Explain what Centro's 2:49.47 split means

1:50

2:55

4:00

All pretty much equal at the college / pro level

LOL

1200man wrote:

Plus he was carrying a baton.

why has nobody brought up one of the most important aspects of the performance: how RELAXED did Centro look? did it look like he was JOGGING a 2:49?

Not for nothing, but I remember watching ELG run thru 1200 in 2:46/2:47 range on some of this monster 1500's back in the day. I'd say Centro solo 2:49 is worth better than a 3:38/3:55...56. shape wise. More like a 3:52/53 mile

Kiprop split 2:47 on his way to the 3:27 he ran last year in Monaco. Farrah was right around 3:49.

WR DMR wrote:How fast is this? Put it in perspective!

from some tables + extrapolation

2'48.00 = 1'46.2 , 2'16.7 , 3'36.0 , 3'53.8

2'49.47 = 1'47.1 , 2'17.9 , 3'37.8 , 3'55.7

( all assumed outdoors & no flying start )

The purdy, Cameron and vo2max conversions are reasonable for distances above 800m. However vo2max is more inaccurate and should refer to mid distance tables in jack Daniels. The calculator has it coming in between 3:53 to 3:56 for a mile

WI wrote:What I'd like to know is what Webb could have ran 1000/1200m in 2007 in peak form. Ventolin, care to compute this?

he was in awesome shape

his 1'43.8 went out far too quick for him at 49.9 for him at bell

off 50-mid/high, i'm pretty sure he couda gone 1'43-low

as for his 3'46.9, he was "only" chasing 3'47.6 & pacing geared to that target

chasing a faster target, i'm pretty sure he couda held on for 3'46-flat

prelim :

1'43.25 / 3'46.0 ->

2'12.7

2'42.8

3'29.0

he couda got close to 3rd on all-time 1k list

I like your calculator, think it's fun and often surprisingly accurate. I just feel like 2:49.47 means you're close to having a chance to break 3:50/mile with Centrowitz-like endurance. I'm not buying 2:49.47 = 3:55.7 (could be that I'm a marathoner and my 1200 and mile speed is almost the same).

If Centro gets a good indoors race I see AT LEAST 3:52,x.

call me snake wrote:

I'm just going to convert to 1500. At present time, if he were to run a 1500, I'd say 3:35.5. I guess you can extrapolate this to a 3:52.5/3:53.0 mile if you want.

Standing by my prediction based off inclusion of 2:17.00 1,000 meter effort.