That’s a good time but we got Graham Blanks and Nico Young who have both run faster as collegians. Cole is fantastic in the 1500, but expected way more out of him in the 5k than this.
This will look dumb when Hocker goes sub-13 in LA.
Well I think he wanted sub 13 based on how they went out but this was fine. It’s April in an Olympic year so this tells me when everything gets going he’ll be a 12:55-59 runner. That’s fantastic for a 1500 specialist. Nuguse ran like 13:02 at the peak of the indoor season at BU right?
Well I think he wanted sub 13 based on how they went out but this was fine. It’s April in an Olympic year so this tells me when everything gets going he’ll be a 12:55-59 runner. That’s fantastic for a 1500 specialist. Nuguse ran like 13:02 at the peak of the indoor season at BU right?
This is just to get a fast time and experience at 5k. Look for a sub13 attempt from him and cooper in LA
From the results, Cooper Teare was pacing him at least until 3 laps to go. Teare was at 10:04.32, Hocker at 10:04.51 at 3800m, and nothing for Teare at the 4200m mark. So yes, in some sense a solo effort, but it's not like he had no help.
From the results, Cooper Teare was pacing him at least until 3 laps to go. Teare was at 10:04.32, Hocker at 10:04.51 at 3800m, and nothing for Teare at the 4200m mark. So yes, in some sense a solo effort, but it's not like he had no help.
That’s a good time but we got Graham Blanks and Nico Young who have both run faster as collegians. Cole is fantastic in the 1500, but expected way more out of him in the 5k than this.
Graham Blanks ran 13:37 at this meet like 20 minutes before Cole’s race!
International championship 1500m races, who usually win? The best 1000m athlete in the race, not the best 5000m runner. I went back to 1956 Olympic. The best 5000m man in 1500m Olympic final usually won only about four to six times.
From the results, Cooper Teare was pacing him at least until 3 laps to go. Teare was at 10:04.32, Hocker at 10:04.51 at 3800m, and nothing for Teare at the 4200m mark. So yes, in some sense a solo effort, but it's not like he had no help.
In what sense is having a pacer for most of the race a solo effort?
Eh, I think they meant that he was alone after the pacer dropped out, with absolutely no one else to race against (not even far-behind competitors). I was pointing out that whatever they meant by it he wasn't alone the whole way. A further argument about the meaning of the word 'solo' is probably not valuable.
That’s a good time but we got Graham Blanks and Nico Young who have both run faster as collegians. Cole is fantastic in the 1500, but expected way more out of him in the 5k than this.
He text me earlier in the week saying it was tempo pace. If he was runn9ng it seriously he would go 34 seconds faster
That’s a good time but we got Graham Blanks and Nico Young who have both run faster as collegians. Cole is fantastic in the 1500, but expected way more out of him in the 5k than this.
Hocker is a 1500m specialist and ran 29 seconds faster than Graham yesterday running by himself. You can’t go on past performances with Blanks, who is recovering from injury and is only 60 days out from the trials. Young is a great runner but if the 5k trials race is tactical he has to be concerned about Hocker’s closing speed. Hocker ran well, solo.
And I might add the heat that Graham and Wolfe were running wasn’t designed to get the Olympic standard. It was to not go hard and get your NCAA regional qualifier
Wtf was that. Stayed at wake past my bedtime to watch the 1 man 5000m heat, a heat that could’ve been ran within the top collegiate heat with 0 lane traffic I might add!!! Vanoppen was class (and a much better runner) to be pacing the first couple of 5000m heats. But then we get wisner and tooker on the track. Two dudes that are struggling 1k-2k into the race just to run 63s!!!!!! Needed better pacers to get this going- and a couple collegians even 100m??? Back to sniff those guys down. Not sure why they always tt in races, teare cannot race worth a damn as is!!!! This is his prime Olympic year!!!! Lets see this man make a freaking team bruh!!
Cole Hocker rocks. That was awesome in Tokyo when he and five others broke the previous 1500m Olympic record. Hope to see even better things happening this Olympics.