Geordie Beamish 8:42 Steeple Debut

Mark Rowland, bronze medallist, '88 Seoul Olympics (8:07.96--current British record)

What was Jager’s debut?

Don´t know but Jakob ran 8:26 at age 16.

I like Geordie Beamish but your logic is entirely skewed. The goal of any footrace is to run fast.

Based on coffee club podcast:

1. Ritz wanted him to try

2. His preparation was doing a few hurdles and never the water jump

3. He probably just ran for the win

8:42 is fine we all know this race isn't important

to be fair Ritz in the beginning of OAC was coaching Alicja Konieczek (steepler), Emily Oren (steepler), and Leah Falland (steepler), so he knows what he’s doing.

I love Beamish but he is just probably not gonna make waves at a WC final in the 1500, and in his pod talks about being frustrated having ran last year as basically a 5K specialist. His sweetspot distance seems to be the 3,000, so might as well try that out with the steeple in a couple low key meets. Why not?

Ty for posting.

looked like a good race.

Beamish said on the pod he wanted to make sure he had enough in the tank for the last lap. Looked like saving a bit helped him balance out the occasional roughness.

there was a 8:31 at Brian Clay, but Geordie would have been 5th out of 132 and only a couple seconds off 2nd. not bad, watching it live it was just a slow tactical race first half and who was he to push it first time out. he did stutter step, but he looked as good as any with his jumps.

1) bad move for beamish- seems fragile and easily injured

2) as a general premise, don’t listen to anything that mark Rowland tells you.

To be fair, where are all of those 3 that you mentioned?

Beamish is a natural miler - his best event by far. Watch him at the Penn Relays. It would be a waste of talent to see him melt in the 100 degree heat of the Paris Olympics 5K final next year. He was in the wrong event for the last two years. The steeple is just a lark - a frolicsome adventure.

He is listed as running the steeple for the Sound Running Meet on May 6th so I feel like that will give us a better indication of where his ability if he practices some more hurdles in the break.

He is does not run a ton of miles because of injury history so I could see him being very cautious first time out because if he decides it’s not for him, no harm done. Practicing for steeple and racing it are very different imo. The extra bodies are an important stimulus.

Interested to hear his opinions of it on the pod next week!

I feel like he’s wasting his time running the steeple. I get that 3k seems to be his best distance, but an 8:42 steeple ain’t turning any heads, even if it’s a win.

For some athletes, their first steeple is usually run cautiously, it is more about getting a feel for the event and not getting hurt. Based on his flat events, he will run faster next time out.

How many of those did Ritz coach in hurdle technique? All three ran the steeple before going to work with Ritz so they had that background, Ritz just needed to coach them as distance runners. Beamish is going from zero steeple experience, he'll need a specialist hurdles coach.

I'd say Beamish's chances of making a 1500 final at Worlds are better than his chances of making a steeple final.

Call me when the performance "seems too good to be believable" so I can speculate on doping.

Also call me when he's more than 2 seconds faster than Beatrice Chepkoech.