Somebody should contact Dictionary.com to update their definition of insanity to include the picture of Haile Gebrselassie. He ran his half-marathon in 58 minutes, 55 seconds. That is humbling. Here I thought setting a sub-1:20:00 goal for me was a long shot, now thinking to have a crack at Geb I need to nail a sub-hour half-marathon. The chances of that happening? Well, I haven't stopped laughing.
UNION-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES
January 16, 2006
Haile Gebrselassie shattered the world half marathon record by 21 seconds yesterday while running the last half of the Rock 'N' Roll Arizona marathon.
He also broke the 20-kilometer world mark en route. It marked the 19th and 20th times the diminutive Ethiopian has broken world records in his career.
"This one is so fantastic because this is my first one in America," he said. "It's a little special to me. It's really, really wonderful."
His half marathon time of 58 minutes, 55 seconds on a clear, crisp morning through the streets of Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe broke the mark of 59:16 set by 18-year-old Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, last Sept. 11.
Gebrselassie's 20-kilometer time, also officially clocked, was 55:48, 30 seconds under the 1998 mark set by longtime rival Paul Tergat of Kenya.
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