One thing in common in both race videos. He gets out FAST in both. This way he runs the shortest distance possible (doubly critical indoors on those extra tight and extra number of turns), and he avoids the wrestling matches that were going on behind him in both races. There was some serious jostling in those races. Smart dude, and fast.
3rd fastest of all time behind Kip and Borza
J.Lin wrote:
3rd fastest of all time behind Kip and Borza
http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=i/age=n/season=0/sex=M/all=y/legal=A/disc=800/detail.html
Those top two marks are just STUNNING. Especially since the WR is over a full second faster than his #2, and especially considering they were run two days apart.
That's impossible - it didn't happen. Ventolin said previously that glycogen stores wouldn't get fully restored enough and muscle fibers wouldn't fully heal enough for WKip to get that WR. http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4182653&page=0
The Stache wrote:
Those top two marks are just STUNNING. Especially since the WR is over a full second faster than his #2, and especially considering they were run two days apart.