What will you do if Evan Jager breaks the steeple world record?

I will applaud. Is this what you're asking of me? I may also post on the boards, some to praise the performance and others to speculate about Farah's doping regiment. Typical day really.

He has to break it in this race or any time in the future?

wejo wrote:

It's got to be the highest percentage an American (not named Khalid Khannouchi) has to break a distance world record since I've followed the sport.

Wejo, rephrase in English?

Wear my hair in a man-bun to celebrate.

based on his unimpressive 5000 meter run in Zurich, I doubt he'll break 8 minutes.

historian wrote:

wejo wrote:

It's got to be the highest percentage an American (not named Khalid Khannouchi) has to break a distance world record since I've followed the sport.

Wejo, rephrase in English?

Wejo was writing a fun piece not a Master's Thesis. I'm willing to bet you understood him just fine. Grammatical errors and all.

coloradorunner12345 wrote:

based on his unimpressive 5000 meter run in Zurich, I doubt he'll break 8 minutes.

What was unimpressive about Zurich? He was third in against a stacked field, which included everyone except for Farah, and almost won it.

Agreed. WTF would anyone do? I'll say, wow, a new WR. Then probably not think about it again until it's broken.

It looks good, I tell myself. wrote:

Wear my hair in a man-bun to celebrate.

Best response.

I turn 30 next week. I'd devote my nextteo years of training to the steeple, and train my 2-year old son to run the steeple in the 2040 Olympics.

malmo wrote:

coloradorunner12345 wrote:

based on his unimpressive 5000 meter run in Zurich, I doubt he'll break 8 minutes.

What was unimpressive about Zurich? He was third in against a stacked field, which included everyone except for Farah, and almost won it.

He didn't run fast enough to indicate sub 8 ability. He was way outside his PR too.

I'll drop a dime on him and call USADA.

Wejo

With all due respect, Jäger really has no chance to break the steeplechase world record. The difference between 8:00 and 7:53 is huge. It is like when Webb ran 3:46.91. Nobody in their right mind thought he could then run 3:43.12. Now, of course Jäger would have broken 8 if he had not fallen. But still, it is just too much time for him to cut off.

I do think his Olympic effort also indicates he could break 8. His Zurich 5000m was nice and really doesn't tell us much about his steeplechase, other than he is not afraid to front run. Anyway, it should be exciting,

Also, Wejo, I am not sure when you began following the sport, but when Henry Marsh ran 8:09.17 in 1985, that was only 3.77 seconds off Henry Rono's world record, so some might have thought Marsh had as good of a chance as Jäger to break the world record.

Lagat ran 3:27.40 in 2004 as an American citizen, though he was still running for Kenya. And he beat El G. So, he had a chance to break El G's world record that year and the next year when he was running for America. He did not, of course, but he had a better shot than Jager, who does have a shot but would need to be stronger than he was in that 5000m a few days ago.

wejo wrote:

It's got to be the highest percentage an American (not named Khalid Khannouchi) has to break a distance world record since I've followed the sport.

Donavan Brazier will break the 800m world record.

Here you go wrote:

malmo wrote:

What was unimpressive about Zurich? He was third in against a stacked field, which included everyone except for Farah, and almost won it.

He didn't run fast enough to indicate sub 8 ability. He was way outside his PR too.

Are you new to the sport? You actually looked at the time results one race and made that determination?

Jager ran 8:04 in an Olympics Games setting, surely that's and indication of him being ready to break 8:00 in Brussels in the evening in perfect conditions .

roberto baggio wrote:

wejo wrote:

It's got to be the highest percentage an American (not named Khalid Khannouchi) has to break a distance world record since I've followed the sport.

Donavan Brazier will break the 800m world record.

Harharhar

Nope.

Applauder of the laudable wrote:

I will applaud. Is this what you're asking of me? I may also post on the boards, some to praise the performance and others to speculate about Farah's doping regiment. Typical day really.

Classic.

What I'm hoping for is a repeat of Paris last year, just a little faster. The rabbits drop out and Jager takes over, pushing the pace. Either he burns the kick out of Kipruto or he doesn't but gets a PR and plenty of fairly useless respect from the elite hobby jogger community (us).

What will you do if Evan Jager breaks the steeple world record?

There is a greater likelihood that ^this is the stupidest thread title ever written on LRC than there is Evan breaks the WR this year.

WTF will you do, wejo?