So what does Kenenisa Bekele know about training?

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I was astounded by the great Kenenisa Bekele's statement after losing out to a Kenyan clean sweep today in the Edinburgh International cross country athletics race. "I am not in good shape," he said, in an interview with BBC Sport. "I arrived three days before the race and I could not train because of the snow. I missed two or three training sessions."

What? Two or three training sessions? And he's not in good shape? What kind of physiology does this guy have? I could understand if he said, "I didn't feel great today. I like to be able to run in the days before a race". But that's not what he said.

It seems like an incredibly ignorant statement for one of the greatest endurance runners of all time to make. It's the sort of thing I hear kids say. It's understandable that kids might obsess about how much training they've done and whether missing a couple of days might be the end of the world, but not a 27 year old multiple world record holder!

Indeed, I'd like to see kids have more perspective, and for a role model like Bekele to come out with this is only going to reinforce the myth that if they miss a couple of days of training they are suddenly going to lose fitness.

Oh - and I suppose no-one else in the race had their schedules affected by snow either?

What a nonsense.



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Rob Robson
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Tags: athletics, cross country, edinburgh, fitness, kenenisa bekele, training
Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM by robrobson | Permalink | Comments(0)



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