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I was just doing my daily Bonnaroo search on Google and came across this article on the London Marathon.I did get a little chuckle after reading the quote. Anyways, I just copied the article down to the Bonnaroo reference, but I will give the link of you want to read the whole thing:
On Sunday morning, beginning at the pre-dawn hour of 4 a.m. on the east coast and 1 a.m. out west (Last Call at Wimbledon?), the greatest distance running field in history will assemble at Blackheath for the 26th London Marathon. Some 40,000 runners will line up at the starting line, in temperatures considerably warmer than last Monday's 26.2 miler in Boston, but there are only a half-dozen or so on whom you should fix your sights.
Atop the list, you have the two Africans, arguably the fastest distance runners of their generation, if not all time. From Kenya comes "The Gentleman," Paul Tergat. The 37-year-old set the world record at this distance at the Berlin Marathon in 2003 (2:04:55) despite taking a wrong turn near the finish. Tergat, who won the World Cross Country Championships five consecutive years between 1995-99, is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 10,000 in 1996 and 2000.
Tergat's amicable adversary, the man who outkicked him for the gold in those two Olympic 10Ks, is Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, who turned 34 on Wednesday. Whereas Tergat holds the world record in the marathon, Gebrselassie is the world-record holder in the half -marathon (58:55). .Gebrselassie won Berlin last year in 2:05:56, joining Tergat and three others as the only five men in history to run a sub-2:06 26.2 miler.
AFP Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, left, and Kenyan Paul Tergat, two of the best marathon runners in the world, headline the field at Sunday's London Marathon.Tergat and Gebrsellassie. As Kenny Mayne would succintly put it, "They're fast." And they have not competed in the same race, at any distance, since 2002. That was the London Marathon, when Gebrselassie, making his marathon debut, finished third and Tergat finished second (neither has ever won London). The winner that day was Moroccan-born American Khalid Khannouchi, who broke his own three-year-old world record with his 2:05:38 finish. Khannouchi, 36 and battling injuries of late, has run three of the seven fastest marathons ever.
So there you have it. Three of the five men who've ever run a sub-2:06, two of whom have owned the WR for the last eight years. But, if I may be Ron Popeil for a moment, that's not all. Because, understand, this field is deeper than the Port-a-John line at Bonnaroo.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
I was just doing my daily Bonnaroo search on Google
I realize now that I have a ways to go to be TRULY Bonaroo obsessed!
Thanks for the heads up, Jay, now I can add another ritual to my obsession. But, hey, that's how I found inforoo! Looks like once I found inforoo I didn't think I needed to search any more!
Great obscure ref to Bonnaroo, and about the portolet lines no less. Lines that are evidently famous around the world.
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