Josh Kerr’s interesting season so far…he is not a racer or a champion

Fact-checking you're avoided indoors line for the top contenders:

Jakob- injured (otherwise runs)
Tim- injured (so yes, but would typically run XC and a busy early outdoor schedule if not)
Komen- ran indoors
Nuguse- ran indoors
Hocker- ran indoors
Reynold- planned to run indoors, but had visa troubles so did World XC instead
Nordas- ran indoors
Habz- ran indoors, but was banged-up so skipped World Indoors
Gourley- injured
Hoare -injured, ran Aussie early season
Nader- ran indoors
Laros- injured, but was running road races instead
Mario - ran indoors
Mills - ran indoors, but did skip Worlds
Wightman- ran indoors and Aussie early season

Kerr is an outlier, not for his indoors which was pretty standard. It's for his outdoors, where he is running only 1 competitive race at his distance. Nobody else (minus an injured Laros) has fewer than 3 I believe. And most have 4-6. He takes it to the extreme, which he's allowed to do. But it's allowed to be criticized.

Yes I’m including all athletes - so women too. Many did miss indoors and start their season late. Everyone had their own schedule but we are seeing more caution in this Olympic year.

For example Kerr and Wightman got crucified for missing the Euros (Kerr doesn’t actually run the Euros often) yet Laura Muir missed them and no criticism. Was the right choice for her as she just knocked out a PB.

Of course you can criticise him for not racing much. But there will be a very clear strategy behind this designed for him to peak at the Olympics. I personally accept that.

Look I'm a Kerr Lover because GB is my favorite country on planet earth. I love quaint old Scotland and England, from the North to the South Downs, I take great delight in the sense experiences there. I also love the people of GB and the GB English Accent which is my favorite. Of course the weather is great year round and the people are really charming although sometimes very exacting in terms of certain manners and attitudes towards one another.

I'm not a GB patriot but I'm a GB lover, you feeling me sir???????? I don't hate America or anything but rather if anything America has taught me many things about anthropogenic RF pollution and I learnt many things from American institutions and RF experts as well!!!! But the RF environment in America is out of control and the people in its cities almost fully brain-damaged and zombied due to RF exposure. They don't speak properly, don't behave and act properly unlike GB persons.

Josh Kerr is an American product but totally GB at heart and he retains most of his GB roots and tradition in his manners. He certainly has much better manners than the Viking Jakob and women will be enchanted with men with better manners for sure.

Mind you, Josh has a better much larger stride when sprinting for home in the final 200m against Jakob and will definitely not lose to Jakob in the Paris 1500m final, I'm sure man!!!!!

Josh might not race often but he says he will soon. He just wants to nail the Olympic gold and he will take it easy from there. Even El G raced like every week during the Golden League in the 1990s and still won world championships and nearly won 2 extra Olympic 1500m golds in 96 and 2000.

Josh is a tactical genius and strategist who understands and appreciates the beauty of winning ONCE. He takes pleasure in ONE, in SINGULAR or SINGULARITY, you feeling me Noah????? Josh isn't a man of excess or extravagance from the way of his prudence in channeling and protecting all resources to conserve and harness that SINGLE ONE ENJOYMENT AND PLEASURE, that's why Josh is the dream of every woman who can get their hands on him!!!! Josh is every woman's keeper!!!!!!!!!!!! Josh will be hence a loyal husband to only 1 singular wife as well. Josh will hence also be loyal to only 1 God.

Loyalty is an indispensable cause and consequence of ONE and of SINGULAR!!!!!!! You can only ever be loyal if there is only 1 pleasure!!!!! And that's a very moral and upright man of honor that is Josh Kerr!!!!!!!!!

Kudos to Great Britain and kudos to Josh Kerr.

Beating Nuguse and Barega who is only good at the 10k is not impressive. Where are the top 3k guys? This was also 5 months ago and was indoors so I don't care.

All 5 months ago. Indoors pales in comparison to outdoors and his only impressive performance from those three were the 8:00 2 mile. That is barely anything.

What???? Barega only good at 5k???? What are you reading, Barega has 7:25 solo indoor performance in 2024 all by himself, probably 7:20 with pacing and good competition already indoors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barega closed in 25.9 seconds at world indoors too, which is very good kicking ability.

Nuguse is also very good himself with a 3:43 mile and 3:29 1500m, and a 7:27 indoor 3k. Kerr beat them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

indoor 3k is not impressive. Not long ago people were saying that Indoor medals were not that impressive due to majority of the competition not appearing there. Crazy how people turn their opinions around. 8:00 indoors is good except for the fact that he was paced for 90% of it. Would have probably run a few seconds slower. Also, I am talking about outdoors, not indoors.

Barega is known for his 10k ability. Any distance closer to the 1500m and he will lose to 1500m specialists. Beating two people once is not impressive. This was also 5 months ago. I don't care.

Jakob feels comfortable racing often and focuses on records. Josh has a system to peak for big championship races and he's clearly focused on medals. I think Jakob sees medals as a given as long as he's proving he's the fastest. Jakob is better for the fans but if Josh can keep winning when it most counts like this then it's his name we will keep seeing in the history books.

2k and 2mile WRs are not impressive because he'll never win medals in those distances. Every WR is paced btw.

Doesn't matter. If he gets gold in Paris he's still the boss, and you'll be crying for Jakob until the next WC.

He needs to stop being so arrogant then. One WC win is not evidence of a great "system" that focuses on winning when it counts. Part of being the "best 1500m runner in the world" is competing regularly and winning against your competition as well. He is neither as of now.

When did I mention those distances? Those performances are way better than his 8:00 2 miles and were given LESS pacing, but that is besides the point. Kerr has not shown that he can regularly win medals and is being overly arrogant for a guy who dodges all of his competition in the main season.

Where did I mention Jakob? Now I know you are a braindead Kerr glazer if you have to mention Jakob every time. I am arguing based on his claims of being "the best 1500m runner in the world" but he has no consistency in winning golds and dodges all of his competition in the main season.

Josh doesn't believe he benefits much from racing often, and he's probably right. Unless he's going for a WR, he has more to lose than to gain since clearly his training is working so well for him. He has such a solid head game and keeps his eye on the prize.

Jakob thrives on running fast often and gets so much confidence from it.

Different runners different head game.

Kerr holds the belt until it is taken from him at the next WC or Olympics. Last ai checked, best is measured by who wins the biggest races. DL meets and nationals don't matter.

Kerr is a world champion and has been really impressive in 2024, but his racing schedule is pathetic. Skipping Euros, Monaco, and London is egregious. The guy insists he wants to race against the best in the world but is nowhere to be found 90% of the time. Too busy posting pics of himself sitting in the dark I guess.

If everyone else raced as sparingly as Kerr does, we’d never have anything to watch. No fan of the sport should be defending him in on this.

Kerr? I highly doubt that...