What's Up With Women's Mid D This Year? 4:05.32 is #3 in the World

How often is the 1500 run indoors in a fast setting?

And the season isn't over.

Wasn't Cain's run at altitude equal to a 4:01?

How fast is the track in Poland.

To me, Wejo, this simply drives home how Aregawi and Dibaba are approaching this indoor season in a way that is exceptional rather than the norm among the rest of the athletes out there--many of whom have a full Championship season behind them, who will have another in 2015, and will use 2014 to chase fast times outdoors rather than in. It doesn't seem to me that this attitude is especially unusual or striking, but I could be wrong about that.

If the Russians finish indoors with no sub-2:00 or sub-4:02 performances, it means they are de facto finally taking testing seriously. However they've got xenon gas and that mystery steroid-like drug that isn't even being tested for, so maybe there is something else going on too.

It seems on par with the past couple of years, looking at the archived world lists from Track and Field News.

2014

3:55.17 Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) Karlsruhe 02/01

3:57.91 Abeba Aregawi (Sweden) Stockholm 02/06

4:05.70 *Kim Conley (US) N Balance G 01/25

4:06.63 *Mary Cain (US) Terrier Cl 01/24

4:07.01 Hellen Obiri (Kenya) Düsseldorf 01/30

4:08.15 Angelika Cichocka (Poland) Karlsruhe 02/01

4:08.47 Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) Stockholm 02/06

4:08.66 *Jordan Hasay (US) Terrier Cl 01/24

4:08.79 Betlhem Desalegn(Un. Arab Emirates)Stockholm 02/06

4:08.88 Axumawit Embaye (Ethiopia)

2013

3:58.40 Abeba Aregawi (Sweden) Stockholm 02/21

4:00.83 Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) Birmingham 02/16

4:07.65 Anzhela Shevchenko (Ukraine) St. Petersburg 01/24

4:07.99 Siham Hilali (Morocco) Birmingham 02/16

4:09.11 Axumawit Embaye (Ethiopia) Stockholm 02/21

4:09.36 Rabab Arrafi (Morocco) Stockholm 02/21

4:09.86 Natalia Rodríguez (Spain) Düsseldorf 02/08

4:09.90 Luiza Gega (Albania) Gre Ch 02/16

4:09.95 Anna Shchagina (Russia) Moscow 01/25

4:10.28 Yelena Korobkina (Russia) Rus Ch 02/14

2012

4:00.13 Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) Karlsruhe 02/12

4:03.67 Mariem Alaoui Selsouli (Morocco) Liéven 02/14

4:04.53 Siham Hilali (Morocco) Liéven 02/14

4:06.01 Tizita Bogale (Ethiopia) Liéven 02/14

4:06.25 Helen Obiri (Kenya) Karlsruhe 02/12

4:06.78 Anzhela Shevchenko (Ukraine) Liéven 02/14

4:07.27 *Jenny Simpson (US) Millrose G 02/11

4:07.65 Meskerem Assefa (Ethiopia) Liéven 02/14

4:07.66 *Shannon Rowbury (US) Millrose G 02/11

4:07.72 Diana Sujew (Germany) Potsdam 01/

Don't worry. The NOPers will get the dosages adjusted.

Looks like it's not that unusual. thanks.

post of the year right there...answered the question, provided evidence, didn't mention TUEs. wow

dibaba got a lot faster

the russians got slower

big clampdown with rusada