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What did Jakob run at this age?
3:31
` wrote:
What did Jakob run at this age?
3:31
Jakob is the greatest teenage athlete ever and likely the clean WR holder at 1500 and possibly even the 5000. Insulting to compare him to some random American kid.
Please, your trolling attempts are weak and useless. not the thread, not the time.
zcxvzxcv wrote:
There is zero evidence so far that the track spikes help. Look up my broader lists on the subject.
Imagine if Webb had the spikes and trained with Willis in hs
Its likely that the shoes make a difference, but not a crazy one. Someone above said this was equivalent to a 3:40, which is unlikely, its probably more like 3:35 high ish in normal spikes.
spikeshelp wrote:
zcxvzxcv wrote:
There is zero evidence so far that the track spikes help. Look up my broader lists on the subject.
Imagine if Webb had the spikes and trained with Willis in hs
The training wouldn't even be relevant.
It's the shoes. I repeat. It's the mf'ing shoes. The sooner we all come to grips with that the better.
If the clown shoes had existed in 2001 Webb would have run 3:49 with el G winning in 3:45. Facts.
Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:
zcxvzxcv wrote:
There is zero evidence so far that the track spikes help. Look up my broader lists on the subject.
Some random high school kid running 3:34 seems like pretty good "evidence."
Boing boing.
No. This is a kid who trains with Nick Willis and completed a version of the Michigan in 50.
spikeshelp wrote:
zcxvzxcv wrote:
There is zero evidence so far that the track spikes help. Look up my broader lists on the subject.
Imagine if Webb had the spikes and trained with Willis in hs
Well, he trained with Willis when he was 18 or 19 and didn't run 3:34, right?
3rd faster U18 athlete ever and only ..65 off breaking the World U18 record. Just put himself as the WJ lead in 2021 by almost 2 seconds, and made the top 15 overall on the 1500m 2021 list so far this year. WOW kid is amazing...anyone know how many miles he runs (his highest weekly mileage)?
But they didn't, so 🤷♂️.
The day of reckoning will come at the Trials. US distance depth has improved since 2001.
Care to bet whether Hobbs places better than Webb did at 2001 USAs?
Jacob was born September 20, 2000, so he was still 17 when he ran 3:31 and still 18 when he ran 3:30, but then they were in July in Lausanne behind Cheruiyot and in Monaco behind Cheruiyot and others, not in Portland in a 3:33(?) race in May.
2019 3:30.16 Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne (SUI) 05 JUL 2019
2018 3:31.18 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 20 JUL 2018
the 1500 at the trials will be insane now that all this happened. Someone impressive probably won’t even make the final. Now u got Kessler with a faster pr than Hocker(has the indoor mile tho) and Nuguse. All the OTC mid d guys ran super well with two getting the olympic standard(Hayward and Paulson are foreigners tho). Then u got like Avila, Prakel. And this is in addition to Centro, Engels and Thompson who are all officially rounding into form
Dye wrote:
Care to bet whether Hobbs places better than Webb did at 2001 USAs?
Webb was fifth. Kessler MAYBE makes the final.
Forgot to mention Henry Wynne bouncing back after some bad races/the incident in california
VIPAM wrote:
3rd faster U18 athlete ever and only ..65 off breaking the World U18 record. Just put himself as the WJ lead in 2021 by almost 2 seconds, and made the top 15 overall on the 1500m 2021 list so far this year. WOW kid is amazing...anyone know how many miles he runs (his highest weekly mileage)?
only he's not actually under 18?
So, does anyone have any video of this race? I see the links on the first page, but they don't work for me. This is insane a high schooler ran that fast.
plus he is 2.5 seconds faster than Webb on his best HS day.
Wake up.
what's the incident in California sorry I'm uninformed
Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:
Jakob is the greatest teenage athlete ever and likely the clean WR holder at 1500 and possibly even the 5000. Insulting to compare him to some random American kid.
Some random kid that just started running in 2019.
Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:
Jakob is the greatest teenage athlete ever and likely the clean WR holder at 1500 and possibly even the 5000. Insulting to compare him to some random American kid.
Dumb post. Not just cuz of the stupid doping innuendo. Jim Ryun relative to his time era was undoubtedly a better teen athlete than Jakob, it’s not close.
Kessler is a phenom and his times are historic. Moreover, unlike Jakob, he wasn’t training for a decade for this and doesn’t have as much high-level work to this point. This is a spectacular run and it will be exciting to see if he can do a Lyles/Norman and make some noise at the Trials.