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your adidas Moment for July 23, 2014: With Brother Colm watching David Rudisha’s ” 100 seconds to beat the world”, by Justin Lagat

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
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 NB: Photos from right Nicholas Leong (Kenyan Riders), Jean Paul (Director Kerio View Hotel), Brother Colm (Rudisha’s Coach) and Jeroen Deen (Physio from NED)


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With Brother Colm watching David Rudisha’s “100 seconds to beat the world”, by Justin Lagat

July 23, 2014. Iten, Kenya. 
Sometimes in life, we just end up being at some place just at the right time. Today was my day. I happened to be in Iten, at the Kerio View hotel just right on time when Brother Colm, in the company of Jeroen Deen, a physiotherapist; Nicholas Leong, founder of the Kenyan Riders and Jean Paul, director of Kerio View hotel, were about to watch the new BBC documentary on David Rudisha; “100 seconds to beat the world.”
The film itself is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen in my life. It is one film I will wish to watch again and again. It shows Rudisha’s daring journey from a very humble beginning, through so many challenges on his way up to becoming the Olympic champion in 2012. After watching the film, one gets inspired and learns some valuable lessons about working to achieve one’s success.
But, sitting there next to Brother Colm, Rudisha’s all-time coach, was a different experience altogether. Not only was it great that he would elaborate more about a particular scene, but his surprised expressions at some particular instances when he would come across some particular scenes he never knew anyone had filmed him were priceless. At some points when the film reminded him of great moments and showed him laughing or smiling, he would react the same way while watching it. At some intense moments in the film, he would also react the same way while watching it. In short, he was as moved as the rest of us watching in the room.
At the beginning of the film where Rudisha appears as a small boy as he joined St. Patricks School, one would wonder if someone had known that he was ever going to become an Olympic champion one time, because it is as though whoever took those early video clips knew that they were going to be very valuable at one time. There is a video of Rudisha running his first 800m event in which he won despite the fact that he was afraid, at first, to start in the race.
When Rudisha was able to win a gold medal at the world junior championships in 2006, Brother Colm was doubtful he was going to return to Iten. Most other athletes would leave his school and go out with other coaches. But, Rudisha did return, which made him encouraged and more determined to mold him into a world beater.
However, the path to success from there didn’t go on very smoothly. There were injuries that slowed him down and some racing strategies that needed to be corrected. For example, what prevented Rudisha from reaching the finals at the 2009 world championships was just but a poor race strategy.
They finally figured that out in 2010 when Rudisha started front running and many successes began to follow, including world records and sports personality awards.
In most parts of the film, one gets to enjoy a lot of humor from Brother Colm. There was a point he had to scare some kids to run away then exclaimed, “that how to make champions!” At another point, he asks Rudisha to stand up very slowly in order not to blow up the roof of a shade; because the guy was tall. Then there was a point when he was answering a question as to whether there was a “secret” to running. Of which he replied, as he pointed at the athletes running on the field, “the secret is in the head.”
Anyway, I think the more I try to describe this film, the more I risk painting a dull picture of it. Just watch it for yourself and I am sure you will thank me for asking you to watch it!
 
 NB: Photos from right Nicholas Leong (Kenyan Riders), Jean Paul (Director Kerio View Hotel), Brother Colm (Rudisha’s Coach) and Jeroen Deen (Physio from NED)

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  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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