You are ignorant. I can't wait for Jakob to break another World Record, just to watch you fume and seethe and waste hours of your days here arguing about it.
He could’ve competed for silver. Yes Thierry is a big name but isn’t the word he was having physical issues? Blanks is as fast as Crippa. Not saying he beats him but he’s there.
Blanks if healthy and all systems go I think could be 10-15s back by Feb. 2025. I think 12:55 is a realistic goal for him for then. Jakob surely will go out at 12:50 pace and then bang it home to drop Fisher who probably maxes out at 12:44-47. What could give this real intrigue and change things is if Hagos who is doing GST and could consider basing himself in the US would jump in.
Thierry had sciatica which is unpleasant but in my experience it is NOT hurting your performances (I had cronic sciatica the last half of my soccer career (lasting more than 40 years) and in my veteran runner career (lasting around 12 years)).
Thierry just isn´t close to Jakob´s level.
Neither is Almgren who struggled all the way to keep in contact and immediately lost ground when Jakob took the lead around 2/3 through.
I think Crippa ran one of the best races of his life. I doubt Blanks could have challenged him.
I think Blanks would have taken silver fairly comfortably. The NCAA lads have peaked for this time of year, the European pros are using this as base training. Blanks will be sharper than anyone other than Jakob and he's a sub-13 guy as well. He'd run away from Crippa over the last km
If Jingy is healthy, I think sub 1245 is in the cards. he should be sub 1240 outdoors and 5-6s seems like a good spread indoors to outdoors (Fisher is 1246 / 1251 for instance).
given the 5k is deemed his best event (due to the fact that he’s won 3 consecutive golds, and that’s without really running it in the main season), he’s not running 12:48 or 12:47. The ‘highest’ I think we see him go is 12:45, but I think we’ll certainly see below that number. Look at the statistics behind his record attempts. It doesn’t make sense in his best event that he would only barely break it.
Still think the 3k is his best event, but would be happy to be proven wrong. 7:17 is probably worth a 12:33-5. The pace will have to be hot to hit under 12:40 and he can check the box and win comfortably in low-12:40s. That is unless Hagos jumps in.
If I extrapolate with IAAF´s ranking points I find that his 3000m WR with 1320 points equals a 5000m in mid 12:30?!
Joshua´s 5000m WR (12:35.34) gives 1302 points and the 18 points difference to the 3000m WR equals almost 5 seconds.
I listened to this pod, IIRC correctly, it was more speculation or dream than an actual rumor? Either way, it's always fun listening to pro runner's perspectives on the competitive circuit.
For crying out loud, let’s hope the field is less than ten guys, all of whom are guaranteed to run under 13:10. We don’t want lapped runner costing Jakob precious seconds.
Being completely honest, I read that before I saw who posted it — I was like what? Are you an idiot? Then I saw it was you, I smiled, and laughed. Makes sense. Enjoy your day!
4 years of training, and aging from 19 to 24 tend to do that for people. Do you honestly still not understand that an athlete might run faster four years after running a time trial?
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4 years of training, and aging from 19 to 24 tend to do that for people. Do you honestly still not understand that an athlete might run faster four years after running a time trial?
I like the way it is assumed here that all Jakob has to do is say what he wants to achieve and it is done. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked out in certain championship finals - and then there was the HM debacle.
It is also interesting to see how he will be faster indoors over the 5k than he has ever achieved outdoors in 3 years. All he needs, it seems, is a "time trial". There may be more to it than that.
4 years of training, and aging from 19 to 24 tend to do that for people. Do you honestly still not understand that an athlete might run faster four years after running a time trial?
It is also interesting to see how he will be faster indoors over the 5k than he has ever achieved outdoors in 3 years.
You are seriously questioning if he will run faster than 13:02.03?
It’s pretty likely this is going down, if you go on the NB Indoor Grand Prix site they have a picture of Jakob and other runners. Clearly they are advertising him.
Crazy how Bekele’s last track world record is going to be gone in less than 2 months time. I know he ran 2000m Indoors as well but that time is pretty weak compared to Jakob’s 2k Outdoors.
What do we think he runs? 12:45?
Is it confirmed Jakob is running? Don’t see a picture of him on the website. Thinking of buying a ticket if he is but can’t figure that out
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