I love Laura for her toughness, but this season she has not looked like herself. I'm pointing she's simply peaking for Paris, but I fear she's on the downside (of a great career).
She's over the hill. It's a bad distance for her. blah, blah blah. She ran a 9:04 2 mile last month.
And…She’s obviously still good at the distance, but if Medina Eisa is beating you (DQ notwithstanding) you are not gonna beat the best in the world at the distance. 9:04 isn’t so fast when several women could break 14 in the 5k this year.
nah. 3000m not her distance. Doesn’t have the endurance for this kind of 3000m pace. Not like she’s going to step up to the 5k outdoors. Its 1500m or nothing for her.
The disappointment for me was Jess Hull - last 200-400m killed her chances. Can anyone explain why she moved back to Australia with the perfect set up in the USA? she’s clearly more of a 3-5k type, but that just means altitude training is crucial. Australia is extremely flat - no altitude to speak of - and very far to get to any decent altitude. In America, you can live in large cities and towns with perfect altitude. Many towns and cities across NM, AZ, UT etc..what’s she doing back in Australia.. for me, that makes all the difference on that last 1-2 laps. Anyone know? Would love to see what succeed.
She may have run better if she would've relaxed more up front instead of jostling w Tsegay in the first few laps. She ran that part like she was in an 800 instead of a 3k. She actually pissed off Tsegay noticably. She probably would've still got 4th but her wasted energy was apparent at the end and she fell out of contention on the final lap.
...Hull definitely did a great job as a pacer for ESP though. Taller and definitely didn't lose a step to Tsegay and Chepkoach, ESP stuck right with Hull until 400 to go and ESP used that to perfection.
nah. 3000m not her distance. Doesn’t have the endurance for this kind of 3000m pace. Not like she’s going to step up to the 5k outdoors. Its 1500m or nothing for her.
The disappointment for me was Jess Hull - last 200-400m killed her chances. Can anyone explain why she moved back to Australia with the perfect set up in the USA? she’s clearly more of a 3-5k type, but that just means altitude training is crucial. Australia is extremely flat - no altitude to speak of - and very far to get to any decent altitude. In America, you can live in large cities and towns with perfect altitude. Many towns and cities across NM, AZ, UT etc..what’s she doing back in Australia.. for me, that makes all the difference on that last 1-2 laps. Anyone know? Would love to see what succeed.
She prefers living in Australia, that’s why. It was a life decision.
Two mile and 3 mile have a strong correlation. If a person is a good 2 miler a person will often be a good 3 miler. Two mile and three mile performances have a stronger correlation than 100 yard dash and 220 yard dash. Even though 3000m is a bit shorter than 2 miles and 5000m is a bit longer than 3 miles and 100m is longer than 100 yards and 200m is shorter than 220 yards, 3000m and 5000m, in aggregate are more correlated than 100m and 200m.
Laura Muir has raced her share of 3000m and 5000m races but when we review her personal bests, Laura Muir is an 800m & 1500m athlete. It is not fair to expect Laura Muir to race 3000m as well as 5000m athletes.
The question should not be: Why wasn't Laura Muir challenging for the win? Laura Muir raced 3000m today about 3 seconds slower than her personal best. Three seconds slower than personal best in a 3000m race! It could be anything.
I love Laura for her toughness, but this season she has not looked like herself. I'm pointing she's simply peaking for Paris, but I fear she's on the downside (of a great career).
Muir has a new coach now and they've actually been doing endurance training. Previously she had only done hard intervals. She did an interview and said it was going great and she felt amazing. Looks like it actually hasn't been going great.
When a Kenyan NR is set, you know the pace is quick.
Or you know it's indoors.
3000 is faster indoors than out, pretty consistently. Only real outlier at this point is 7:20. Blame it on rarely being run outdoors (I blame banked turns) but there it is anyhow. Kenyans don't focus on indoors
There is marginal altitude in Australia. A lot of Australian distance runners traditionally go to Falls Creek stretching back to John Landy. But it's not that high (but very nice) with trails etc.
This race was simply too fast for Muir. She's an 800/1500 athlete who doesn't trains at low mileage. By her own admission, she only started doing threshold work for the first time in her entire career late last year. She has run 1:56 for 800, and 3:54 for 1500 but only 14:48 for 5000. She's very similar to Jake Wightman is his is also and elite 800/1500 runner but would get stomped in a British Championships over 50000. Muir can grind out a good 3k but she was always hoping for mistakes from the Ethiopians just to medal, and was never seriously going to compete for the win against Tsegay. Add in Chepkoech who we know is strong over 5000 as well as the steeple, plus a career-defining performance from St Pierre and it left Muir with a mountain to climb. She'll be fine when it gets to the outdoor season and she's back in the 1500
They ran a 64 first lap, which probably feels like 1500m pace for Laura, at this stage of the year.
She said afterwards that she felt like she would've blown up if she tried to be on the pace early.
Most people aren't disciplined enough to actually listen to their body in situations like this, but she obviously is. Seems like she got the best result she possibly could on the day.
nah. 3000m not her distance. Doesn’t have the endurance for this kind of 3000m pace. Not like she’s going to step up to the 5k outdoors. Its 1500m or nothing for her.
The disappointment for me was Jess Hull - last 200-400m killed her chances. Can anyone explain why she moved back to Australia with the perfect set up in the USA? she’s clearly more of a 3-5k type, but that just means altitude training is crucial. Australia is extremely flat - no altitude to speak of - and very far to get to any decent altitude. In America, you can live in large cities and towns with perfect altitude. Many towns and cities across NM, AZ, UT etc..what’s she doing back in Australia.. for me, that makes all the difference on that last 1-2 laps. Anyone know? Would love to see what succeed.
I believe she moved back to Australia to be with her husband and family.
Lots of Australians do altitude camps at Falls Creek, which is roughly 1550-1600m high (not too far off the elevation of boulder).
Listening to the BBC commentary, when it was clear she was or of the race they were still saying she was in the race. When partisan punditry takes the place of informed commentary.
Not true. When it was clear she was holding the gap but no longer closing, they said so. Grumpy agenda much?
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