German Fernandez in 3k @ Reiti, Italy. PREDICTION

He was leading the chase pack trying to catch the leaders and I think that's what did him in. He faded.

It shows he's not yet in condition to compete at the world level in the longer distances. He needs to get back to his training.

Great run by Collis beating all the Kenyans. he is the Buster!!! Longoshiva is certainly off something that he was

on earlier.

ventolin^3 wrote:

yyy wrote:new AR 7:27. the track is short according to Ovett (after his 3:30.77 clocking in '83)

german shoud be disappointed if he doesn't get 7'32

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Nice prediction Ventard

This is his longest track race in a year. On the bright side, had he kept on going he still would have beaten his high school 2 mile record :)

Knew it all along wrote:

Can we get away from this ridiculous delusion that German's best event isn't the 1500/Mile. It is clearly his best event.

If he gets in any worse condition his best event will be the 100 yard dash.

Well, one good race and one bad race to end the season. If he can just stay healthy for a year we'll get a much better sense of what he can accomplish.

Best of luck to GF.

J.R. wrote:

Knew it all along wrote:

Can we get away from this ridiculous delusion that German's best event isn't the 1500/Mile. It is clearly his best event.

If he gets in any worse condition his best event will be the 100 yard dash.

Are you a dog, or a person with severe memory problems? German JUST RAN 3:34!

These results are bizarre. Longosiwa, a sub 12:50 guy running 7:49 and losing by 12 seconds to Birmingham? The latter winning by 5 seconds? Curtis taking second ahead of three Kenyans, including Longosiwa and Kemboi?? What happened with the pacers?

german shoud be disappointed if he doesn't get 7'32

What a nitwit.

The results are Bizarre!!! Doesn't make any sense! He should have been able to at least run in the low 7:40's at his current level of fitness. He might of just ate something bad or was tired, who knows? Sometimes he's either on fire or just hang'in on! Get'em next time!!!!!!

Trialswatcher wrote:

Ventolin as usal your insanity escapes no one, there is never a guy yet who you do not have running faster than they can or DID

7:32 would be absurd for a guy who has run under 3:37 once and never under 13:25 and who has not run a real fast track longer effort in years or in distance since XC

What this guy said is spot-on and what Ventolin said is lunacy, even for him. In order for him to not call me MORON and IDIOT, I will send Ventolin $10 if Fernandez runs 7:32.99 or faster. I guarantee it.

Trialswatcher wrote:Ventolin as usal your insanity escapes no one, there is never a guy yet who you do not have running faster than they can or DID

moron

that's what a "perfect" race means

7:32 would be absurd for a guy who has run under 3:37 once and never under 13:25 and who has not run a real fast track longer effort in years or in distance since XC

idiot

the under-3'37 was 3'34 you moron

if you have that much speed & reckon 5k is your best distance, then looking towards 7'30 is your expectation

YOu have become a laughing stock on here making every prediction off an optimum day situation, based off WHAT would German run 7:32 a time run by how many Americans? When he has run distance race of this length at this pace ?

It was a ludicrcus prediction under any formula, he ran 3:34.x ONE time, way off the back single file, closing down nicely.

How does that translate to 7:32? It doesn;t

You do not go from 7:47 and step thru to 7:32 very often if at all.

Still using his 7:47 four years ago as his baseline against his 3:39 1500? 3:55 mile?

Until he runs 7:47 again, I would have been very surprised if he ran 7:40 flat

You are the moron, I called you no names that is all you got? Come on now novice number cruncher.

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I would say a couple of good races and not just one. Before Berlin he won a 1500 race and then ran the 3:34. He's not in top form by far and the results of that are usually inconsistency. He'll be back as long as he stays healthy.

moron

optimum day is asked

moron

nothing to do with americans

mo

has 3'33.9pb

ferno went 3'34.7

moron

he said he was a 5k guy

you run 3'34 off 5k training, you'd expect 7'30

learn moron

moron

bernie ran 3'26.3 off same

idiot

any 5k guy who runs 3'34 shoud look to sub-7'35

try this

moron

komen was 7'38 prior to 7'20 season

idiot

no

moron

this was terrible rieti

longosiwa with 7'30/12'49 barely broke 7'50

this was dead-beat meet

idiot

delusion will help you nowhere

any guy with 3'34 speed off 5k training coud aim for

7'32

ventolin^3 wrote:

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Ventolin,

Who are you? Would you be kind enough to give us your real name and credentials?

he hadn't been training for 3k/5k until late June or July; it had all been 1500m w/OK St, so it was not clear that he was optimally trained yet for higher distances. Having run 7:47i when he was quite sick four years ago, and with injury problems, and then frontrunning 3:39 that year (and 13:25 trailing), you might reasonably predict him to drop ten seconds or more in the 3k, and then add the Euro pacing to get him to 7:35. 7:32 was very optimistic. He's never run close to that pace for 3k. But I would bank on him running close to that next year, and low 13, with a full year of Schumacher training in the bank, assuming health.