Centrowitz just jogged a 3:54

I watched it live on YouTube. OMG, what a smooth race. Centro never looked stressed. Like a walk in the park. Never seen anything like it in the US. Ever. In 35 years of watching track.

This kid is going to break AW's American Record. Just a matter of time. And Centro knows how to RACE. Something Webb has never learned.

Webb will never beat Centro. Sad but true.

gonchar wrote:

I watched it live on YouTube. OMG, what a smooth race. Centro never looked stressed. Like a walk in the park. Never seen anything like it in the US. Ever. In 35 years of watching track.

This kid is going to break AW's American Record. Just a matter of time. And Centro knows how to RACE. Something Webb has never learned.

Webb will never beat Centro. Sad but true.

I've been watching track for longer than that. I still think Ryun's 3:51 in Bakersfield looked a lot more relaxed. ; ) For indoor only performances, Filbert Bayi looked absolutely non-pressed in a race in which I watched him knock off a field loaded with the world's best. Centro is fantastic but has a ways to go.

Thanks. Gun @ 6:22:00

dudetube wrote:

NailinThatThing wrote:

Video available?

I came across this. Probably not the best possible way, but click around the 6:20:00 mark on this video (armorytrack youtube page)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYsxl3bOiHY

MoreTimeForTheKid wrote:

I've been watching track for longer than that. I still think Ryun's 3:51 in Bakersfield looked a lot more relaxed. ; ) For indoor only performances, Filbert Bayi looked absolutely non-pressed in a race in which I watched him knock off a field loaded with the world's best. Centro is fantastic but has a ways to go.

Good for you Old Timer. You're older than me. I'm of the Kevin Byrne era, andI saw Filbert Bayi at Millrose in 1977 as well. Exciting stuff. But Filbert wasn't an American, which was my entire POINT. Webb's HS mile record was more exciting, but Webb really didn't know how to race, nor does he now. Centro seems born with that instinct.

Sick race from Centro, looked outrageously smooth.

Dude is going sub 3:46 at some point in his career and there ain't no doubt about it.

Seriously Talk wrote:

Dude is going sub 3:46 at some point in his career and there ain't no doubt about it.

Huh? That is really out there.

No reason he can't run 3:31/3:48 this year if he stays healthy. He's young and still improving fast, so 3:46 is not all that out there.

Listen guys, 3:47 is no joke, let a lone 3:46 and Centro is more than 6 seconds off of Webb's mark. That and you guys throw around the number 3:46 like it's no big deal. Alan Webb didn't even run a 3:46 he ran 3:46.9 after running Centro's time at 18 years old.

Listen guys, 3:47 is no joke, let a lone 3:46 and Centro is more than 6 seconds off of Webb's mark. That and you guys throw around the number 3:46 like it's no big deal. Alan Webb didn't even run a 3:46 he ran 3:46.9 after running Centro's time at 18 years old.

the race went out in 1:58+ Yes. I would expect Centro to be comfortable and look good in that kind of a race. I can't help but feel like he needs that sort of slow opening to be able to run with the world's best.

When Hall ran 3:43 in college, you guys said he jogged it. How dumb was that? If any miler goes all-out from the gun, but eases by 1 sec in the last 200m, then the whole race looks easy. Think people.

Not that impressed wrote:

the race went out in 1:58+ Yes. I would expect Centro to be comfortable and look good in that kind of a race. I can't help but feel like he needs that sort of slow opening to be able to run with the world's best.

True, it went out slowly. However,

- Centro didn't just look good & comfortable, he looked absolutely effortless. One has to figure the he could do a great deal more, even from a significantly faster opening pace.

- Most of the situations where he'll be competing with the world's best will be championship meets, where a slow opening half is the norm.

I think that at 3:46.xx, as some posters above have mentioned, would not be out of the question in a couple of years. I'm certain we have yet to see the best he can do in terms of time.

Why cant centro get the collegiate record when he is still in college? pro or not pro, whats the reason?

h8 2 say it bros but you kinda had 2 be there

So, he applied, by your sense of things, NO effort. Just jogged along, did he?

I should think that on the day, with effort, he could have run 10 seconds faster - if we are to think the words you are using make any sense. "He looked absolutely effortless."

Let's all figure 3:40-42.

Just to be clear, he hit the half in 1:57, not 1:58+.

Remember the the half mile split is 4.6m back from the finish line.

The announcers seemed to be looking at the 809m split.

Still a negative split race and very smooth and in control.

Curious to see how fast he can go with more experience and confidence.

I just rewatched and have to agree he looked very very smooth and relaxed throughout.

Too early to be calling him a gold medalist, but kid is looking very good.

He completely owned that field, but dont think he would have owned Silas Kiplagat, Asbel Kiprop, Lagat, etc.

Steve Scott says wrote: Alan Webb didn't even run a 3:46 he ran 3:46.9 after running Centro's time at 18 years old.

Steve Scott really says that Centrowitz has achieved more as an amateur than Alan Webb did in his whole career. Not because of how he looked yesterday, which was spectacular, but because of how he ran against sub 3:30 guys last year.