This race proves the point - Jakob just need to just be there with 400m and he can break everyone and run a 53 or 52. Ya he doesn't have the best 100m kick of the field but that doesn't really matter if it is still a honest 3:30 race which Yared or a Kenyan would keep the pace at.
This should further feed Jakob's delusions that he is a 1500/5k guy when he is actually a 5k/10k guy... so a huge setback for him.
Jacob is a 1500/3000/5k/10k/HM/M guy, his time in the limelight is still in early days, this mf is an endurance beast unlike anything we have seen. We are lucky to be following the sport at this time.
This race proves the point - Jakob just need to just be there with 400m and he can break everyone and run a 53 or 52. Ya he doesn't have the best 100m kick of the field but that doesn't really matter if it is still a honest 3:30 race which Yared or a Kenyan would keep the pace at.
This race proved NOTHING. People always want to react to one race. Just like the Olympics. These races prove NOTHING. There is a reason we watch the races. We don’t know exactly what to expect.
This should further feed Jakob's delusions that he is a 1500/5k guy when he is actually a 5k/10k guy... so a huge setback for him.
The man is 23 years old, and has the 4th fastest time in the history of the event. He is closer to the world record (needs .74 seconds) than any of his current competition's best time is to him (Hocker needs .93 seconds).
This race proves the point - Jakob just need to just be there with 400m and he can break everyone and run a 53 or 52. Ya he doesn't have the best 100m kick of the field but that doesn't really matter if it is still a honest 3:30 race which Yared or a Kenyan would keep the pace at.
Not sure he can break everyone. As all the medalists in Paris all kicked in 53 and that's a 3:27 race. In a 3:30, they presumably could've kicked in 52. Actually Hocker did that in the trial. So, yeah, the only thing that's proven is that Jakob can hold onto his peak for longer out of the big four. But his performance in championship races going forward without wavelight remains to be seen.
This should further feed Jakob's delusions that he is a 1500/5k guy when he is actually a 5k/10k guy... so a huge setback for him.
Jacob is a 1500/3000/5k/10k/HM/M guy, his time in the limelight is still in early days, this mf is an endurance beast unlike anything we have seen. We are lucky to be following the sport at this time.
He hasnt ever proved he's a brilliant long distance guy at all,and i dont believe he ever will. He's an upper middle distance guy.Brilliant at 1500's/1 miles/3k and good enough to win an olympic 5000 final,in a "slow" race. Thats about it.
I totally agree with all of this and I never thought the WR was even remotely in play here.
The surprising thing to me was actually the wavelight targets because he could’ve set up the drafting a little more. He’ll go hard in Silesia and one of Zurich and the DL final. I think we are more likely to see a time there.
So I don't know if you saw/noticed this or if I'm off the mark here, but I don't think I've ever seen Jakob so far away from the front of the green light band here as early in the race as he was tonight. In Monaco he was right at the top of the bubble from the start - the first thing I thought watching it live today was "he's afraid to get out too hard in the first lap after Paris".
I do think it's a thing for him. I think he acutely aware he was out too fast in Paris and that running much faster than the high 55's, low 56's just isn't going to go well for him. Tonight he was 56.1 and clearly wanted no part of Rudolphs pacing which wasn't bad at 55.3 by any means.
It is this simple - if he wants to go at 3.26.00 he needs to be 55.3 and not just the pacer. Its too much ground to make up from 4-1200 to be 55.8/56.0 and get to 1200 in 2.45.5 (that's a sub 1.50 next 800m). I am on record on many threads with the same narrative - I don't know where this time comes from for him, right now I can't see it. And I would be more than happy to be wrong and have to eat these words but tonight gave me nothing that would dramatically change my mind on this.
The man is 23 years old, and has the 4th fastest time in the history of the event. He is closer to the world record (needs .74 seconds) than any of his current competition's best time is to him (Hocker needs .93 seconds).
So, whatever, man.
I'm pretty certain that in the event Jakob is clean (which I believe he is), he is the fastest clean man in the history of the event already...
Jacob is a 1500/3000/5k/10k/HM/M guy, his time in the limelight is still in early days, this mf is an endurance beast unlike anything we have seen. We are lucky to be following the sport at this time.
He hasnt ever proved he's a brilliant long distance guy at all,and i dont believe he ever will. He's an upper middle distance guy.Brilliant at 1500's/1 miles/3k and good enough to win an olympic 5000 final,in a "slow" race. Thats about it.
Why would he not attempt long distance when he himself says he's the best at long distance? The only 10k he's ran was on a hilly course in piss poor weather 5 years ago and it's still the European U20 record.
Obviously Lausanne isn’t “altitude” in the traditional sense, but it’s at 1700 feet. Tinman’s calculator says that’s worth 1.7s on a 3:27 1500m, which would put Jakob right around the world record at sea level. Even if it’s half that, the WR was never going to happen in Lausanne, but Jakob could still get it in a few weeks.
This race proves the point - Jakob just need to just be there with 400m and he can break everyone and run a 53 or 52. Ya he doesn't have the best 100m kick of the field but that doesn't really matter if it is still a honest 3:30 race which Yared or a Kenyan would keep the pace at.
jakob very well may have won the olympics if he'd kept it chill in the first half and then hammered the final 700. dude is unstoppable when he DOESNT LEAD the first half lmao
Jakob is 0-2 in the last two WCs where he didn’t lead the first lap. Thats very stoppable.
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