Championship rounds are different than tapered Diamond League time trialing.
Full stop.
100%. That's called Championship racing. Completely different, and requires experience.
I see a lot of posts about how Laros "didn't peak correctly", yes that is true, and timing a peak for the middle of September is not easy. He's young and will be fun to watch in the coming years.
I don't think he watched the championship 1500m races from the past 4 years. The person who leads early doesn't win the race anymore. No one is significantly better than anyone, you've got to relax and draft, the last one to move up to the front wins.
He did, but it really does demonstrate how important experience is.
Kerr being injured completely derailed his strategy. He was hoping to go through 400 in the 50 somethings (lowish), and win the race in and around 3.30, kicking off Kerr.
But that race never materialised. It was an 800 runners dream and he should have put the pedal down far sooner.
You *have* to react to the first lap.
Yeah, Laros choked. Nader proved EPO is a helluva drug. Kerr was not going to win this anyway. He didn’t look top form in the earlier rounds.
So basically, any time one's fav doesn't win, or anytime a "minority" or "outsider" person wins, there are tons of PED accusations. ... Have you ever self-reflected upon your bigotry?
He did, but it really does demonstrate how important experience is.
Kerr being injured completely derailed his strategy. He was hoping to go through 400 in the 50 somethings (lowish), and win the race in and around 3.30, kicking off Kerr.
But that race never materialised. It was an 800 runners dream and he should have put the pedal down far sooner.
You *have* to react to the first lap.
If he'd tried that he would have had to lead from gun to tape. He let Tim have a go at leading, but Tim didn't do enough.
He looked nervous as hell at the start, taking deep breaths. How many favorites have won 1500m global championships since El G, and he choked twice in the Olympics and had to have teammates as pacemakers to win his WC golds.
Would have been epic to have Wightman win, but sadly another doped up Moroccan has taken away a golden moment from the sport.
One can always count on you to be a bitter, sore loser when your fellow white hypes get obliterated. It's always a joy reading your copium comments, but don't worry as there'll be plenty of opportunity for you throw more tantrums when laros loses more races in the future.
No, your next great mid-distance blond hope did not choke he simply wasn't good enough to even get on the podium at the big stage despite how badly he was hyped to be the next great thing in the 1500, even got beat by Tim 'the potato farmer' Cheryuoit who was unfortunate to miss out on a medal on what's probably his final major event.
Nader is a fantastic winner to this strange season. Laros didn't have it on the day, that's it
This is really it. He kept his nerve and ran 12.28 for the last 100 with his last 20 his best. Cheruiyot a little off his best kick gets bronze, Tim close to his best but some stumbles/wasted energy early a good 4th, everything went perfect for Wightman a la 2022 but Nader is slightly better at this stage even giving a gap. Laros had a B-effort which brought him back to the field despite a tactically strong race. Reminded me of Yared in Budapest.
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No he peaked slightly too early and at 20 maybe just didn't have the background to carry on
I picked Jake for the win before hoping he could beat Laros
Kerr has been decked a few times in the sprint in the last month. Jake always had slightly better speed but he was nearly finished by injury. He looked great in the semi so I tipped him
Nader is a fantastic winner to this strange season. Laros didn't have it on the day, that's it
This is really it. He kept his nerve and ran 12.28 for the last 100 with his last 20 his best. Cheruiyot a little off his best kick gets bronze, Tim close to his best but some stumbles/wasted energy early a good 4th, everything went perfect for Wightman a la 2022 but Nader is slightly better at this stage even giving a gap. Laros had a B-effort which brought him back to the field despite a tactically strong race. Reminded me of Yared in Budapest.
Nader did not keep his nerve he didn't plan on winning like that he was dropped by the initial kick. If Laros had run to form or Jake gone slightly later he would not have won
This is really it. He kept his nerve and ran 12.28 for the last 100 with his last 20 his best. Cheruiyot a little off his best kick gets bronze, Tim close to his best but some stumbles/wasted energy early a good 4th, everything went perfect for Wightman a la 2022 but Nader is slightly better at this stage even giving a gap. Laros had a B-effort which brought him back to the field despite a tactically strong race. Reminded me of Yared in Budapest.
Nader did not keep his nerve he didn't plan on winning like that he was dropped by the initial kick. If Laros had run to form or Jake gone slightly later he would not have won
Nah going too hard to early is how you lose, because you go lactic. The later you can leave your kick, the less you will then die. Wightman went early, banked on being able to hold on, but the one who didn't chase him initially decelerated the least, and therefore won.
You goobers hyped Laros up too much this year. He's exactly where a 20 year old should be; he looks dangerous but not quite ready, and he's overraced this year. Looks a lot like Hocker in 2021. A 5th place is a fantastic result for him, and he'll be medaling very soon.
Hocker was the one who was most prepared to win this championship but made the mistake of letting his semi get outside his control. After that I knew the winner would be someone random, not Laros.
Nah going too hard to early is how you lose, because you go lactic. The later you can leave your kick, the less you will then die. Wightman went early, banked on being able to hold on, but the one who didn't chase him initially decelerated the least, and therefore won.
Wightman went too early and his last 100 was not that great - slower than Nader, Reynold, and even Farken. He also was watching the screen too much. Reynold finally got his tactics right in the semis and final, but didn’t have his best kick. Tim and Niels ended up behind those two and weren’t able to get much of a kick going after trying to match Wightman’s first move. Nader was totally boxed around the curve with Reynold and Adrian Ben on his outside, but Ben started going backwards while Reynold took off and that opened the perfect window for Nader to kick once and hard and 12.3 got him home. In the Portuguese interview he alluded to being criticized in the past for looking around too much in the last 100, but today he ran hard to the line.
I thought it was funny Wightman in his interview said he wouldn’t have expected Nader to win - but Nader was the guy who outkicked Jake by a tiny margin in London for 3rd behind Koech and Kerr after the Mills fall took out the rest of the field. And Nader was other than Jake the only 3:29/1:43 guy in the field. So maybe Nader should have figured more in his thinking.
I think it would have been more of a choke if he would have done stupid moves tactically. In this case he just didn't have the best condition on the day. Peaking is hard
peaking is not hard, i think people need to go back to lydiard, not to follow precisely, but the way volume is reduced, speed increased and the timing.
and you don't want to be peaking several times per year,
the us trials you have to peak, and take off the boil and repeat the peak
which is sub optimal
viren the dog got it right exactly
as did the kiwis like dixon quax walker , ha beamish, halberg, etc.
you want to restudy peaking coaches, in light of so many rediculous failures