Video of Josh Kerr reacting to 3:43 miles from Jakob

Oh my god, an athlete that cares about his nutrition?? And he even did some exercise? Good Lord, that is some insane in the membrane levels of commitment to the sport, he deserves all the rest he can get.

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You ripped on runners for skipping the Bislett games of all unimportant races, but defend to the death Wightman and Kerr ducking.

1. That's a lot of excuses for his loss to Nuguse.

2. We can conjecture as much as we'd like about how far back he would have been from Jakob. That's what happens when you don't show up- people can conjecture as much as they would like. Show up and run and that won't happen.

Yeah but "you" will never be overall considered nearly as good as Jakob. You know it, we all know it, and it will always make you jealous.

[ But yes, he and his coach can always say- " we'll always have Budapest."]

Yes, that’s kind of true. -He has said he won’t run hilly Worlds xc. -He lives in this reality, so why should he run something he has no talent in (meaning: bodyweight). But he hasn’t ruled out World xc in a normal course…

Kerrs only thought is “I guess I’m in 3:43 shape.”

No disrespect to Kerr, but I think I can speak for the super casual fan when I say people remember epic performances more than an individual title. Couldn't tell you who most world champions have been in any given year, but I remember records or near world record efforts. The guy should have been there, it might have been even more legendary.

Someone should make a meme of Kerr watching the 3:43 on his couch.

Remi beat carpenter on the uphill

dakota beat him on the downhill

Ricardo ran 2:21 and 2:24.

I think the record is breakable if someone is obsessively willing enough to really go for it.

#whynotwalmsley? I’d rather seen him take utmb Lower

European Indoors were less than 2 weeks later where he doubled. That's why even bigger European nations didn't even send full teams to Bathurst. It was poor scheduling. By my count *zero* athletes did the Bathurst-Istanbul double.

At the time he said he wished he could do both and hoped the schedule and travel was better in the future.

(It kind of is this year? World indoors and XC are both in Europe with just under 3 weeks between them. Might be hard to be prepared for a world indoors 1500 and a 10k XC race in the same month but I'd like to see him do it)

Have you thought this through? Perhaps you're right, I've given it some thought and remember an example that supports your opinion.

There once was this unknown runner called Mohammed Farah, by some known only as Mo Farah. This runner rarely wanted to run for fast times, wasn't a fan of time trialing or going for the world records. He did however do quite alright in championships, but only the inner core of track and field really remember him, as the public (casual fans) only remember EPIC races like all the great runs by Kejelcha in DL etc. True, who remembers a winner in the most sought after competitions? Did Jakob win the Olympics? Can't really remember, I only remember the last race I watched on tv.

People have different goals. Kerr achieved the one he set for himself.

But Mo Farah won 10 global golds, and was almost never beaten during his best years. That's a bit different, isn't it?

He didn't dodge anybody, are you kidding me? The whole point of the season is to win the world championships. Everyone was there. He won. He had nothing to dodge. This diamond league crap is for people who want a paycheck or want to make up for their failures at worlds.

Outside of the once-a-year championships, the Diamond League consists of the most competitive races that are available. The Final typically has the best fields all season. So no, not really. I wouldn't call it "crap" either, as these are the most enjoyable races to watch by a long shot outside of a couple events at National Championships.

List of world champions who showed up to this “diamond league crap:”

Lyles

Holloway

Warholm

Arop

Ingebrigtsen

Duplantis

Crouser

Chopra

Richardson

Jackson

Paulino

Bol

Moraa

Kipyegon

Tsegay

Mahuchikh

Kennedy

Moon

Rojas

No need to put down all of these athletes just because your guy dodged.

It is oddly specific and super sad that an anti-Kerr (specifically Kerr) mod on the board would use that moderation to keep a Kerr trash talk thread like this promoted while deleting equivalently fun trash talk threads for other runners. You can count the number of non-news sh it talk threads that are allowed on one hand, so when you see one its intentional. ultimate fanboy power I guess, but stop being such a toddler about it and either delete them all or let us sh it talk everyone equally, it’s just a bit of fun.