Centro American Record Attempt - 7/24

how now brown cow wrote:

Star wrote:My main concern I that he touched everyone’s hand on his cool down lap.

Vaxxed or not he’s risking a COVID positive test heading into Tokyo.

The funny part is the full hugs for the kids and then constantly wiping his nose/head with his hand.

Go back and count how many times he touches his face. It's like a drinking game.

This is going to be fascinating because not just delta going around with 1000 times the viral load but all the kids are getting RSV now.

But hey viruses just bounce off you with the vax right? lol

Hope on one in authority gets wind of that, especially Tokyo officials.

Running aside, he's a bit of an idiot to be honest for doing that.

zcvxzxcv wrote:

Why would Cruz or anyone else express doping suspicions about Flojo in 1984? 1988, eminently possible. In 1984, she was not that dominant later athlete, totally under the radar.

Oops! You are right. That's what I get for posting from my phone and not searching before posting. That imbroglio occurred during the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988:

Seb Coe. wrote:

1500m is well short of a mile, so he'll be OK in Tokyo.

It's only 108 meter short. He was cooked well before 1500. They said he needed a 26 to get the record so that means he ran at best a 28 going as hard as he could. Just not gonna cut it.

Official splits from the race..?

My high school teammate Joe Falcon moves down a notch to #6 since Centro beat his time from 1990 by 0.05.

I'm stumped wrote:

Carma wrote:

Clearly Jerry was way too ambitious!! 😰

I give the dude credit for running with all his fanboys all around the track, that had to be a little tough but think of it this way...it's not going to get any easier in Tokyo with animals that will be there...a 3:32 effort isn't gonna intimidate anyone.

This race was very telling. Great, he got a PB but he will never beat Alan's AR. Yup, probably gonna get embarrassed in Tokyo bc he keeps shooting his big mouth off about how he will defend the Gold Medal from 2016

1:58 close according to this.

Well all in all a very good time trial. Centro is obviously very fit. Same as many of the best milers this year. Should be very interesting Olympics 1500. I understand why so many here love to predict the outcome. I would rather just inform myself and sit back and enjoy. First of all all the leading principles need to make the final. That’s not always a given. Just ask Jim Ryun in 1972. I love watching Cole Hocker and Centro. But I won’t automatically concede anything to Hocker off a fast pace a slow pace yes but not a fast pace till he actually does it. Anyways I plan on enjoys the ztrack and field at the Olympics . Seems that most people on this site only concern themselves with distance events. I understand given the founders of the site. Anyway enjoy the games. As some have said finding different events on the tv coverage is tricky

Anyone get the 1500 split?

hey centro. if you are reading this. cheers and respect.... if you would have puked and fallen over and not been able to move for a few minutes then you likely would have dropped 3 tenths at least... but cheers and respect just the same. get some real pacers for next time. i'd love to be there clapping and yelling for you. push on

Zac76 wrote:

Should have had pacing lights

They needed something to show the pacers how to control themselves in the first 200-400.

That killed the whole chance of a fast time right there.

Not that 3:49 was slow but 1:52/1:57 isn’t the way to do it.

And when that 1:52 was 55/57 even worse.

It may have been 54/57 at 800m.

They basically went out at 3:40 mile pace.

Troothsayer wrote:

rojo wrote:

Really racially diverse crowd.

Rojo has a bit of Archie Bunker in him. He means well.

Well, it's better than Fuhrer Bunker, I guess.

Anyway...3:49.26 full mile? Sub 3:50 is big. Elite company. That cracks top 90 mile performances ever...counting indoor and outdoor and cracks top 40 individual milers ever. It also puts him at us #5 all time...as he leapfrogs teare, gregorek, falcon, holman, harbour, and spivey.

Runningart2004 wrote:

michimanx wrote:

AR - 10%

3:47 - 15%

3:48 - 50%

3:49 - 15%

3:50+ - 10%

He's not a 3:30 guy anymore. In 2015-2016 I would say he had a good chance.

With the conditions and TT nature of this race....100% over 3:50.

Alan

Stick 2 lifting

rojo wrote:

Really racially diverse crowd.

lol what? It was almost completely white. It would only be considered racially diverse to the status quo if you lived in Maine (or some similarly extremely white state).

asdfsdfsfs wrote:

rojo wrote:

Really racially diverse crowd.

lol what? It was almost completely white. It would only be considered racially diverse to the status quo if you lived in Maine (or some similarly extremely white state).

Skin color doesn't indicate race.

Star wrote:

Not that 3:49 was slow but 1:52/1:57 isn’t the way to do it.

And when that 1:52 was 55/57 even worse.

It may have been 54/57 at 800m.

They basically went out at 3:40 mile pace.

54,6 for Centro so 3:38 pace. Great effort considering that and 600 on his own. I hope this gives him confidence to go with Tim in Doha. Playing games with the pack in a fast race is a losing strategy for most.

i defend webb mentally. I don't think he cracked mentally. I think what it was, was he was a physically powerful runner, kind of an intermediate between a distance runner and a sprinter. It's just hard to maintain that vs. a high mileage kind of guy who is more about volume. Webb was no joke when he had it together. But with good pacing Centro could have made it closer. I think he's preparing himself to avoid a 400 and 200 m kick in the olympics.