A lot of people dismissed the claims Kipchoge was much older than he says, because it didn’t make sense for a guy in his 40s to be so fast. But we know Bekele just ran a very impressive marathon at 42. Canova also said somewhere that Tadesse Abraham is actually 44, which means he ran 2:05:01 at 44 not 41.
So how old is Kipchoge? He was 5 years below Lagat in school which would make him 45 or 44. Meaning he ran 2:01 at 44? Does this change everything we thought about prime marathon age?
Ageman wrote:
A lot of people dismissed the claims Kipchoge was much older than he says, because it didn’t make sense for a guy in his 40s to be so fast. But we know Bekele just ran a very impressive marathon at 42. Canova also said somewhere that Tadesse Abraham is actually 44, which means he ran 2:05:01 at 44 not 41.
So how old is Kipchoge? He was 5 years below Lagat in school which would make him 45 or 44. Meaning he ran 2:01 at 44? Does this change everything we thought about prime marathon age?
Far more likely he is the age he says he is. Look at how fast kids are running these days now that they train. Kenya/ethipia were just a couple decades ahead in getting young kids training hard…
Early in his career he was much older than he claimed. This slowly evolved until now he is much younger than he claims.
Ageman wrote:
A lot of people dismissed the claims Kipchoge was much older than he says, because it didn’t make sense for a guy in his 40s to be so fast. But we know Bekele just ran a very impressive marathon at 42. Canova also said somewhere that Tadesse Abraham is actually 44, which means he ran 2:05:01 at 44 not 41.
So how old is Kipchoge? He was 5 years below Lagat in school which would make him 45 or 44. Meaning he ran 2:01 at 44? Does this change everything we thought about prime marathon age?
Okay,
For the furtherance of your goal (or idea for that matter), let's just say he is 49 and turns 50 this November.
Then what?
Kenyans usually say they are 7 years younger than they really are, some kenyans I lived with visiting Kenya told me.
evolved wrote:
Early in his career he was much older than he claimed. This slowly evolved until now he is much younger than he claims.
Is anyone old enough to remember Joe Nzua(sp)?
He claimed to be in his 20's then all of a sudden was claiming to be a Master and breaking Master's records- the timeline didn't add up.
Maybe the only person who really knows is Eliud's mom.
My earliest memory is JFK's funeral- I was 3. I don't remember my birth, as traumatic as it was, I almost died I guess. That's what they told me.
Half of the Kenyans I manage are 3-6 years older than their what their passports indicate.
They tell me Kipchoge is 46 years old.
Kipchoge exists outside the puny constraints of "time"... He simply was, and is, and shall be
Joe Louis Eliud Kipchoge 137 years old. Frank Sinatra told me.
He looks about a couple of years older. He looked a bit old too when he first came up.
evolved wrote:
Early in his career he was much older than he claimed. This slowly evolved until now he is much younger than he claims.
He was a precocious ager that’s slowed down since.
Most Kenyan elites and U.S. elites are running backwards from age (27 to 29), 100m to Marathon.
I saw him in person in 2015, and took a picture together. He didn't look older than declared