David Rudisha is moving up.... to the 1k in Ostrava on June 28th

Interested in who he'll compete against. Would love to see Makhloufi & Souleiman in this to give Rudisha a run for his money. I see him taking out conservative & kicking hard but sometimes he doesn't kick hard enough so it'll be very interesting

LetsRun.com wrote:

We may never get to see him in a 1500 so this may be the next best thing.

"I'm excited to try this race. People are always asking me how would I run at 1500. I always say that's too far to run against the miler guys! But 1000m is of course shorter and closer to my racing distance.

"I've got no time or plan in mind but I'm excited to test myself and see what I can do," added Rudisha, who will be competing in the Czech city for the fifth time.

One publicly unstated goal could be the meeting record of 2:15.08 set by Ilham Tanui Ozbilen of Turkey in 2014, the fastest time that year over the rarely-run distance.

https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/rudisha-1000m-debut-ostrava-iaaf-world-challe

He referred to 1500 runners as milers. rip every letsrun troll who has ever said the mile isn't relevant outside of the US.

LetsRun.com wrote:

We may never get to see him in a 1500 so this may be the next best thing...

"....People are always asking me how would I run at 1500. I always say that's too far to run against the miler guys!"....

One publicly unstated goal could be the meeting record of 2:15:08..

Using Rudisha's 45.5 & 1:40.9, these are the times I get for him:

100 0:10.78

200 0:20.81

400 0:45.5

800 1:40.9

1000 2:10.55

1500 3:27.98

1-mile 3:45.36

3000 7:37.98

2-mile 8:15.86

5000 13:35.57

10000 29:34.77

Not sure why he thinks the 1500/mile is too far to run against the "miler guys" :p

From http://timescalculator.appspot.com

Sigh... Rudisha has a 45.13 from Nairobi 2013 with no competition and in his WR shape was CLEARLY in 44.7 shape or possibly better. 45.5 is absolute bollocks for him. He has never run a 400 in peak condition.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EctrLwlvnfwhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rudisha

stats.gangsta_the_real_1 wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

We may never get to see him in a 1500 so this may be the next best thing...

"....People are always asking me how would I run at 1500. I always say that's too far to run against the miler guys!"....

One publicly unstated goal could be the meeting record of 2:15:08..

Using Rudisha's 45.5 & 1:40.9, these are the times I get for him:

100 0:10.78

200 0:20.81

400 0:45.5

800 1:40.9

1000 2:10.55

1500 3:27.98

1-mile 3:45.36

3000 7:37.98

2-mile 8:15.86

5000 13:35.57

10000 29:34.77

Not sure why he thinks the 1500/mile is too far to run against the "miler guys" :p

Rudisha800 wrote:

Interested in who he'll compete against. Would love to see Makhloufi & Souleiman in this to give Rudisha a run for his money. I see him taking out conservative & kicking hard but sometimes he doesn't kick hard enough so it'll be very interesting

Souileman (like dibaba) is no longer what he once was with the new light on Aden. Makhloufi is strangely retired (having just turned 29- 2 months ago). You may draw your own conclusions.

Considering he had to be talked into doing the 800m event, I'm surprised he didn't do this much sooner.

If he is successful at 1000m, doing 1500m should be a no brainer.

stats.gangsta_the_real_1 wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

We may never get to see him in a 1500 so this may be the next best thing...

"....People are always asking me how would I run at 1500. I always say that's too far to run against the miler guys!"....

One publicly unstated goal could be the meeting record of 2:15:08..

Using Rudisha's 45.5 & 1:40.9, these are the times I get for him:

100 0:10.78

200 0:20.81

400 0:45.5

800 1:40.9

1000 2:10.55

1500 3:27.98

1-mile 3:45.36

3000 7:37.98

2-mile 8:15.86

5000 13:35.57

10000 29:34.77

Not sure why he thinks the 1500/mile is too far to run against the "miler guys" :p

I always think that conversions, including the IAAF points system, overestimate equivalent times for 1000m.

I agree that a 1:41.0 and 3:27 high are roughly equivalent, but I don't think a 2:10.5 is. I think 2:11.0 is closer.

Time and time again So called experts predict near world record times in 1000m, for anyone with a 1:43 ability, and every time they come up well short. No one has broken 2:13 in 18 years. I think tonight's run in Ostrava underlines that Rudisha is either nowhere near the force he was, or else never had the endurance to last to 1000m. To go through 800 in 1:52 and only finish in 27.0 is quite starting.

Sadly Rudisha doesn't look close to his best so far this year. Despite him saying that training has been going well, it doesn't look hopeful for him at world's. Would love to see him run fast again at London