should we be impressed?

He ran a sub 2 marathon, if you don't think that's impressive you are an idiot.

Some random bloke wrote:

It surprises me how in just a couple weeks I’ve become more of a Bekele fan. This second attempt with even more enhanced shoes and continuing to say that this is for humanity? Humans aren’t limited? Then why not break 2 in Berlin or even NYC? I confess I didn’t know until watching the INEOS documentaries that he spends so much time away from his family and wanted a wife that was “not as talkative.”

Nobody cares about what you like or dislike. We wish you were not as talkative.

green crocs wrote:

EssosLandi wrote:

He took a short cut, an easy road toward a mythical goal because he wanted to be the first to achieve it, he did it the wrong way. He stopped following the rule of the sport and went the road of the scientific experiment , the road of a real TV freakshow.

I do somewhat agree with at least this part of the pushback. I'm certainly impressed, but I think it sort of takes away the excitement and screws over whoever does eventually do it during a real race (although that could very well be Kipchoge). It would have been nice to break the barrier with no strings attached.

Casual fans will never understand the importance of the first sub 2 in real race. For them it will be just another WR

green crocs wrote:

EssosLandi wrote:

He took a short cut, an easy road toward a mythical goal because he wanted to be the first to achieve it, he did it the wrong way. He stopped following the rule of the sport and went the road of the scientific experiment , the road of a real TV freakshow.

I do somewhat agree with at least this part of the pushback. I'm certainly impressed, but I think it sort of takes away the excitement and screws over whoever does eventually do it during a real race (although that could very well be Kipchoge). It would have been nice to break the barrier with no strings attached.

To be clear, I am not a Kipchoge critic.

His World record is for me much more impressive than his Vienna Ineos exhibition. I just don't like the artificial set up, the fake conditions. I like real races.

That’s because you are a contrarian

Amateur Runner wrote:

Casual fans are impressed by his performance. But in these conditions Bekele could have run sub2. If you doubt Bekele then Wilsang kipsang who was 2:03 in fucking adidas shoes. Imagine kipsang running in nike next% . And did you see the splits. It was like 2:50min/km constant. Kipchoge didn't even have to calculate the pace and finishing time here. The two time Bekele missed the WR was because he didn't know when to increase the pace.

This is classic r3tardation that is common here. It checks all of the boxes. Nice work, troll.

EssosLandi wrote:

green crocs wrote:

I do somewhat agree with at least this part of the pushback. I'm certainly impressed, but I think it sort of takes away the excitement and screws over whoever does eventually do it during a real race (although that could very well be Kipchoge). It would have been nice to break the barrier with no strings attached.

To be clear, I am not a Kipchoge critic.

His World record is for me much more impressive than his Vienna Ineos exhibition. I just don't like the artificial set up, the fake conditions. I like real races.

Do you think for one second anyone cares what you “like”?

It's a freak show. That's why it doesn't count as an official record.

The argument of "why don't you do it then" is nonsense as we are not elite athletes.

Now get stuffed.

EssosLandi wrote:

green crocs wrote:

I do somewhat agree with at least this part of the pushback. I'm certainly impressed, but I think it sort of takes away the excitement and screws over whoever does eventually do it during a real race (although that could very well be Kipchoge). It would have been nice to break the barrier with no strings attached.

To be clear, I am not a Kipchoge critic.

His World record is for me much more impressive than his Vienna Ineos exhibition. I just don't like the artificial set up, the fake conditions. I like real races.

They are not fake conditions. They are as real as any condition in any race. They were optimized and very dissimilar to most race conditions. But there is nothing fake about it. Fake means something very different.

I don’t understand the lack of comprehension here. Nobody is claiming that this is the same as an actual competitive marathon race. That’s the whole point. This is an experiment to see if it could be done under optimal conditions. Nobody is hiding that or claiming otherwise. Why on earth would anyone in their right mind object to trying this?

People have been running this distance for a very long time, obviously, and nobody has broken 2 in a race so why the F not try it this way?

I think there are a lot of people here on this site with reasonably serious mental and emotional problems.

Seek spiritual and mental heath wrote:

I don’t understand the lack of comprehension here. Nobody is claiming that this is the same as an actual competitive marathon race. That’s the whole point. This is an experiment to see if it could be done under optimal conditions. Nobody is hiding that or claiming otherwise. Why on earth would anyone in their right mind object to trying this?

People have been running this distance for a very long time, obviously, and nobody has broken 2 in a race so why the F not try it this way?

I think there are a lot of people here on this site with reasonably serious mental and emotional problems.

Right. If you're (not you specifically but I mean you as in anyone) that bitter a person that you need to come on here to troll or even worse, if you actually resent the run, I feel sorry for you. That was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in terms of human athletic achievement and the fact that thousands of people came out to watch and dozens of other world class athletes came out to help him and that they all achieved what they set out to do. If you can't just feel happy for them and inspired at what just happened, I feel bad for you.

Kipchoge's the marathon GOAT. He was yesterday but after today, he's distanced himself from Bekele and everyone else even more. I hope he goes after New York and Boston, next and finishes the major circuit.

I don't like Kipchoge. Too quiet, yet sincere when he talks. Gimme Antonio Brown any day! Now, he's the definition of a modern, charismatic superstar!

Now, if Kipchoge killed a man (not a lion, like most Kenyan distance runners), I'd reconsider backing him. His resume needs a little controversy to it. Maybe even just a urunating in public arrest.