Why can Kiprop et al. run fast 1500s but can barely break 3:50 for the mile?

the mile is a has-been distance that nobody cares about or ever will

welcome to the metric age! Base 10 everything.

Because the mile is a whole different race than a 1500. First it's an ordinary 1500 and then another 109m. Even Kiprop is wasted after a hard 1500. You can't expect that skeleton to run another 109m.

He clearly wasn't trying to run a fast time. He was messing around with race strategy to see if he could win in a sit and kick race before he goes after 1500m gold in Beijing

It's a shame that he wasted this shape when he could have moved well up into the top ten milers of all time. He only goes for it once a year, at Monaco. His best mile is just 3:48.high, nothing close to the 3:43.13 1.08x conversion of this year's Monaco edition.

jjjjjjj wrote:

It's a shame that he wasted this shape when he could have moved well up into the top ten milers of all time. He only goes for it once a year, at Monaco. His best mile is just 3:48.high, nothing close to the 3:43.13 1.08x conversion of this year's Monaco edition.

He's got a 3:26 and three (soon to be four) global gold medals. He's already among the best milers of all time. Its much more important to him to test different tactics and strategies than time trial an off distance.

track anal-ist wrote:

He was messing around with race strategy to see if he could win in a sit and kick race before he goes after 1500m gold in Beijing

Devil Dog wrote:

Its much more important to him to test different tactics and strategies than time trial an off distance.

Idiots.

He was having fun.

He needs to have competition. Mile fields are usually packed with an unusually large number of slow white guys. Note how he disrespected his competition today: no way was he going to run sub 3:50. Not true of championship or Diamond League 1500 fields. Ask yourself how many mile races he has lost.

A mile is more than a whole football-field length longer than a 1500, which is the "metric mile". When Kiprop--an African runner, from Africa, which is where a lot of the really good distance runners come from--runs a mile, his leg speed velocity is just not quite as fast as it is at the 1500. I can tell that be looking at his leg turnover, which isn't as quick.

laughable !!!

go look at his trajectory in bowerman mile :

he ran a criminal amount wide on bends

for a route-1 tight in lane 1 the whole way, he wouda run

~ 3'48-mid

with a

51.5 !!!

analysis of his trajectory in that race told me he was in 3'26+ shape

Snpxc80 wrote:

What gives? Why do times significantly slow when it comes to the mile distance?

Did you watch the race? It's perfectly obvious why Kiprop didn't post a fast time.

pr100 wrote:

Snpxc80 wrote:

What gives? Why do times significantly slow when it comes to the mile distance?

Did you watch the race? It's perfectly obvious why Kiprop didn't post a fast time.

Ingebrigtsen stepped on Kiprop´s heel.