duh.com wrote:
he said the fastest lap in a race 800m and up...
this should obviously be the first lap of elite 800s..
the front-runners go out in the 48-49 range often..
Duh yourself. Check the thread title. If you are still confused, re-read the first post.
wow did you forget how to read??
First, he said fastest LAST lap.
Second, I was correcting bile1987 on the time he listed for the WC's. Though maybe he meant World Cup. Well there is an error either way you cut it.
Explainer of the obvious wrote:
mandingo wrote:I have heard many times that Miruts Yifter won the African 10,000 champs
Log on to Dyestat many times?
Not once, ever. I would be impressed if those high school kids knew who Yifter was though. I've heard from various runners like a legend passed down. Yifter used to coach guys here in Toronto. I wish I would have asked him if it was true.
grubinski wrote:
Didn't Bekele run the last lap of the 10K at the last Olympics in something insane like 52.x?
He ran about 53-flat, unpushed, but what's nuts is he started his kick from 500!
IMHO he blew his 5000 gold right there.
El G, Bekele, and Kipchoge all closed in 53.X in the 2003 Paris WC 5k.
Some recent discussions on this from the other (older guy) forum:
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=20577
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=1993
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=14432
I was reading those threads and I noticed something very odd; there are no swears or juvenile comments! How does that happen? Are they all edited out?
Not the fastest last lap for 800 or over, but MJ's last 400m of his WR was under 43, since his reaction time was about the same as the excess over 43. In the relays, the fastest 400 is in the upper 42s.
I was thinkin 53 something, but yes. The 10k closed faster than the 1500 at the last olympics.
mandingo wrote:
I was reading those threads and I noticed something very odd; there are no swears or juvenile comments! How does that happen? Are they all edited out?
Also they generally know their facts, rather than pulling sh!t out of their a$$ and acting like its true, as a few of the previous posters did.
tetreault and dave martin, this is just one big orgy of obsessive letsrun.com reading goodness. I think that Sandrock's last 400m at the indoor Heps '97 5000m had to be 49 high.
Steve Ovett, 50.5 Olympic final 1980