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10 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia totally destroyed the 15k world record at the Zevenheuvelenloop ('Seven Hills Run') in Nijmegen today: 44.20 minutes, destroying the old record by one minute and 17 seconds.

 

The last 10k, which is slightly more downhill, went faster than Ayana's 10k track world record.

 

Fake news! There is no way there are seven hills in the whole of the Netherlands, let alone one town!  :old:

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12 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

 

Fake news! There is no way there are seven hills in the whole of the Netherlands, let alone one town!  :old:

 

I didn't say it was the Himalayas Run :p

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1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

 

Fake news! There is no way there are seven hills in the whole of the Netherlands, let alone one town!  :old:

 

Don't worry, there isn't actually seven hills in the race. The 15K race is named after the "seven hills road", but doesn't run the full length of the road. There are 2 significant hills in the race and about 3-5 uphill parts that most foreigner would only consider a bump in the road.

 

The Seven Hills race is a great event. This was my third year participating and the athmosphere is always great. Susan Krumins (7th place 10K world champs) usually participates as well and I actually did most of my warmups in the same alley as her this year, that was a fun (and humbling) experience!

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Name changes solve all problems :woohoo: 

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10 hours ago, dcro said:

 

To be fair, IAAF has become a synonim for dirty federation in recent years. It's a nice facelift. :p

A nice facelift is kicking out the Coe's of this world and announcing you're gonna stop fucking up the sport with weird DNA events and dumb Diamond League formats and so on.

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32 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

A nice facelift is kicking out the Coe's of this world and announcing you're gonna stop fucking up the sport with weird DNA events and dumb Diamond League formats and so on.

 

For the people involved it's not, but for casual sports fans who only see "IAAF" in headlines that also contain "Russia", "doping", "cover-up" and so on - it's a nice facelift. :p

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