You know why everyone like Ingebrigtsen? He’s raced Sunday, will again this Thursday, will twice next week at Euros, etc

Wasn´t you one of the biased British posters who piously predicted that Jakob wouldn´t come back to his former level after his achilles injury?

And now you are "worried" that he competes too much?!

As a former elite (veteran) runner I will repeat: Nothing sharpens better than racing as long as you allow yourself to recover between the races.

Rounds in the 1500m in the European Championship will be sharpeners for Jakob as he doesn´t need to go all in before the final.

No I was not. Get your facts right before you launch accusations.

I’m pointing out that he’s taking a different approach to other athletes. And often underperforms when it matters. What a strange bunch you Jakob fans are..

I think we can conclude that NOT everyone like Ingebrigtsen.

A certain crop here use every opportunity to denigrate him and paint him as an utter failure.

I think that is the destiny of great runners. They attract all kind of negative and even malicious people.

Barney, Trollminator, Armstrong, The yorkshire guy and many other more anonymous people.

Oh and it’s ‘weren’t you’ not ‘wasn’t you’. Though with your reading comprehension I wouldn’t expect strong grammar skills.

Well, this year Josh Kerr has set a world record, got a gold medal, and set a national record whilst beating Jakob. And he's run more than him this year up to this point. I think we can forgive him for not being a regular on the DL circuit

I actually quite like him. I don’t think I’ve criticised him on here. Just pointed out that an aggressive racing schedule coming off an achilles injury in an Olympic year is an unusual approach. It will probably work out for him though.

The fact that you can't tell that English is clearly not his first language, and that you chose to be a pedant over it to cover how weak your arguments is quite petty indeed.

Good point. I think Jakob's most crazy racing schedule ever was in August 2017:

Thursday 24.08 evening:
800m Zurich: 1:49.40 (2nd place)
Friday 25.08:
18:00 National Championships 800m(q): 1:54.89
19:35 National Championships 5000m final: 13:35.84 (1st place)
Saturday 26.08:
13:35 National Championships 1500m (q): 3:58.93
15:45 National Championships 800m final: 1:50.54 (3rd place)
16:25 National Championships 3000m steeplechase final: 8:44.12 (1st place)
Sunday 27.08:
14:05 National Championships 1500m final: 3:53.29 (1st place)
While still only 16. Unreal.

(And one week after that he competed in the National Youth Championship. He ran a 400m in 51.03, and finished 2nd (the winner ran 49.56), and 70 minutes after that he ran the 3000m and won in 8:00.01 (2nd and 3rd place ran 8:33.11 and 8:33.99))

And september last year in Eugene was also ridiculous. 3:43.73 in the mile and 7:23.63 in the 3000m less than 24 hours apart.

Now he begins the anerobic phase (speed) of his training in addition to getting race ready.

this.. these races may as well be speed sessions with international training partners to prep for paris

There needs to be a war between Norway and Great Britain. Backdrop of the Falklands War at the 1986 World Cup. All the amazing U.S. - Soviet clashes on the track. Something has to give.

The 4x1500m should be an official medal event at the Olympics. Starting in Paris.

Norway's team: Jakob, Narve, Filip, Henrik

Great Britain's team: Kerr, Wightman, Gourley, and I'll guess Mills, Giles and Heyward has to fight for the 4th spot.

(The WR for the 1500m is 14:22.22 (Kenyan team in Nassau 2014) that is an average of 3:35.56 per leg)

He’s on the “Recovery+” schedule. Just needs to make sure it’s kept on the down-low.

henrik and filip aren't top 4 1500m runners in norway anymore unfortunately. Actually there was a 17 year old who ran 3.37 there last week which is faster than both henrik and filip.

Is it possible that he is fit enough that the frequent races (at paces few others can hold) are all just training for him? Threshold runs as part of a race, and yes speed sessions with international training partners.

He and his body are still rather young, and youth allows him to get away with things others can't.

He primarily races 1500s on the best tracks in the world wearing superspikes. Three and a half minutes of up tempo running once a week or so is not pounding his legs to mush.

He wins most of his races, which provides positive reinforcement for racing so much.

We are fortunate that he is a competitive guy that likes to/wants to race.

Who knows how long he can sustain this. He likely believes it is better to burn out than to fade away.

Other athletes would also love to do this, if they could.

Too bad he's moving to LA next year to be coached by Kersee. Bye bye frequent racing.

JUST KIDDING!

Semi-related: Jakob and Tim are lined up side-by-side tomorrow. It’ll warm my heart if Tim parks himself behind the second pacer Boaz Kiprugut and we get the old battle. Sure Jakob should prevail, but fun to see a non-deferential Tim if that’s what we get.

The point here is not the optimal olympic strategy, the point is what makes people like Jakob. I think more people would enjoy running as a sport in general if everyone did like him/ if the incentive was towards racing more often.

yeah but both ollie and kerr are on quality-based programs relying on a peak. Jakob isnt, but uses a longer more frequent racing schedule for his stimulus, not that he really needs it, because he never really drops volume. I'd say hes playing it safer that way anyway, and probs recovers from racing way better than kerr(Jakob was able to back up to win 5000 twice) Besides his injury was an achilles in the winter most likely from trying to increase milage.