Preliminary reports have Haile Gebrsellasie running 58:55 in Arizona this morning, taking 21 seconds off the world record.
4:29.8 per mile average pace? Ungodly isn’t it?
More like Godly, don’t you think?
I think he used the pose method and trained with a forerunner and only ran 3 days a week and that was on the treadmill at the local Y.
AWESOME! It’s nice that he got it on American soil. Geb seems like a very classy athlete.
2’47’'/km for the Euros around here…
So, who here was saying he is finished?
Those who said that based on the previous 2 years could have remembered that he was dealing with
long time achille problems in the last 3-4 years, including one surgery.
Why would he train with a ForeRunner on a treadmill? 
He is very classy. A couple of years ago when he ran the Boston Indoor Games, I was sitting on the bus waiting to go over to the track. There was an empty seat next to me and the bus was getting pretty full. Haile and his manager get on the bus and Haile takes the seat next to me. We talked on the way over the track and he is a very humble, sweet person. He was telling me how excited he was to be racing in America, and how Boston has a fairly large Ethopian population and that he expected they would be there to support him. They were and it was awesome. IMO, he still has a few great races left in him, especially at the marathon distance.
An interesting fact to compare Gebrselassie and Bekele. The last defeat of Bekele in a cross country race
was in December 2001 by noone else than Gebrselassie himself.
why is it nice that he got a record on American soil?
Why did you talk to him? He runs with Adidas, doesn’t he? 
I think that he’s been such a great representative for the sport…and most of his races are in Europe. So it’s nice to see this class act get the half world record in the US.
Because he is King Haile… ; )
Any report on the Marathon results? Top ten male/female?
Damn. That’s fast.
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Haile Gebrselassie, four-times World and twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion, shattered the World Half Marathon record* by 21 seconds today at the P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon and Half-Marathon in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The 32-year-old Ethiopian, who won the 2001 World Half Marathon title and was the fastest marathon runner of 2005, also smashed Paul Tergat’s 20km record enroute to win the half marathon in a time of 58:55.
The previous World record time for the half marathon was set by 18-year-old Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru, who ran 59:16 in Rotterdam last September.
Gebrselassie’s 20km time, also officially clocked, was 55:48. That broke* Tergat’s 56:18 set in the Stramilano Half Marathon in Italy on 4 April 1998.
PA International for the IAAF
NOTE. A full report from Bert Rosenthal, the IAAF’s correspondent in Phoenix, will follow later
*World records - subject to ratification
Because he trained with me for 5 days im Lanzarote
Napoleon