Athletics 2024 (Mod note #869)

This is just a hunch, I could be way off, but I get the feeling they're very naive about cover ups. I wouldn't be surprised if many richer (savvier??) Western countries are doing the same but the athletes, associations, coaches.... they're just smarter and better at covering their tracks. Many of the Kenyan athletes come from very humble and poor backgrounds and I wonder how much some of them know about what exactly they're doing. I hope that doesn't sound racist, though it probably does sound condescending.

Looks like Brian Fay is on the Melbourne marathon start list, assume he's pacing?

Still on for it just went through 30k. In 1.31

Edit to say 2nd place is 4 minutes behind and just outside world record pace

Sub 2:10 for the lady, unbelievable.

Held on like a demon the last two miles.

Nuts stuff really.

Not just athletics either.

Track and Field is small potatoes compared to soccer for instance. While the top track and field guys might get maybe half a million (?) a year, the top soccer players earn that per week, and they are now playing like 60 or 70 games per year.

Are we really expected to believe they are not using PEDS? Of course they are. It's just covered up and a blind eye turned to it, there is no culture of penalizing it and no desire to look under the rocks to see the worms and snakes (same as tennis).

Too much money at stake.

So you don't think the new carbon plate pebax foam shoes, better training practices and better nutrition strategies helped, even just a small bit.

Or you don't think that someone taking "magic substance" doesn't give an advantage ?

Hiko Tonosa ran a marathon national record in Dublin this Morning with a 2:09:42.

Yomif Kejelcha broke the half marathon world record in Valencia with a 57:30. 3 women ran 1:03 in the same race

Anyone know of any big names doing the senior cross country nationals?

Willie just followed up his Antarctica marathon win with a 2.34 in Cape Town.

On to Perth now for the next leg

You could always try and get your mile PB down, the curry mile that is

Round 5 done and dusted, and another win for Willie in a time of 2.43.

No travelling after this one, so it will be a chance to catch up on some recovery.

Unfortunately a DNF and a DNS for Willie on the last 2 legs.

Heat stroke put pay to his exploits yesterday and wasn't recovered enough to start today's event in Miami.

What an unbelievable adventure for him all the same, 5 marathons in 5 days on 5 different continents is an extraordinary achievement especially when you consider the pace he was doing them at.

The man is a machine.