If Jakob breaks all world records from the 1500 to the 10k in the next two years, what would you do?

More to the point - what will you do if he doesn't?

If Jakob sets the WRs there will be a lot of people saying “I told you so”.

I would bawl my eyes out

But you are talking too much.

Do you think that Jakob was the first having this idea of 1500-10000m WR.

People were talking about it some 40 years ago.

If you thing that "Jakob is a prophet born in the middle desert" then talk him about the fact "he never consider racing for the 800m"?

Is that a divine revelation that came to him or he is simply imitating old experiences.

At least I read an article where David Rudisha was inspired and watching the style of some old athletes and among them Aouita.

Then I will swap him with my number two on the list -Narve Gilje Nordås (yes, I’m a Norwegian dreamer!)…

You've got to hope neither of them gets busted.

I would be prepared to welcome, Jesus, our lord and savior, on his prophesied return at last. In addition, I would recommend the temp in hell be checked for frozen ranges.

Do you think his brain uses too much energy Hoad?

Haha Passant, yes Aouita was talking about it. The WRs should have already been 3:27 (Coe/Ovett) and 12:50 (Moorcroft) when Aouita came along.

Look at this guy ... he is frightening isn't he?

He had no father, no uncle and no brothers that help him.

And you are going to hate this and I will repeat it:

The day (1983) when he set the performance of the 3mins 32, he slept 2 days in a woody chair of a train station of Italia.

Unless you bring someone that cause-to-effect a generation of talents Boutayeb-Skah-Morceli-ElGuerouj he can compare to him.

I would phone him up and ask if he doped.

He might say he did it blindfolded. But I think he could lose a few times to the next guy.

I agree with you this time, and I'm a Jakob's fanboy.

Kristian Blummenfelt. Not an elite runner but can definitely put up sub elite running times while being the world’s best triathlete.

Ingebrigsten should have the mile thru 5k (not 1500m or 10k). He has skills and range to do this. Would be amazing to see.

I think he can do it for the 5k and the 10k, he's not made any serious attempts at the record for those distances yet. I'm less sure about the 1500 because that would probably require a time trial race.

same thing I did before he broke the records.

It would have no real effect on my life.

So what would we do if Jakob makes it to the moon?

^That is nothing if not a time trial race. 3 pacers - 2 vets of the circuit and McSweyn, a 3:29 guy, + wavelight. Jakob is given the pole position and none of the other racers go ahead of him at any point. I see posters say he didn’t get good pacing because he was a few meters off the pace for parts of the race, but even then he would have gotten some wind-blocking and importantly had someone to chase, to pull him along. All the way to 1200m. And that gap he allowed was by choice, because it’s very important to him to not go too deep too early, so I don’t think we’ll ever see him go out in 1:48/1:49 like El Guerrouj or Kiprop. It may not have been a perfect setup, but it’s better than most have ever gotten and will be hard to count on any better.