… the last post I didn’t make was in the morning on October 12, the day Eliud Kipchoge ran the marathon TT in 1:59:40. I’d gotten up at 3:30 to watch it, I was on my second pot of coffee, I’d been talking and texting with my friend Ralph who there in Vienna, and I was pumped.
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…and so were a lot of other people who thought that Kenenisa Bekele was done. His performances in the past few years at the marathon distance have been DNF’s or disappointing. (That is, for someone whose debut marathon wad a 2:05.) He has looked heavy, and it was easy to jump to the conclusion that he had lost his desire. Nope. In Berlin last weekend, he was just 2 seconds off the Kipchoge WR. More to come, or was it good enough to prove us wrong again?