Interview w/ Narve Nordås - "I am way ahead of last season, can compete w/ Jakob ..."

Narve peaked very well for worlds 3:29 closing in 52 is worlds better than a 3:48 mile in a time trial setting, although Jakob was sick too at worlds

I think Jakob "peaked" quite well for the 2021 and 2022 Lievin indoors 1500meters!?

I really don´t think he PEAKED at these two 1500m races where the last gave him the indoor WR. He is just able to run fast all year - barring illness and injury - due to his superior aerobic capacity.

He was possibly coming directly from base training with just some few days of tapering in these Lievin races.

Jakob get back in to the pool and do your aquajogging.... And call your lawyers to get of Gjerts back. Disgusting to be posting such negative crap about your rivals.

Nordas’ comment is also a bit strange.

Can’t half the Letsrun board compete with Jakob at this point? Isn’t Jakob running on one leg with a bad sacrum right now.

When he's both focused and fit, sure. But we've seen that is sometimes not the case as in his season-opening 3:37 1500 and the sleepwalking 13:26 road 5K where he made similar comments about the slow time despite losing. So he probably should talk less out of his arse when it comes to hitting times so easily. When he is pushing the whole way and in shape he can run fast. When he is sandbagging and running aimlessly, the record talk is misguided.

Just a solid 20+ seconds off of what Jakob could do. Should be a close one this summer!

If it felt easy to him, why shouldn't he say that?

Because clearly it doesn’t always feel easy for him or he wouldn’t have gotten rolled in the 1500 or the road 5K. So to say I can run X time at any time is at odds with how he seems to be. That is the case for some athletes (Jakob, Nuguse most notably), but maybe not Nordas.

Yeah I don't know how you watch the first answer in this video and fail to conclude Nordas is a mega-tool.

I think he is pretty stupid and lets his emotions cloud his judgement in the post race interviews. Imagine tagging along with the training of three brothers and their father for years, only to repeatedly go after one of them years later when you've finally made it. Whish he would learn to not run his mouth, tbh.

Man; you have been cautious and balanced all the way… -But here you really took it out. Made me laugh… (But I think even Narve would agree with your first sentence -pretty much have said something alike himself).