I changed his 800 to 1:47.5 to account for imperfect pacing and based it off the indoor 5000 instead (he was dragged the entire way in Cali). I'd place him at 3:50.x / 7:27 / 12:53 / 26:50
With 800m left in the 10000m at the Olympics, he will be able to look to his right and look to his left and tell himself that nobody there has ever run a sub 1:48 (unless Almgren runs the 10000m of course)
Then he'll look in front of him and see 6 East Africans, a Norwegian and grant fisher.
Norwegian?
Who?
They only have one sub 29:00 guy (2023/2024), Mezngi in 27:41.
6 East Africans in front of him? Who? Only 3 East Africans achieved a sub 27 in 2023 and only 2 this year.
Also, Grant Fisher is not significantly faster than Nico right now.
Because the only way for a distance runner to earn Rojo’s respect is by having a fast 800m PR.
Or by dropping out of a mile at the 1400m mark. Athing Mu got RoJo's respect for that one.
But after what happened later for Athing Mu in the Trials 1500m, who today thinks that he wasn't right to talk up her 1500m capacities at that point? She would be our best 1500m runner if she gave it half a chance.
They only have one sub 29:00 guy (2023/2024), Mezngi in 27:41.
6 East Africans in front of him? Who? Only 3 East Africans achieved a sub 27 in 2023 and only 2 this year.
Also, Grant Fisher is not significantly faster than Nico right now.
6 is probably right. Likely 2 of Barega, Kejelcha, Aregawi. Ebenyo, and at least 1 other Kenyan will be strong, probably 2. Then the 2 Ugandans. You have to account for road times as well as Cheptegei got 6th at World XC after cruising a 26:49. But Nico should feel he can hang especially if they don’t start pushing early.
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Then he'll look in front of him and see 6 East Africans, a Norwegian and grant fisher.
Norwegian?
Who?
They only have one sub 29:00 guy (2023/2024), Mezngi in 27:41.
6 East Africans in front of him? Who? Only 3 East Africans achieved a sub 27 in 2023 and only 2 this year.
Also, Grant Fisher is not significantly faster than Nico right now.
I lol’d at the embedded comment regardless of whether or not it’s accurate.
Agreed on the Norwegian contention for sure. Will there even be any Norwegians in the race?
The East Africans though? It doesn’t matter that only 3 of them ran sub-27 last year: they went 1-5 in Budapest, and 8 of the top 10. Plenty could break 27 in a setup like The Ten. Want six names? Easy: Cheptegei, Kiplimo, Barega, Kejelcha, Aregawi, Ebenyo.
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Dang THOUGHTSLEADER got the jump on me
he's working on his speed. after The Ten he said he'd be doing more 800 and 1500's this outdoor season.
Racing an 800m won’t make him faster and since he’s a 5/10 guy, he’s can only improve himself at any distance by working on his strength. There’s no such thing as trading strength for speed.
He ran the 800 and mile at the Big Sky indoor championships two weeks before winning the NCAA indoor 3,000 and 5,000 championships. Looks like mixing in shorter distance races is working out well for him.
It's not how it works when figuring out how fast we can run at off distances you plug in the times that he has run and work from there not maybe what he could run or possibly what he could run or he's run 27:15 when he's really around 26 and change etc etc etc
With 800m left in the 10000m at the Olympics, he will be able to look to his right and look to his left and tell himself that nobody there has ever run a sub 1:48 (unless Almgren runs the 10000m of course)
Then he'll look in front of him and see 6 East Africans, a Norwegian and grant fisher.
Of course there'll be at least three ahead of Fisher.