Endurance: Haile Gebrselassie

A film on Hailes live from before his marathon achievements: Endurance in 8 parts from youtube:
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Haile Gebrselassie Revealed

On the day Haile reveals he will not participate in the olympic marathon next summer here the CCN documentry 'Haile Revealed' in 3 parts.

Part 1: Haile and his role in the ethiopian society
Part 2: Haile his background

Part 3: Haile and the 2007 marathon of Berlin

New world record on marathon

He did it! Gebrselassi did what he had said he would do by running a new world record in todays marathon in Berlin. With 2:04:26 he improved the world record with almost half a minute. Want to read more...?

Gebrselassie goes for world record?

While checking out the elite runners that I might see before the start of the Amsterdam Marathon I realized that tommorow Berlin is on the calendar. Having a fast track on might expect some of the worlds best runners to start in Berlin rather then Amsterdam. I found that Gebrselassie has the ambition to beat the current world record of 2:04:55 and bring it down to 2:03 something, according to The Canadian Press . On the other hand in another article he states: "The marathon is the only distance I can't talk about a world record." I wonder what will happen and will try to watch the race.

In Amsterdam the toprunners will be last years winner Bushendich and world champion Kibet. Other Kenians that might be found in front are Mbote and Kirui. As I will be some 2.ooo runners behind them I will have to settle for a short report on the TV in the evening. The guys will finisch around the time that I cross the 25k point. Maase and Krotwaar, the Dutch top marathon runners will also start in Amsterdam.

Gebrselassie still capable of fast run on track

Although Gebrselassie has swithed his focus from the track to the marathon he is still capable of running a fast race on the track as he showed last weekend during a tournament in Hengelo in the Netherlands. He ran the 10k during the FBK-games under the 27 minutes in 26:52.81.
Check out this remark on runnersweb.com:

".....his official age is 34 but many observers believe he is at least a few
years older..."

Maybe there is still hope for me being 34.....