Mo Farah ran really slop sloppy today!

nofingcluedude wrote:

Mo won, which is all that he cares about. Hopefully the Kenyans and Ethiopians put him in his place in Rio.

You have been hoping for a while now

Nobody has shown from to beat Mo this year.

He always ran like that as well to the op

Ethio wrote:

Metric Miler wrote:

Agreed, it wasn't a fast day. The wind picked up and made things difficult.

Mo could probably run 7:27 or so in better conditions which isn't bad coming off a ~26:50 10k. I don't see Kamoworor running 7:30.

People are quick to compare Farah to Bekele and rubbish his efforts, but the real question remains: who can beat Farah in Rio? It sure ain't Bekele.

They are not comparable. Try rupp vs mo

What are you talking about? Everyone here compares Farah to Bekele.

Who compares Farah to Rupp?

People compare Farah to Bekele to say "look Farah isn't good because Bekele could do xyz". When really the point everyone needs to be talking about is who is going to stop Farah doing the double again? What Bekele did in a bygone era is of no relevance. Everyone gets that Bekele is the favourite runner on letsrun.com but that makes no difference to Farah at all. He is just trying to win gold medals.

The records are untouchable and in 20 years maybe everyone will stop complaining when the then current best distance runner cannot come close to 26:17 because they may start to realise it means nothing. Just like some of the women's world records today.

If you accept the idea that Mo's speed if off, maybe he should reconnect with Rupp for a 2 - 3 weeks and they can try to run a bunch of 400 repeats in 53 like they did before the London Olympics.

Good for Mo that he won. Otherwise he would have been the sloppy second.

The only time that Mo runs close to his fastest is in a setup 1500m with Kiprop. There has not been a single 3k, 5k, or 10k to really push him in good conditions until the final lap since he rose to the top in 2011. He ran a 12:53 but otherwise has run just 7:32, two and a half seconds slower than his training partner did indoors, 26:40s (has he run faster than Rupp at 10k?), and I don't know if he's otherwise broken 13 during this period. 7:16 is ludicrous, but he was surely good for mid 7:20s last year around Monaco if they actually got the kind of pacing for a 3k that was common back in the late 1990s, that is, something around 4:55-58 through 2k. As for speed, the calculator gives 50.xx for a 3:28.8/26:30 or 3:28.8/26:46, and no faster than 7:20 for those times. The calculator, I have always thought, is too generous for 3k times--as to me has been proven by the actual 3k times being substantially slower than the predictions. But I think that Mo, if he has lost any speed (usually in these UK record attempts he just goes for the record but not by much), he'll get it back quickly. He is just transitioning back now to the 1500m speed that he gets for Monaco and the championships every year and getting top speed back comes quite quickly when you train for it, inside of six weeks usually.

Some of you have short memories.

When has Mo's build up ever been 'incredible'?

Last year he ran London (badly by his standards) only a few months before running the summer track (and destroying everyone).

The year before that he was heavily criticised for running the first half of London and looked ragged running that- then he went on to destroy everyone that Summer.

The man is >99% graded performance at every event from 1500m to Half Marathon. He has the most dominant sprint finish we've ever seen.

HE HASN'T LOST A CHAMPIONSHIP TRACK RACE SINCE AUGUST 2011.

Jesus- this guy is a monster. Enjoy the Mo show.

Love ventolin's posts. If youre going to speculate, at least do it with some math.

Thanks for being here for so long venty.

Henk wrote:

Nothing to worry about. Farah just ran 7:32 and sub 27:00 in the span of just 1 week.

It was pretty windy out there, was there to watch the race.

Without the wind this would have been 7:28 or so, that's a really good performance.

In the 10000m he was not flat out, not even in the last 100.

He looked really smooth running 26:53, not working hard like in the 3000m.

Nobody has showen anything that would indicate they can beat faraha right now.

Alamirew, Soi, Longosiwa, gebremeskel, ghebrihiwet and kjelcha are not in the shape the used to be.

Biggest challengers seem to be: Edris in the 5000m and Kamworor and Tanui in the 10000.

Gebremeskel just ran 13:00 closing in a 54 in a non-DL race w/ not top notch competition, and he's been getting progressively better since the beginning on the year

Edris is a real threat and of course Kam is as well

Tanui didn't look the best in the Pre 5k and doesn't have the closing speed to compete

I don't think Karoki will beat Farah, but I think he can push Farah enough to keep Kam's chances alive

I feel like Edris is already in peak shape and that may hurt him come August, so I would say Gebremeskel and Kam have the best shots

Let's not forget if it wasn't for being boxed and getting tripped on the last lap, Gebremeskel probably would have won the 5k in London

There is a full video of Moorcroft setting the previous rec in 1982 running away from Walker, Scott, Maree, Ovett and Wessinghage and outsprinting Maree on the last lap too. Takes lead at 3.50 v 5.01 for Mo.

Jump to around 15.29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYaDnsLeAQ

Back in those days, 1980s, the runners were thin and healthy looking. Farah would make those guys look fat.

doot doot wrote:

Notice the similar shitty grammar and formatting.

Mo worked for his 26:53 and harder for his 7:32. Right now he looks like ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

Unless the chemists/endocrinologists can get Slow Mo dialed for Rio, a hard and fast effort is gonna do the old b@stard in.

Hey doot doot!

Mo Farah did come to the office of a guy with an MS in exercise physiology while he was training in Flagstaff, Az. The guy does some lab testing. He is not a doctor or a hematologist.

Lots of runners train in Flagstaff, Az.

Mo Farah is not a very large person.

Yea. He's pretty fast.

Ger_Miler wrote:

Did anyone else notice that Mo ("Slow") Farah ran really sloppy today?

His is right leg hurt? He is pumping his right arm far too much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7xXGKgdrxg

What happened to the running technique session with John Smith?

Based on a normal training cycle, Mo is probably can down from HA for that 10K and then a 3k a week later, I would not expect him to have much pop in his legs and that race probably felt like a sprint. The GB record is all he was after and he got it. He didn't look great, but if you lined up the best runners in the world right now, 7:30 is about the fastest who are going to get. Sub-27 and 7:32 for a 5k/10k runner says he is still the man to beat. Btw, the Rio 5k &10k won't be that fast no matter what the Kenyans say and Mo's 1500 speed still gives him the advantage. Btw, Kiprop was asked about a Rio double, his response was the 800/1500 would too difficult because of the schedule, the interviewer asked about 1500/5K double and he gave no response. I know he doesn't like the 5K, but it is interesting that he didn't give a response. I know he use to be a good Jr XC runner so I am sure he's capable of running the 5k if he chooses. If Kiprop runs the 5k and the pace is in the 13 teens, no one is going to kick with him.

rjm, looks like Sal needed to make sure Slow Mo's metrics were within the grey zone.

Link to Kiprop interview if it's in English? Very interesting.

Only on letsrun.com would someone criticize Mo Farah, after running a WL and NR, as running 'sloppy'. ONLY on letsrun.com

P wrote:

Only on letsrun.com would someone criticize Mo Farah, after running a WL and NR, as running 'sloppy'. ONLY on letsrun.com

Please go watch the race.

too juicy wrote:

Good for Mo that he won. Otherwise he would have been the sloppy second.

LOL

POD

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P wrote:

Only on letsrun.com would someone criticize Mo Farah, after running a WL and NR, as running 'sloppy'. ONLY on letsrun.com

LOL the hate is real around here

few of them are already on high blood pressure medication thanks to Mo's winning streak

tony the tiger wrote:

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P wrote:

Only on letsrun.com would someone criticize Mo Farah, after running a WL and NR, as running 'sloppy'. ONLY on letsrun.com

LOL the hate is real around here

few of them are already on high blood pressure medication thanks to Mo's winning streak

True. You, ventulo, Slow Mo, and "A Secret Man, Yes" are actually taking years off my life.

Metric Miler wrote:

The records are untouchable and in 20 years maybe everyone will stop complaining when the then current best distance runner cannot come close to 26:17 because they may start to realise it means nothing. Just like some of the women's world records today.

Yeah some of those women's WRs are a joke.

400 - Koch. Come on, 47.60

Krachtochvilova in the 800. Wipe those two

Flojo's 100 and 200 - come on - no one remotely near them

100H Donkova - might go soon

The 10km.

In fact I just went through them to see if there is a chance any of them are remotely near clean.

Dibaba's 1500? Maybe. Her sister's 5km? I think more chance the 1500 is clean, as the testing is constantly getting closer to the taking.

Isinbayeva's PV in 2009? Some chance, though she is Russian, which automatically makes it sus.

Kostadinova's HJ? 1987, big drug era.

Shot and disc by East German/Russian in 1987-1988. No way.