Keely Hodgkinson CRUSHES indoor 800m world record - 1:54.87

What's her 400m best? Most 1:54 runners are around 52.

She ran 1:54 indoors in February. Plenty of time to step her game up. Stay healthy, improve speed, several months from now or next season.

No, most 1:54 runners do NOT go out in 52. Stop already with your nonsense posts.

She has run 51.6 or so, so even if she can run 50.9, going out in 52 is just too close to her limit. Unless her 400 speed has improved substantially, which seems unlikely.

As I said in her thread last week, she's coming for records this year.

If she's running 1:54s indoors, she's ready for a low 1:54/high 1:53 outdoors in 2026.

If she breaks the outdoor 1:53 WR she'll need to open with something like 52/53. And hard through 600m.

She won't do it running even or negative splits in an 800. It's too anaerobic of a race. You can use your anaerobic energy system for up to 90 seconds.

90 seconds gets her to around 650m(or more) then hang on 22 seconds for dear life.

That's the recipe for 1:51/1:52

Werro and Duguma shared lane 4. I’m sure that pushed Werro to go out harder and get some separation, which she did. Beyond that, she tried to stay on Keely’s heel as long as she could.

no chit, sherlock

Obliterating a 24 year old record by almost a second... black page?

Absolute dominance.

One headline says crushed. One says smashed. Which one is more descriptive of the new record?

Neither, it's clearly obliterated.

The ultimate 400m/800m runner (JK) negative split the WR outdoor 800m. She also ran 47.99 for 400m. With a PR of 51.6, Keely isn't going out in 52 anything. Keely went out in 56.0 today, after a too fast opening 200m of 26.8 (to get the rail). That is probably as fast as she needs to to go, but with more even 200m splits of 27.5/28.0 (55.5)/28.5 (1.24.0)/29.0 so 55.5/57.5 = 1.53.0. Equally she could try 56/57 as 28/28/28.5/28.5. I presume that her 400m hasn't improved (51.6), but she might want to test that out as well - if she can stay healthy doing it - but her hamstring issues last year might make her cautious on that score.

BTW my HS 1.48 guy was going 53/55, later as a College 1.46 guy going 52/54 off a 400 PR of 48.0. So not sure why a 1.53 person needs to go out in 51-52!! Could Kratochvilova have been able to do that (1.46-48) if she moved to the 800m earlier in her career? Doubtful as she seemed to develop late as it is - even giving her the benefit of the doubt on her not doping to get that level in the first place. Also, the guy ran a 4.02 1600m in HS (10+ years ago), something I doubt that she ever had the endurance for.

Expecting 1.51-52 for Keely is asking for too much. IF she breaks it, it will be marginal, she has neither the 400m speed of Mu (49.5) or proven 1500m endurance - like GHB (3.52) - to take a big chunk off the WR.

Here it is:

Total Running Production

Right!

1 minute 54.87 seconds; 8457 days after it was set on the same day you were born.

A numerologist would stroke out over this.

Wouldn't put too much stock into indoors time nowadays. Bol's 49.17, Kejelcha 3:47 and they never replicate that outdoors.

That makes no sense. Keely has ALREADY replicated 1:54 outdoors.

yeah, but many people seem to think indoor times are necessarily slower, and thus Kelly will run 1:53 in summer. I reckon it would still be around 1:54. The only one who could've broken 1:54 was 2021 Mu with Maurten.