Not a chance. Even I can "go after the world record" and we all know the result is the same as Yared did it. Just delusional, Jakob is way out of his class.
Seriously? Yared is gonna run 3:44. He's the absolute last person who I thought would do something like this, and must be the most confident he has ever been in his fitness to go for a world record like this.
Yared went for the WR at Millrose and got it, dipping under 3:47.00.
Doubt he will dip under 3:45.00, which he will need to do to get Jakob's record
Not a chance. Even I can "go after the world record" and we all know the result is the same as Yared did it. Just delusional, Jakob is way out of his class.
This is BU. Anything is possible, therefore it's not delusional. There's a shortlist of like 4-5 non-Jakob athletes who could realistically challenge the record at BU with wavelights and great pacemaking.
Seriously? Yared is gonna run 3:44. He's the absolute last person who I thought would do something like this, and must be the most confident he has ever been in his fitness to go for a world record like this.
Yeah, that's because it's TGTBT. He's on the sauce.
Seriously? Yared is gonna run 3:44. He's the absolute last person who I thought would do something like this, and must be the most confident he has ever been in his fitness to go for a world record like this.
Yared went for the WR at Millrose and got it, dipping under 3:47.00.
Doubt he will dip under 3:45.00, which he will need to do to get Jakob's record
Jakob spending just over 3:45.00 on the track, thinking the whole time how annoying and cheery Yared is. ...wants the record off Yared...as a service to track fans.
P.S. ...they should both focus on 1500, mile shouldn't be an event.
I see 3:45.14 as being just a bit too fast for Nuguse. I do not see that mark going down on Sunday. Guse is a super tough guy though, and he will lay it all out there.
Regarding the last one, I think Nuguse and Ritz will manage okay. In his breakout season of 2023, he ran an American record of 7:28 for 3k indoors on January 27, raced at a high level in pretty much every outdoor race, and finished with his best race of the season, his 3:43 mile at Pre on September 16. Granted last year was different as the DL final was his worst race of the year as he was only 6th.
You're right in that the gap for a post-indoor training block is shorter this time though. In '23, he went from February 22 to May 6 without racing. Last year, he went from March 2 to April 27. This year it will be March 2 to April 5.
Maybe he trains through one or two of the Grand Slams but historically he's been able to race at a high level pretty much the entire season.
Not to have my original point misconstrued - I'm not predicting doom for Yared here I personally am just interested to see this goes and not just for him, but all the MD/LD guys with this "new" focus in a time of the year that has been traditionally devoid of races (or purely local meets with really low focus).
Obviously the almost universal shift in training philosophy means that these guys are now so much closer to their peaks all year round and need very little to get themselves ready to run things like sub 3.50 miles which is so so different from even 20 years ago. So on that level I agree, Ritz and YG (in this case) will be fine. What I really wonder about is more the mental/emotional side of it. Sometimes in a sport (and in the case of running) almost exclusively physical in it's demand we can forget about the mental side. But racing, being up for racing and the full "door to door" can be draining.
I don't personally subscribe to the "guys will just train through it" narrative. These guys are all competitive and I have a hard time imagining them stepping out on the track ready to actively mail in any race just to try and circumvent the physical demand. With respect to the GST program it's easy to forget but it's not just the races. You are at each venue basically 5 days and that's assuming you want to fly in only a day before and fly out immediately the day after. That's a lot of time bouncing around airports, hotels etc.
You mentioned some previous seasons and with all due respect it's ever so slightly misleading. In '23 he raced Madrid on Feb 22 and yes he next raced May 6, but that was one 800m race in Walnut. That's a 2.5 hour flight from Boulder (to LA). He really didn't start "outdoors" until Rabat at the end of May. Last year he finished indoors at Worlds on the 2nd and the next race was in Philly on that 27th of April but it was only one race and he didn't race again until Pre almost a month after that. I think we can reasonably agree these are vastly different circumstances. Just talking Yared, he's followed a pattern of finishing indoors late Feb/early March, then racing one national low stress meet followed by one or two international DL meet prior to trials each of the last 2 years.
Look as a track fan I think it's awesome he's going for this tomorrow (though I wonder if Jakob hadn't broken that record if he still would be racing here trying to run what will be the 8th fastest mile ever run by a human being) but this is all really new territory in this really new world of track and field, and just hoping for the best from all these guys season long. Tokyo is really the race that matters.
That is a tough world record now. I love that he's going after this. Usually, the lion gets them and there's no more fight in them. Jakob crushed that new world record. I hope Yared really gets after it. 3:44 indoors would be something else even for a guy with a 3:43.97 outdoors, as he was able to draft the whole way behind a 3:43.76.
Jakob crushed it but his focus was on getting 1500 en route. If that wasn’t the case it would be untouchable now for Yared but this is right in the edge of doable. We’ll see how much faster BU is if anything and what a lack of crowd and competition does if anything .
Watch Grant’s race at BU. The crowd will be going insane for Yared
This will be a fine setup for guys in 3:49-52 shape. Just run at back behind Mario Yared and Hoare. You’ll hit 1:54-5 half way and then hang on and maybe pass Olli.
Not a chance. Even I can "go after the world record" and we all know the result is the same as Yared did it. Just delusional, Jakob is way out of his class.
Noah Ngeny was able to hang with El G for the mile and even beat him when it mattered most.
Nugese has already demonstrated the same - no reason at all to believe he can't be Jakob - HE HAS
Not a chance. Even I can "go after the world record" and we all know the result is the same as Yared did it. Just delusional, Jakob is way out of his class.
Noah Ngeny was able to hang with El G for the mile and even beat him when it mattered most.
Nugese has already demonstrated the same - no reason at all to believe he can't be Jakob - HE HAS
He will break it and ingetits will go home devastated. He can’t break records or win titles anymore 🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭
Says the guy a little more than a week after Jakob broke the indoor 1500m and mile records and is soon to grab 2 more Euro golds
Are you stupid? How does a guy go from 3;46 high to suddenly 3:45 flat in the same winter after already maxing out? You saw him struggling at millrose didn’t you? This sucker will face the music and get caught soon.
He ran 3:46 four weeks ago and 3:43 six months ago, so the only thing that we know for sure is that he's capable of it.
Not to nitpick, but Goose ran 3:43 in 2023. That is to say, he is capable of 3:45 indoors - whether he gets it or not remains to be seen. the 3:46 was his first race since September so you’d have to think he’s improved since then. I think he runs 3:45.5 and just misses it, but I hope I’m wrong and he breaks 3:45!