Jakob Update Video

Shame he can't jump in the 10000, I know the HM didn't go well but I think he'd be fine in a championship 10. A casual 5/10 double gold wouldn't be a bad return given where's he been at the last few months.

Watch, it never goes away. It's what you think but what you think is never close to what really happens inside you. Your body just adapted to a different and less efficient form of running with both achilles injured and you forced yourself to accept that you are healthy again. It's psychological lying to yourself. You may very well have been in the vicinity of directed RF attacks for years without knowing it too. That's really how our health breaks down for the past few decades. It wasn't mcdonalds junk food, wasn't that sugary coca cola, our bodies can cleanse from these dirty junk food if not for directed RF attacks.

When are the Brojos going to permanently ban this directed energy weapon guy?

“A casual 5/10 double gold.”

It often stuns me how ignorant some of you are. There is no such thing as “a casual 5/10 double gold,” and if there is, it surely isn’t something Jakob is capable of at this point, coming off an injury.

“I think that’s going to lead up to a very exciting mid September where, worst case scenario, we have to change things up a little bit and maybe do something a little bit different. Don’t forget, I was a steeplechaser in 2017 in my first World Championship.”

Sounds like he’ll do the steeple in Tokyo as a last resort if he doesn’t feel prepared to take on the 15/5k. He acknowledges that it’s harder on the tendons than other events, so it’s pretty obvious the only reason he’d race it is because he believes it won’t require as much fitness to win as the 15 or 5k. The standard is 8:15.00 and the qualification window closes August 24, so we’ll know soon enough if he chooses to go that route.

Wrong in so many ways. It’s the first time in this Achilles and it’s the first time he’s missed the season.

You want him to take a year off in his prime????

Achilles do heal. His other one did.

No, it’s not wrong at all. Many injuries are reoccurring, especially ones like the achilles. The fact that it is in his other achilles is even worse. It shows that his previous injury has caused inefficiencies in his form and it is causing irritation in his whole other leg. That further drives home the point that he needs to take a year and develop plan moving forward for himself.

I don’t buy the notion that he won’t be just as fast in a few years time. How is it that brazier PBed years after his Doha win? These athletes are taken care of immensely and Jakob seems to have a great support group. It’s not like the old days, there are new cutting edge technologies for recovery that everyone’s using.

0% chance he runs the steeple in Tokyo.

achilles injuries are scary in their stubborness, but some people do completely move past them. Cole Hocker is 2.5 years removed from injuring BOTH achilles. One healed, and basically the moment he came back, the other went bad.

He won the Olympics 1500 1.5 years later.

Cool video, thanks Jakob for the update.

My takeaways:
- He is progressing his training again, however, due to a small "irritiation" setback and caution, the risk outweighs the reward returning to upcoming Diamond League races, with the World Championships still being the goal he won't compromise on.
- Due to this setback, finding the correct balance between volume and speed has been challenging.
- While frustrated, he also seems quietly excited by the prospect of being the guy who turns up at the World Championships with zero races under his belt and a bullet in the barrel. Jakob is a thrill seeker and doesn't shy away from the impossible. The heat is on to make the start line fit and firing and to see what he's got. That's exciting.

Where do you weirdos spawn from? Or is it all the same guy

Probably the same guy

I think you are taking what he said about 2017 too literally. Honestly, I'm not sure what he meant about that, it sounded like a way of him saying he might drop the 1500, without actually saying that explicitly. But I don't think he meant it as going for the steeple. And with an Achilles injury that also sounds like a really bad idea.

Yes agreed. I think he was alluding to the fact he has raced other events that aren't the 1500m before, and therefore can do it again.

Add it to the list!!

I agree (too tough on the achilles). Nrk expert Rodal (OG gold 1996) thinks a 10000m entry is more likely, but running a qualifier in spikes before August 24 th may be very risky, IMO…