Post your predictions here!
Does anyone know if an 800m time will be taken en route? If so, then that's one heck of a way to run your first sub 2!
Thoughts?
Post your predictions here!
Does anyone know if an 800m time will be taken en route? If so, then that's one heck of a way to run your first sub 2!
Thoughts?
Well given the special vitamin injections, multiply by two, add some microdosed epo, a wiff of xenon gas, rub in some androgel, just thinly not to heavy, a shot of whisky, add in a Jama on the stopwatch, make sure you are never tested out of competition, bribe a few officials. Then multiply by 1.312 again and you get a figure around 2:26.
Some info:
http://www.watchathletics.com/article/9953/genzebe-dibaba-to-race-1000m-in-madrid-on-friday/
It appears she will be racing with her younger sister, Anna.
Among the others lining-up for the
1000 is Gudaf Tsegay. Tsegay medalled over the 1500 at last year's World Indoors and she has a PB of 4:00.x She was selected to represent her country in the 800 at the olympics, ran a respectable 2 flat, but unfortunately ended up being the fastest non-qualifier for the semis in Rio. The women's 800 heats were nasty.
new world best 2:30 or a shade under. She's not in bad shape with the 3:58 already.
Agreed on the time
If only she had someone like Jenny Meadows to pace her for the first 600 - 2:28 would have been possible or even likely.
Ethiopia does seem to have some great 800m talent emerging, Dibaba's camp should have gotten someone like Habitam Alemu on pacing duty. Perhaps they are confident in Dibaba's abilty to TT her way into a World Best, she has probably gone faster in training...:D
Short-Middle-Distance Loving wrote:
Post your predictions here!
Does anyone know if an 800m time will be taken en route? If so, then that's one heck of a way to run your first sub 2!
Thoughts?
I think she will get the WR even without being in as good a shape as she was last year around this time. Last year, she would have smashed the WR by 2 seconds. Last year, she ran 2:34 in route to her 1500 WR. I think she will come through the 800 in 1:59 and close is 30 seconds for 2:30 low.
Dibaba is no doper!
Didn't need know there was another Dibaba sister, I expect about 2:29.8-2:30.3 area
World record.
So after Laura Muir split 2:00.5 during her 1k, and Diababa will likely split 1:59, does Letsrun finally agree with me that the current talent in the women's sport is in the 1500+?
This is the reason Semenya/Niyonsaba/Wambui look SO good. 2:00 is not fast. It is a terrible standard for elite performance.
At the meeting where Laura Muir broke the British record for the 1k, she ran faster than the 'elite' women's 800m field that included Olympic finalists, en route.
The women's 800m is the weakest track event right now. 2:00 = 1:47.
Anna has a 1500 PB of 4:20 and she has run 5:55 over the 2000. Perhaps each younger Dibaba sister is destined to drop down in distance to show a comparable level of talent. With proper training, Anna could be in line to be the next 800m superstar ;)
I completely agree with this! PS, Bishop seems to have run away from the 400m. She ran a 56.x in 2011, which is still listed as her PB
1:59 at 800 sounds about right!
I really wish she'd run a couple of 800s this season, but apparently she is considering a 5K/10K double at Worlds this year. Not enough time between the final of the 1500 and the heats of the 5000??
There no chance she won't run faster than Muir did. 2:31.9ish if I recall.
I'll guess she runs under 2:30. Anyone have splits for the world champs in 2015 when many women broke 2min for the last 800? Wonder if we could pull a km split from that (rolling, obviously).
My prediction is 2:29.17
I wonder wrote:
So after Laura Muir split 2:00.5 during her 1k, and Diababa will likely split 1:59, does Letsrun finally agree with me that the current talent in the women's sport is in the 1500+?
This is the reason Semenya/Niyonsaba/Wambui look SO good. 2:00 is not fast. It is a terrible standard for elite performance.
At the meeting where Laura Muir broke the British record for the 1k, she ran faster than the 'elite' women's 800m field that included Olympic finalists, en route.
The women's 800m is the weakest track event right now. 2:00 = 1:47.
2:00 = 1:47
1:59 = 1:46
1:58 = 1:45
1:57 = 1:44
1:56 = 1:43
1:55 = 1:42
1:54 = 1:41
1:53 = 1:40
How is it weak?
Middle94 wrote:
World record.
The audacity of it all.
And I'll call it 2:30.17 ;-)
with the final lap being 30.4x, so that's about 1:59.75 @ 800
Too much hype on these world record attempts. Trying to make the most of it before the doping era could end?
TrackCoach wrote:
I wonder wrote:So after Laura Muir split 2:00.5 during her 1k, and Diababa will likely split 1:59, does Letsrun finally agree with me that the current talent in the women's sport is in the 1500+?
This is the reason Semenya/Niyonsaba/Wambui look SO good. 2:00 is not fast. It is a terrible standard for elite performance.
At the meeting where Laura Muir broke the British record for the 1k, she ran faster than the 'elite' women's 800m field that included Olympic finalists, en route.
The women's 800m is the weakest track event right now. 2:00 = 1:47.
2:00 = 1:47
1:59 = 1:46
1:58 = 1:45
1:57 = 1:44
1:56 = 1:43
1:55 = 1:42
1:54 = 1:41
1:53 = 1:40
How is it weak?
The current women's talent struggles to run sub 2. That's why it's weak. The best woman runs 1:57 which is 1:44 according to your table. That's not good.
At the IAAF world indoor challenge the women in the 800m including 1 or 2 Rio Olympic finalists struggled to run 2:01. Muir ran 2:00 enroute.
All the women in the 1500m would DESTROY the women in the 800m. Dibaba is going to run 1:59 en route. Muir ran 2:00 enroute. The women closed the last 800m of the 1500 in 1:57/1:58 in Rio.
2:31, and possibly not as fast as Muir. It's a tough race that isn't staged very often, closer to 800 than 1500, and she never runs 800 competitively. She'll go out a bit too fast, and hit the last 200 no better than 32 seconds.