Mo Farah 2 go for the World record in the 10k in 2017

He doesn't have the speed to do that

Not a chance he touches either record.

He won't get the WR but I can see him breaking into the top 10 all time list and breaking 26:30. We've yet to see him truly go for a top time instead of simply racing to win so who knows what happens.

tony the tiger wrote:

I guess he will go for both the 5 n the 10k next yr

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/1957953/mo-farah-aims-to-break-10000-metres-world-record-in-final-year/

Doesn't it stand to reason that (if he were capable) he could train for world record fitness AND as a consequence be in championship 10k form?

I don't really understand his quote about championship racing being exclusive of fast times.

GL farah wrote:

He won't get the WR but I can see him breaking into the top 10 all time list and breaking 26:30. We've yet to see him truly go for a top time instead of simply racing to win so who knows what happens.

He's not gonna break 26:30. Not even close. I dunno who would pace him. Unlike Bekele, Farah doesn't know how to make the pace. In Bekeles 10,000m WR I think the pacers only lasted 6 laps and he was on his own after that.

Very few people could take him through the first 5K of the 10,000 record. No one through 6K.

Best chance at a WR is in his best event: 2000m.

Cornflakes wrote:

He doesn't have the speed to do that

He'll have to do massive PEDs to do that. Much more than his usual intake.

greta wrote:

Very few people could take him through the first 5K of the 10,000 record. No one through 6K.

Why would anyone care to take him through? If he can't do it on his own he is unworthy, and incapable of a WR. May the TUEs be with him.

Will he be using one of those motorized bikes?

This is a rumor...only a rumor...supposedly, Rupp/Salazar have decided to rabbit farah through 8k in his bid to get the wr. Again, that's just what was going around recently at the Nike Campus.

doot doot wrote:

tony the tiger wrote:

I guess he will go for both the 5 n the 10k next yr

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/1957953/mo-farah-aims-to-break-10000-metres-world-record-in-final-year/

Doesn't it stand to reason that (if he were capable) he could train for world record fitness AND as a consequence be in championship 10k form?

I don't really understand his quote about championship racing being exclusive of fast times.

The same thing is puzzling me too. If you were capable of world record shape you'd obviously want to be as close to it as possible to win championships, considering being faster than everyone else is inherent in the definition of "world record." It's not like someone's going to sit and out kick you going WR pace. Does anyone know what, if any, is the difference in approach for these two objectives?

I'm assuming it means taking on a high risk/high reward style of training, but beyond that it's not so clear.

Not a chance. Only venue able to force 3 rabbits to do his dirty work is Historic Hayward, and Vin and Phil are going to prison soon.

I think it's because it would mean peaking for a WR attempt (at a meeting with pacers) rather than a champ race.

You must be kidding us wrote:

GL farah wrote:

He won't get the WR but I can see him breaking into the top 10 all time list and breaking 26:30. We've yet to see him truly go for a top time instead of simply racing to win so who knows what happens.

He's not gonna break 26:30. Not even close. I dunno who would pace him. Unlike Bekele, Farah doesn't know how to make the pace. In Bekeles 10,000m WR I think the pacers only lasted 6 laps and he was on his own after that.

Oh, you reckon so? In Bekele's race he ran 19 laps on his own did he? What makes you say that? Perhaps it is the enormous hard-on you and the rest of the people here have for Bekele that make you invent legend about Bekele that isn't true.

He was placed through 5k in 13:07.

justintherunner wrote:

Not a chance he touches either record.

Mo's problem is his best 3k is too slow (not for me) at 7:32, Komen (Geb and Bekele as well I presume) went through 3k in 7:37 and came home in 5:02. Bekele was even stronger and quicker. So the 5k WR is unlikely, then there is the 10k WR. He is going to need a lot more juice to break that record, and current testing has mostly put a lid on this (epo & blood bags are detectable in large doses) so 10k is unviable with one caveat..........

Unless Jama can be found to hold the stop watch!

If he really tries to run fast, we will have to give him credit for that. But I think he does not stand a chance. Neither at 5000m, nor at 10000m. He never got close and he is getting a little old now.

Skips Arm Day wrote:

The same thing is puzzling me too. If you were capable of world record shape you'd obviously want to be as close to it as possible to win championships, considering being faster than everyone else is inherent in the definition of "world record." It's not like someone's going to sit and out kick you going WR pace. Does anyone know what, if any, is the difference in approach for these two objectives?

It is the strong possibility in a medal race of blowing up in the attempt and coming in 8th against knowing that if you are in the lead pack at the bell you are in with a really good shot of outkicking everyone.

But then you knew that.

beaverton tc wrote:

This is a rumor...only a rumor...supposedly, Rupp/Salazar have decided to rabbit farah through 8k in his bid to get the wr. Again, that's just what was going around recently at the Nike Campus.

Is Salazar going to handle the first 200?