Nuanced stat, but interesting, other than Burgin who ran within .23 of his PB, Kessler was next closest to his at .33, so, I think a solid effort. That's 3 times under 1:44.00 when his previous PR coming into this year was above 1:45.00. Probably holding on by a thread fitness wise..LOL
Kessler ran quite well. If you look at that race, most of the guys coming back besides Arop were quite obviously fatigued. Arop I think is both in supreme form and had such a bizarre go at it in Lausanne that he left a little more for this race than the other guys including Wanyonyi, Tual, Hoppel, Kessler.
I think, that even as close as they got..the WR is safe for another year, I mean Arop had a really nice race and was still .66 off his seasonal best, with a pretty nicely paced set up today. I was dead wrong on Jakob, so could be again, but I don't think we will see anymore sub 1:41.5 performances. A lot of guys have emptied the tank, I think and been traveling and away from home for quite a while now.
Marco has showed he can run 1:41 in a variety of ways. A 49.7 split does not phase the guy. If he runs like he did today, but gets someone to chase him in the last 100m, the WR will go down.
Marco has showed he can run 1:41 in a variety of ways. A 49.7 split does not phase the guy. If he runs like he did today, but gets someone to chase him in the last 100m, the WR will go down.
