and Elle Purrier is the most muscular distance woman I've ever seen.
God, is she built from the waist down . . . has thighs & glutes most 400 runners would die for . . . no wonder Elle has such a fast last lap.
Combine those muscles & speed with all that endurance she's built up since high school, we may be looking at the perfect miler and future world record holder.
Visual evidence - - distance runners don't have pins like these:
Bower Man III wrote:
Visual evidence - - distance runners don't have pins like these:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLu3TBGnXfh/
Creep.
not trolling, but didnt Joshua set WR in similar conditions?
Am I seeing this right. Limon ran 15:28 in the 5k and 30 minutes later ran the 10K? yet other athletes dropped out left and right?
Limon won the B heat 5k yesterday. Still an impressive double
Makes Paper wrote:
I feel like if KK runs 31:15 she's looking at D'Amato's heels from a distance.
You called it. KK looked at her heels and barely caught her on the home straight...
Kind of forgot about Koko. I guess that’s what true world class looks like when racing national class. That was an impressive run. That was far from an ideal night and to do it all solo for the most part was insane. Far and away the performance of the meet. I’d bet if you put D’ Amato in that BTC 10k last week, she would have run sub 31. Yet last night she was lapped by Koko.
Lololol yeah KOKO was sweating too!
women showed up in the "terrible" weather and still had a handful of OTQs even in the 10k. its funny to see so many pros spending time at altitude where there is basically zero humidity and race in normal conditions for texas (and a lot of other places) and blow up. tokyo can be quite humid.
Jo72 wrote:
Makes Paper wrote:
I feel like if KK runs 31:15 she's looking at D'Amato's heels from a distance.
You called it. KK looked at her heels and barely caught her on the home straight...
Keira ran a gutsy race, sacrificing a better time performance in an effort to go with KK early to see if she could hang. I don't think she realized what kind of shape KK was in until she had already committed to a pretty aggressive pace and then KK started to pull away around 8 or 9 laps in.
I think it showed a lot of toughness for Keira to push on by herself for rest of the race once she was dropped and had to run the last 4 miles by herself after committing to an early pace that was a little over her head.
trackand field dues wrote:
Kind of forgot about Koko. I guess that’s what true world class looks like when racing national class. That was an impressive run. That was far from an ideal night and to do it all solo for the most part was insane.
In the brief interview koko said she felt not impeded by the weather. She mentioned only the wind,not humidity. She likes heat more than cold. She also likes solorunning. In fact she seemed a bit uncomfortable running behind keira and the pacer at the beginning. And then she is like a car on cruise control...
Perhaps Keira could have maintained 76s if she had someone to work with.
I agree. They were sort of jockeying a bit after the pacer stepped off. She really looks like someone who has a good medal chance in the 10k.
Keira ran a gutsy race and certainly deserves respect. But nevertheless some posters here seemed to have grossly misestimated the difference in ability. And the early pace was simply the goal of 31:20 which turned out illusory, at least under the conditions. It was not especially set for Koko.
After watching the meet last night have to wonder, was this meet about athletes running qualifying times or hipsters taking photos
rojo wrote:
It said that Kessler fell but there was plenty of time left. That's absurd. The moment you fall in a pro 1500, it's over. Period.
Has there ever been a major 1500 or even 5000 race where someone fell but came back to win or medal?
It’s happened in the 10,000. Viren at the Olympics and Natosha Rogers at the US trials
rojo wrote:
Can I take back everything I said about Josh Thompson being a lock for the Olympic team?
Glad Knight looked good. I heard recently he makes closer to 500k per year than 250k pear year. Guy makes a TON.
Did you notice in the post-race interview, Knight was asked if he was nervous because of all the big names in the race. I’ve known he is a genuinely nice person, but I’m still impressed with his response to this ridiculous question . Instead of referencing his NCAA titles or his two top-10 World Championship performances (in other words, he IS a big name in this race) he said something like “I get nervous for all my races.”
She has been successful doing a lot of the longer stuff. I think all the marathoners who missed their chance at the trials are going to have to reckon with the fact that you still need speed for the 10k.
correctamundo wrote:
Has there ever been a major 1500 or even 5000 race where someone fell but came back to win or medal?
Not a fall but a larger loss of time occurred in the 2017 WC Women's steeple when Chepkoech missed the first water jump and had to turn around. She lost a full seven seconds and was leading with only 250 meters to go. Ended up in fourth.