I ran across the following data while looking over past notes in my iPhone. Wanted to see how the marathon year 2024 compared with 2018 after reading… Read more “MARATHON – 2024 vs 2018”
Tag: Kenenisa Bekele
WHO IS THE WOMEN’S DISTANCE GOAT?
Coming off this year’s spring marathon season, I recently penned an article debating who was the GOAT male distance runner in history, the greatest of all time.… Read more “WHO IS THE WOMEN’S DISTANCE GOAT?”
WHO IS THE GOAT? UPDATED APRIL 2024
Considering 41-year-old Kenenisa Bekele‘s 2:04:15 second place finish in today’s 2024 TCS London Marathon, I believe the Ethiopian legend strengthened his case for GOAT status in the… Read more “WHO IS THE GOAT? UPDATED APRIL 2024”
2023 MARATHON YEAR – MEN
Honolulu, HI—Except for this weekend’s 51st Honolulu Marathon, which has rarely seen sub-2:10 men’s performances due to the warm conditions and double climb over Diamond Head at… Read more “2023 MARATHON YEAR – MEN”
A BIT OF A PONDER
We all know what we believe, what our gut tells us, and what we hope will be. But before we get too comfortable with even consensus reality… Read more “A BIT OF A PONDER”
CONSIDERING THE 2023 LONDON MARATHON
Not much, really, to add to all the other analysis of April 23rd’s remarkable 2023 TCS London Marathon. Except, gee whiz, for a once feared, myth-making distance,… Read more “CONSIDERING THE 2023 LONDON MARATHON”
GEARED FOR THE DISTANCE – NO WORLD RECORD IN BERLIN 2021
What effort for this pace? That is the question every athlete has to answer in the marathon. And when we control the effort, funny how that dovetails… Read more “GEARED FOR THE DISTANCE – NO WORLD RECORD IN BERLIN 2021”
IT’S AN AGE-OLD QUESTION
Taken on its merits, Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon career will have been the bridge spanning the 2:00:00 marathon barrier. After his 2:02:37 win in London 2019, his top… Read more “IT’S AN AGE-OLD QUESTION”
CHEPTEGEI’S MARATHON FUTURE
With World Athletics scrapping the 5000m and 10,000m from its Diamond League circuit, it has fallen to individual event organizers to maintain allegiance to these historic… Read more “CHEPTEGEI’S MARATHON FUTURE”
RIPPLE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE 2020 FALL MARATHON SEASON
For a long, long time, we have marked the passage of time by the designations Anno Domini (A.D.) and Before Christ (B.C.), with A.D. first coming into… Read more “RIPPLE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE 2020 FALL MARATHON SEASON”
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