Thought it was 1:43.33? Regardless, great early season time.
Kemei really set that up well going through 400 in 49 mid and 600 in ~75 high. At 500 I thought maybe we were seeing the sudden emergence of a new world beater, but of course he’d been too aggressive.
Kinyamal also 1:43 in 2nd and Cheruiyot 3rd in what must have been 1:44.xx, having gone around a lot of bodies in the last lap.
Wow, Ugandan Janat Chemusto lowers her PB from 4:15 to 4:01 with a 59.84 last lap to win big. Only 2:13 through 800. Super impressive at altitude, even if it doesn’t affect athletes born, raised and training at altitude that much over 1500.
In a way that’s the performance of the meet so far. I mean Richardson, Cheruiyot and Wanyonyi were all great but not surprising, whereas with Chemusto we just discovered a new Worlds and Olympic finalist.
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Wow, Ugandan Janat Chemusto lowers her PB from 4:15 to 4:01 with a 59.84 last lap to win big. Only 2:13 through 800. Super impressive at altitude, even if it doesn’t affect athletes born, raised and training at altitude that much over 1500.
In a way that’s the performance of the meet so far. I mean Richardson, Cheruiyot and Wanyonyi were all great but not surprising, whereas with Chemusto we just discovered a new Worlds and Olympic finalist.
Yeah. I'd say she's the big discovery. Could very well drop a 3:56 in a competitive race.
Man I wish she’d raced through the line. Probably ~21.80, maybe even faster.
Haven’t seen the race, but…nah. Why bother? This could have been a good race to work on some things. You don’t need to blast a huge time, every time. Real sprints have real consequences.
Save yourself for the big ones, when it counts. Stay within yourself. Don’t break form. Train through meets. IMO Kerley, ADG, and a few others are great at this, maybe SCR now, too.
It would be smart. Maybe this is Gatlin’s advice showing through. Hats off to SCR, 👍 , especially since the 200 isn’t her real event 👍👍
As for SAFP, I get the whole prize fighter matchup thing, but I question the logic. Actual fighters actually get beat up, but track is different. We want to see them run, as often as possible—and in sprints, the suspense is there every single time, no matter what.
Wow, Ugandan Janat Chemusto lowers her PB from 4:15 to 4:01 with a 59.84 last lap to win big. Only 2:13 through 800. Super impressive at altitude, even if it doesn’t affect athletes born, raised and training at altitude that much over 1500.
In a way that’s the performance of the meet so far. I mean Richardson, Cheruiyot and Wanyonyi were all great but not surprising, whereas with Chemusto we just discovered a new Worlds and Olympic finalist.
Yeah. I'd say she's the big discovery. Could very well drop a 3:56 in a competitive race.
Uganda is starting to have depth, they have had great runners in the past, but their depth is growing rapidly