Aaron Sahlman > Colin and all the Youngs

sasdadadf wrote:

I think the worst take I've ever seen on Letsrun was you saying that Athing Mu showed her true greatness by dropping out of the Millrose mile.

Nope that was a good take.

Hold up Rojo, you forgot to include a very critical thing. Let me correct you about Jacob Kiplimo:

When Kiplimo was "15" he ran 7:52/13:13/27:26.

At "16" he ran 7:43/13:13.

At "17", he ran an 8:25 2 mile.

At "19", he ran 7:26/12:48/58:49

At "20", he ran 26:33/57:37.

The air quotes make it a lot more accurate, since there's not a single chance in hell that guy is actually 20 years old

westsouthrunner wrote:

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

I think the worst take I've ever seen on Letsrun was you saying that Athing Mu showed her true greatness by dropping out of the Millrose mile.

Lol. Truth

You're saying that Mu actually going for the win completely out of her element against a 4:16 miler as a 48-49/1:55 woman and falling short of it about 300m shy of the finish being completely gassed is a worse take than suggesting our best high schoolers are comparable to another young but slightly older athlete that already has a world record to his name.

Kiplimo as of age 21 has

Olympic bronze

World half marathon title

World junior record 10k

World junior xc champion

3k national record 7:26

12:48 5k

When he was 16 he was already a sub 13:20 guy. You guys are comparing guys who's current 5k level is around 13:45-14:00 to a guy who was a good 40 seconds faster than them at the same age

The latter take is definitely arguably one of the worse takes on this site.[/quote]

Wrong. I gave her plenty of respect here and elsewhere for attempting to compete at a distance outside of her comfort zone. More athletes should have the stones to do that. But dropping out was weak. It's not like she was attempting a marathon. Fine, whatever. Forgettable. But then for there to be a long post praising here for dropping out was just weird. If, say, Cole Hocker or Bryce Hoppel attempted a half marathon and dropped out at 10 miles, no one would post about how heroic their effort was. Everyone would think, "dude, you knew the length of the race."

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

westsouthrunner wrote:

Lol. Truth

You're saying that Mu actually going for the win completely out of her element against a 4:16 miler as a 48-49/1:55 woman and falling short of it about 300m shy of the finish being completely gassed is a worse take than suggesting our best high schoolers are comparable to another young but slightly older athlete that already has a world record to his name.

Kiplimo as of age 21 has

Olympic bronze

World half marathon title

World junior record 10k

World junior xc champion

3k national record 7:26

12:48 5k

When he was 16 he was already a sub 13:20 guy. You guys are comparing guys who's current 5k level is around 13:45-14:00 to a guy who was a good 40 seconds faster than them at the same age

The latter take is definitely arguably one of the worse takes on this site.

Wrong. I gave her plenty of respect here and elsewhere for attempting to compete at a distance outside of her comfort zone. More athletes should have the stones to do that. But dropping out was weak. It's not like she was attempting a marathon. Fine, whatever. Forgettable. But then for there to be a long post praising here for dropping out was just weird. If, say, Cole Hocker or Bryce Hoppel attempted a half marathon and dropped out at 10 miles, no one would post about how heroic their effort was. Everyone would think, "dude, you knew the length of the race."[/quote]

If hoppel jumped in a 5k against someone like Justyn Knight or Hocker ran a 10k against Grant Fisher and beat him and ran to win but didn't quite make it they'd most definitely get praise for going for it. Especially Cole. Half the posters are already overly excited to crown him as the best kicker/ future world champ at the 1500. Think about the respect Alan Webb has for running his 10k. Beating Ritz in the process if I'm not mistaken.

Haha whoops forgot to hop off my main account.

As i was saying, Jacob Kiplimo is the goat and saying a couple mediocre kids from the G League could ever beat any one of Kiplimo's PRs is the worst take in the history of LetsRun.com.

Bump

Rojo, aren't you the one who is always insinuating that Easy Africans lie about their age?

2 mile might be his jam? They are literally the same person, whatever their jam is, its gotta be the same for both.

Right?

This aged extremely well.

I can’t believe I have to spell this out. The “G league” referring to the G league in basketball (semipros). He’s saying they are not as fast as the real pros (Jakob, Jacob, Cheptegei or Kipchoge)

Did it though? I saw you posted this right after he won NXN.

LOL

Is he update? He hasn't seemed to have raced since his 4:20 mile last winter.

Heard a little birdie saying he stopped running to focus on Academics. Not sure if we should give any credence to it though.

Little birdie must be a comedian

Is he update? :(

lol

There is no question that you nailed this one. Well done!

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/94055/5803140/NAU_Tune_Up/Mens-800-Meters
https://www.tfrrs.org/results/xc/27196/Nuttycombe_Invitational

Very sad to see this kid disappear from the scene. His times were not the best this year 4:30/1:57/50.x 400m. Confused how he isn’t able to run a low 1:50 800m with the 50.x speed. Still has a chance at something with that speed. If he can come back and run a 1:47 by senior year, that’s a win in my opinion. Especially when he’s headed on the Michael Slagowski trajectory.

If things don’t come together, he will definitely be one of the biggest “what ifs” in American running we’ve had. His brother is on pace to be at least a 3:29 guy, you’re lying to me if you’re saying Aaron wasn’t at least a 3:35 guy if everything went perfectly after hs.