That's kind of come from nowhere. He's been solid for a long time, and I understand his medical training has probably compromised his running, but to drop from 27:20 to 26.43 in one go is quite extraordinary
For context : that 27:20 in December was a legit solo run from gun to tape (completely alone, no exaggeration) in the rain.
That's kind of come from nowhere. He's been solid for a long time, and I understand his medical training has probably compromised his running, but to drop from 27:20 to 26.43 in one go is quite extraordinary
He wasn't focusing on 10,000. The last couple of years, 2024/2025, he's focused on speed, bringing his 1500/5000 to 3:31/12:56, so it's in line with sub 27:00.
After his 7:29/3000 indoors two weeks ago, I thought he'd run around 26:50-26:55. 26:43 was extra special.
I'm 99.9% certain Dr Schrub is clean. Btw, have you heard of the "Hippocratic Oath" which all self respecting doctors abide by?
You bringing him up is a red flag. You only bring up probable dopers. But the 29 year old Dr. Yann Schrub, turning 30 next month, has been knocking down times bit by bit on the track and now he's got the impressive range of 7:29/26:43. At age 17, he was just a 1:57 800m guy. He was 25 before he knocked that down at all, to 1:51 in 2021. At 18, he knocked his 1500m best down to 3:52. So, at this point, ready to go to college if he were an American, he would have been nowhere close to the top high school runners, 18 seconds off the current American hs record at 1500. At age 26 in 2022, he still had just a 3:45 1500m pr! The following year he knocked that down to 3:41.59. Finally, at age 27, he would have been a top five American hs prospect, nine years older. Then at age 28, he drops his 1500 pr another 6 seconds to 3:35. Then he finally had the speed to compete for a spot in world finals at 5000m. Then in 2025, he knocks off another 4 seconds, and at the French champs, no less, not a time trial race, to run 3:31, which is faster than Geb or Bekele ever had, plenty of speed to be competitive at World 5000 and certainly 10000m. That he was 28 at that point and had dropped 14 seconds at 1500m in the latter portion of his 20s made this unlikely to say the least. I want to believe that this is real, despite significant French doping history, so I'm going through other events to see the potential there before the last three years of absolutely extraordinary drops. In 2019, at 23, his 3k, which he ran every year, was still only at 8:07. He then drops 11 seconds to 2020 with 7:56 at age 24. He then took off another 7 seconds in a year, then 1 second. In one year, he dropped 34s in the 5000. His 10k road just dropped a minute in 2 years. So, it is all unlikely.
He wasn't focusing on 10,000. The last couple of years, 2024/2025, he's focused on speed, bringing his 1500/5000 to 3:31/12:56, so it's in line with sub 27:00.
After his 7:29/3000 indoors two weeks ago, I thought he'd run around 26:50-26:55. 26:43 was extra special.
I'm 99.9% certain Dr Schrub is clean. Btw, have you heard of the "Hippocratic Oath" which all self respecting doctors abide by?
You bringing him up is a red flag. You only bring up probable dopers. But the 29 year old Dr. Yann Schrub, turning 30 next month, has been knocking down times bit by bit on the track and now he's got the impressive range of 7:29/26:43. At age 17, he was just a 1:57 800m guy. He was 25 before he knocked that down at all, to 1:51 in 2021. At 18, he knocked his 1500m best down to 3:52. So, at this point, ready to go to college if he were an American, he would have been nowhere close to the top high school runners, 18 seconds off the current American hs record at 1500. At age 26 in 2022, he still had just a 3:45 1500m pr! The following year he knocked that down to 3:41.59. Finally, at age 27, he would have been a top five American hs prospect, nine years older. Then at age 28, he drops his 1500 pr another 6 seconds to 3:35. Then he finally had the speed to compete for a spot in world finals at 5000m. Then in 2025, he knocks off another 4 seconds, and at the French champs, no less, not a time trial race, to run 3:31, which is faster than Geb or Bekele ever had, plenty of speed to be competitive at World 5000 and certainly 10000m. That he was 28 at that point and had dropped 14 seconds at 1500m in the latter portion of his 20s made this unlikely to say the least. I want to believe that this is real, despite significant French doping history, so I'm going through other events to see the potential there before the last three years of absolutely extraordinary drops. In 2019, at 23, his 3k, which he ran every year, was still only at 8:07. He then drops 11 seconds to 2020 with 7:56 at age 24. He then took off another 7 seconds in a year, then 1 second. In one year, he dropped 34s in the 5000. His 10k road just dropped a minute in 2 years. So, it is all unlikely.
You conveniently forget to acknowledge that present day Dr Schrub was a medical student and only training 4-5 days a week until around 2022 - 2023 and he's only been on more regular training not even full-time training since around 2023 or 2024. So basically he was training like an amateur until recently and only in the last couple of years has he been training approaching elite level and even then it's much lighter than most people and he usually only runs six days a week and usually once a day - it is rare that he doubles except in training camps.
You also should keep in mind that he's a medical doctor with very extensive knowledge of physiological systems which is a big advantage not only in his research but also in the way he applies his research and knowledge to his own body to optimize his performance.
You bringing him up is a red flag. You only bring up probable dopers. But the 29 year old Dr. Yann Schrub, turning 30 next month, has been knocking down times bit by bit on the track and now he's got the impressive range of 7:29/26:43. At age 17, he was just a 1:57 800m guy. He was 25 before he knocked that down at all, to 1:51 in 2021. At 18, he knocked his 1500m best down to 3:52. So, at this point, ready to go to college if he were an American, he would have been nowhere close to the top high school runners, 18 seconds off the current American hs record at 1500. At age 26 in 2022, he still had just a 3:45 1500m pr! The following year he knocked that down to 3:41.59. Finally, at age 27, he would have been a top five American hs prospect, nine years older. Then at age 28, he drops his 1500 pr another 6 seconds to 3:35. Then he finally had the speed to compete for a spot in world finals at 5000m. Then in 2025, he knocks off another 4 seconds, and at the French champs, no less, not a time trial race, to run 3:31, which is faster than Geb or Bekele ever had, plenty of speed to be competitive at World 5000 and certainly 10000m. That he was 28 at that point and had dropped 14 seconds at 1500m in the latter portion of his 20s made this unlikely to say the least. I want to believe that this is real, despite significant French doping history, so I'm going through other events to see the potential there before the last three years of absolutely extraordinary drops. In 2019, at 23, his 3k, which he ran every year, was still only at 8:07. He then drops 11 seconds to 2020 with 7:56 at age 24. He then took off another 7 seconds in a year, then 1 second. In one year, he dropped 34s in the 5000. His 10k road just dropped a minute in 2 years. So, it is all unlikely.
You conveniently forget to acknowledge that present day Dr Schrub was a medical student and only training 4-5 days a week until around 2022 - 2023 and he's only been on more regular training not even full-time training since around 2023 or 2024. So basically he was training like an amateur until recently and only in the last couple of years has he been training approaching elite level and even then it's much lighter than most people and he usually only runs six days a week and usually once a day - it is rare that he doubles except in training camps.
You also should keep in mind that he's a medical doctor with very extensive knowledge of physiological systems which is a big advantage not only in his research but also in the way he applies his research and knowledge to his own body to optimize his performance.
The fact that Dr Schrub is approaching his best at close to age 30 is only a reflection that in his early twenties he was focusing on his medical studies and so his longevity will be lengthened considerably compared to people doing high mileage and intensity in their early 20's and it's probably safe to predict that his (Schrub ) longevity might be more lengthy compared to someone like Jimmy Gressier who really pushes the envelope almost 12 months a year but that's not taking anything away from the former footballer (soccer player) Jimmy G. who is a fantastic runner in his own right, but it's ironic to see that the good doctor (Schrub) now has a faster 1500/3000 meter time compared with Jimmy.
No one is talking about 4th Silas Senchura (Kenya) 26:58, and 1500 runner Tim Verbaandert (3:32.60) who ran 27:39 today in Castellon.
Senchura still 20, turns 21 July 17, has altitude bests of 13:44.95/28:18.46. He ran 13:36 for 5km in Al Khobar, Saudi in December.
Verbaandert (25) (Netherlands ), is turning into a super monster. Ran 3:32.60 in September 2025, Trier, Germany. Previous best was 3:38.20 from 2023. Also has a 13:06.14 from chrono mecca, Oordegem, Belgium, August 2025. At 18 he was a 3:50.84 for 1500. Europe focus on longevity not quick star chasing.
No one is talking about 4th Silas Senchura (Kenya) 26:58, and 1500 runner Tim Verbaandert (3:32.60) who ran 27:39 today in Castellon.
Senchura still 20, turns 21 July 17, has altitude bests of 13:44.95/28:18.46. He ran 13:36 for 5km in Al Khobar, Saudi in December.
Verbaandert (25) (Netherlands ), is turning into a super monster. Ran 3:32.60 in September 2025, Trier, Germany. Previous best was 3:38.20 from 2023. Also has a 13:06.14 from chrono mecca, Oordegem, Belgium, August 2025. At 18 he was a 3:50.84 for 1500. Europe focus on longevity not quick star chasing.
Well on Senchura, we’ll see if he’s a guy on the roads or will aim for the Comm Games 10,000 perhaps. There’s a large group of Kenyans in the sub-27 range who end up becoming sub-59 half marathoners, and some great marathoners. So it’ll be interesting to see where he goes as he is improving quickly. He apparently led much of Kenyan XC Trials before falling back, so he is fearless. I’d like him to give the track a chance as most Kenyans of his profile fade into some obscurity on the roads unless they really become marathon world-beaters.
And a new European record for the women in the same race too - Scotland's Megan Keith runs 30.07 to take a second off Scotland's Eilish McColgan's record. McColgan finished sixth today in 30.35, possibly not having recovered from running a fast half marathon in Japan since Germany last record in Valencia.
Was Eilish was quicker by chip time but she didn’t start at the front?
A country of just 10 million people Sweden really punch above their weight in a number of sports and our own coach JS symbolizes and epitomizes the passion for sport in Sweden.
Is there a correlation between introversion and high level in distance running because in that case there might be a link with Swedish performance in that respect because once suspects that a high number or the majority of Swedish distance runners would belong on the (predominantly ) introversion scale?
For example, an athlete like Andreas Almgren paradoxically does the vast majority of his training on his own and seems to thrive on that. Almgren's body language after races, even when he runs a monster performance, appears to be very self-controlled and subdued.
Almost all the best Kenyan, Ethiopian, Japanese, and Moroccan runners thrive because of the group system and do the vast majority of their running in groups (mostly) - very different from self-sufficient and individualistic European runners. Group running can confer tremendous advantages overall over individual training aside from rare cases. In sports like elite swimming everything is done in groups and rarely individualistically.
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