2:04'26" Los parciales: 14'43" - 29'24" - 1:02'29 - 1:28'54" Negative splits!
Sin conejos desde los 30, hizo del 34 al 35 en 2'50"
Nineteen years ago, a skinny 15 year old did what millions of country kids over the centuries have done. Haile Gebrselassie went up to the big city, to seek his fortune. He was only in Addis Ababa a couple of days, just long enough to run a marathon and struggle, half crippled from the effort, back home to his village 175 kilometres away.
He would start running again a week later, when the pain subsided, and the dreams of success returned. But even he could not have dreamed that what began with a 2hrs 48min marathon round the back streets of Addis, admittedly at altitude, would presage a career which, thus far has netted him 25 world records, the last one today in Berlin, at that same marathon distance, but his time some 44 minutes faster, in 2.04.26.
“It was the only race I could find,” he said, recalling his first tribulation an hour after his latest triumph. “I ran in street shoes, with plastic soles, and only finished because there were no cars, there was no other way to get back to the start.
Los parciales de la bestia son de no creer.
ReplyDeletePero no importa, mañana empiezo a entrenarme en serio y el negrito es pan comido.