The ticket to Stay for three months on the bed in his Ethiopian, the words written in the imperative, and concluded with an exclamation mark: “Go hard or Go home!”
Tadesse Abraham is not the first athlete, the Motto is approached with the Give-everything-or-go-home-to his goal, and so each day that he can reach it. If at all. On Tuesday, the Swiss record holder from his training base in Addis Ababa is flown in the Emirates, where he will start in the morning (3 PM CET) in Dubai for the Marathon. He says: “I would like to find out where my Limit is,” and says He would like to run faster than ever, he wants to run even faster than it has ever done a European.
Abraham is the first race over the 42.195 km since its EM-silver in August in Berlin. And it is the first in a long time, he puts the time in the center. This was at the EM is not so, at the Olympic Games in Rio (7.) not, and in New York, where he was in 2017 on the great Fifth place, is the route for the top time. Therefore, now Dubai: return to the Flat, fast, four-pointed, nothing else.
record holder Mo Farah
at the age of 36, Abraham is also a marathon runner in a more Mature athletes age, he knows that he has more Starts behind than in front. This is also why Dubai. Because since he started in the beginning of 2016 in Seoul in 2:06:40 hours a fastest time and the European record by just four seconds missed, floating around him, this brand in the head. And endless opportunities to attack them, not him. However, The development has not also made at the European level, Stop, the record has since been improved three times. Most recently in October, as the UK Star Mo Farah in Chicago in 2:05:11 triumphed.
“Go hard” is meant, for Abraham, the hardest workout ever, but not only. He says that he invested in never three whole months in a Marathon-the preparation, never so high loads built into the program as this time, never so long and so fast units completed as of the new year. “I’m very excited to see what I’m capable of,” he says.
His All-in strategy appears to be brave. Because as he rose to Olympia to the extent of around 230 miles in a week, gave up the Effort quickly, with a fatigue fracture of the sacrum. Since then, he combated the forms of a possible imbalance between load and loading capacity with alternative training.
dislocated As Abraham in October to Addis Ababa, he joined the local runner’s group, he is since 2016, respectively. However, the last three months were especially: “The training sessions were focused on an end time of 2:03 to 2:04, I have all been through,” he says, not without Pride.
With the Ethiopians Lemi Berhanu, the Boston winner in 2016, and Guye Adola, the Kipchoge 2017 in Berlin, later to be a world record holder Eliud almost dispute the victory, led two absolute top-class runner on the Training team. They both belong tomorrow to the winning candidates.
it is Clear to Abraham that he will not follow the Fastest, and your pace makers. “I won the organizer’s own Pacemaker. You don’t want that, agreed, after long discussions,” he explains.
Sponsor a social project
Regardless of how the race will end, Abraham 2019 capturing is already not self-evident success, After the previous main sponsor not to renew the contract, and is meant to be Management otherwise find.
For the insurance company Generali Switzerland, and will support him until after the 2020 Olympic games, his age is not a issue, its Background, however. She was looking for in him not only as the Ambassador for the race series, the sponsors, but also a Supporter in a social project for disadvantaged people. “I was also once, this is my story. And this work never stops,” he says. Before he picks it up, but, tomorrow, the shoes. To go to the Limit.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 23.01.2019, 23:00 clock
