harkmug wrote:
THIS!
Kipchoge showed what is needed to break More Farah. If only the Kenyans/Ethiopians had tried a very fast pacing strategy in championship 5K/10K, Farah's sit and kick wouldn't have gotten him as many medals. Also see Kawauchi w.r.t Rupp.
Did you not watch the 2017 10000 meter world championship?
Scorpion_runner wrote:
FFF wrote:
He looked like a real runner, not the hybrid derivative image we've been seeing recently (Mo Farah today).
this makes no sense. What does a real runner look like? It's based on gear?
More and more people are wearing compression: rupp, mo, kipchoge......cuts down on drag.
Yes, unfortunately, it's based on gear. Farah might as well have Zoot all over his stuff.
I'll give Kipchoge a pass for last year because Nike no doubt told him that was faster for the sub 2 effort. Of course, they have a thing or two to learn about insoles, so there's that. EK wore shorts that were shorts at London. That's what I said. Farah looked like he was about to put on huge Oakley sunglasses and get on a TT bike.
I'll never understand why chasing records and having pacers is frowned upon.
What are the pacers instructed to do if the leaders push past their pace? Go with what the leaders want or hang back at the pace they were hired to run? Just wondering....
Without male pacemakers in London, the US still wouldn't have had a female athlete break 2hrs20
First half is considerably faster than the second half.
First 5k is by far an away the fastest 5k over the entire course.
It seems like it was the man who knows he can run the marathon distance in 2.00.25 in optimal conditions who requested 2.02.00 pace over the first half of a course where there is a 140ft net drop.
Leaders ran 12s seconds faster than WR pace through the first 5k where all of this net drop occurs.
