Lagat and Solinsky 5k on june 4th in Oslo predictions

I could see Solinsky going sub 12:50.

come on, now. 12:40s do not happen very often.

Bekele 12:54

Solinsky 12:55

Lagat 13:00

Bekele 12:52

Lagat 12:56

Solinsky 13:05

What you have is more reasonable; those 12:40s will only happen late in the season. I am not sure I would put Chris ahead of Lagat.

TrackCoach wrote:

What you have is more reasonable; those 12:40s will only happen late in the season. I am not sure I would put Chris ahead of Lagat.

Five of the top ten 5000s occurred July 2 or sooner, with the two top times in May and early June.

douglas burke wrote:

hopefully teg and ritz can join the fun as well, (i have not heard if they will run this race).

maybe 2-4 americans under ritz's current record?

what are your predictions?

No Rupp mention? He beat Solinsky over 3K a few months ago and finished 5th at worlds while a 10K specialist. His indoor 5K ranks higher internationally than Solinsky's 10K.

17th all time Rupp Vs. 64th all time for Chris

I know it's apples and oranges and I'm not saying Rupp is actually better, but just why no mention?

and him too wrote:

No Rupp mention? He beat Solinsky over 3K a few months ago and finished 5th at worlds while a 10K specialist. His indoor 5K ranks higher internationally than Solinsky's 10K.

17th all time Rupp Vs. 64th all time for Chris

I know it's apples and oranges and I'm not saying Rupp is actually better, but just why no mention?

Not only apples and oranges but a ridiculous and naive comparison you've made. 26:59 is a breakthrough performance - the first non-African sub-27 minutes (ok, non-African-born); a barrier breakthrough......whereas Rupp's 4th place in a rarely run 5000 was a solid effort but nothing remotely as good as a comparison (to anyone who has any sort of understanding of the sport). Maybe if he'd run sub-13:00 indoors you'd have something similar....

I can easily see Solinsky running in the 12:55 range based on what I saw yesterday. I don't know where the other guys mentioned are at.

Btw, there needs to be a lot of discussion on this board in the coming weeks about the Pre meet 5K. Solinsky said in his post race interview that all his training has been geared toward peaking for the 5K at the Pre Classic in the first week of July. And being in Eugene I'm kind of just assuming Rupp will want to be in that race and there is no scheduled 10K.

Jerry will trick the Sol-Man into doing it as a "glorified VO2 max run" in preparation for Prefontaine, which will result in a 3:58.2 final 1600 and 12:49.72, with Lagat 3rd at 12:52.43.

Unfortunately, Prefontaine will be a DNF/DNS, since he is now too skinny to run hard for months at a time.

Rupp vs Solinsky rematch @ Pre Classic? You can bet payback's a bitch.