Graham Blanks "time trial" workout: 2 miles in 8:16, full rest, one mile in 4 flat

BLANKMAN

It happened a few minutes ago!

Agreed he'll never beat the big dogs

That is awesome, but I am worried that he is going to be another Bob Kennedy... fast times, but can't kick with the top dogs. He's young though, so he has time to develop a nasty kick.

I think a part of it was leading more than half of the dang race in front of a few veteran pros and high quality college guys. Blanks really made that race at the TEN.

Very impressive workout. A bit of a shame we couldn’t have just seen him race a 5k instead, but nothing really on the calendar this time of year in the US and I believe he’s still in school.

lol

Harvard's undergraduates academic environment is a joke. My brother is a grad student there. He TAs and teaches. The university does everything possible to keep students from failing. At my alma mater if you flunked a test, that was that. My brother is supposed to let students stop half way through exams and finish them later for mental health reasons. The only non-joke aspect is that many students see every other student as a threat because everyone was a top student in high school. This results in many students overpressuring themselves to be better than everyone else. This is stupid imo.

Yes, I'm noting the hs 2M pr because it means nothing about his current form at 2M, just as the inferior time someone pointed out also means nothing about his current fitness. You have to look at a race that converts well to predict what he actually could do. If you have a sub-7:30 3k pr, then a 9:16 2M pr from hs or even, say, an 8:16 time trial doesn't say what your 2M capacity is.

All of these folks going on and on about how he "broke 26 on the road to Tokyo and he is 6th all time for the USA and in the top 50 world list".............NOONE HAS EVER BROKE 26! The world record is 26:11 set by Joshua Cheptegei on May 24, 2024.