Cheptegei ran the last 4k of his 5k WR in 10:03.0. On that day, he could've done it for sure.
Cheptegei ran the last 4k of his 5k WR in 10:03.0. On that day, he could've done it for sure.
Chep dego wrote:
Cheptegei ran the last 4k of his 5k WR in 10:03.0. On that day, he could've done it for sure.
Pacers and especially pace lights change the game, so I’d imagine more past greats including Geb would have a better shot at it with pace lights.
With the new shoe and tracks it would be a walk in the parc, for Komen, Bekele and Haile.
Why don't you throw Nurmi, Zatopek and Bedford in there too?
Great thread.
It sounds like a new version of the four-minute mile. Too bad it isn't a distance that would be used (or very often), so we might not get to see it play out.
RossiCheated wrote:
Great thread.
It sounds like a new version of the four-minute mile. Too bad it isn't a distance that would be used (or very often), so we might not get to see it play out.
Well, given how WA seems to be majoring on various innovations that seem pretty stupid vs the currently fit for purpose events, them maybe 4000m track races may start popping up.
Bekele for sure even w/o the super spike.
cheptegei could 100% do it if he wanted to hes basically done it for the 5k world record but he hasnt ran supetr fast in quite a while, im just waiting fir the day that he really goes for wr in the 2 mile and 1/2
An event where runners must split each lap of a 400m track in under 60 seconds. Any one failing to split under 60 gets pulled.. see how far one can go.
Runner10287 wrote:
An event where runners must split each lap of a 400m track in under 60 seconds. Any one failing to split under 60 gets pulled.. see how far one can go.
This is harder than 10 laps in 10 mins, but not any harder with pace lights, and probably even easier than averaging 60s/lap over 10 laps without.
JWH and others, where do you think Shaheen comes in at 4k?
anyone who fails to average 60, not split 60.
Just a fan wrote:
JWH and others, where do you think Shaheen comes in at 4k?
I had him in the top-20 all-time (14th. ca. 7/31/2020) on my list, 10:07.06 from 2003. I’ll just keep it at that.
The answer begins and ends here.
3:29.46
3:46.38
7:20.67 WR
7:24.90 WR indoors
7:58.61 WR two consecutive 4:00 miles
7:58.91
12:39.74 WR
Komen 12:39 WR.
Using a cubic regression of the 1500m, 3000m, 5000m, 10000m world records gives a perfect fit, which meets 4000m at 597.60 seconds, or 9:57.60.
This is consistent with some others' speculation based on intuition of Cheptegei's 5000m pacing.
curious321 wrote:
Komen clearly could do it with 7:58 and 12:39 within a month of each other, not discounting his 7:20 a year earlier.
Was he the only human being capable of maintaining 1 min/ lap speed for so long?
Discuss.
Bump, perhaps we'd all agree our current top crop of 5000m guys could be capable of this feat?
curious321 wrote:
Komen clearly could do it with 7:58 and 12:39 within a month of each other, not discounting his 7:20 a year earlier.
Was he the only human being capable of maintaining 1 min/ lap speed for so long?
Discuss.
I think Jakob could answer this for us now.
7:54.10 Two Miles less than a Month ago. 3:57.05 mile 2x. Was just over a second off Daniel Komen's WR 3000m Pace in a TWO MILE RACE.
code5800 wrote:
Yes, of course Jakob is the foremost pretender now. I THINK HE SURPRISED YOU A LOT WITH THAT TIME?
But of course Kejelcha, Kiplimo, Aregawi and Cheptegei must also be in contention.