jonesing and counting wrote:
I love peeps wrote:in 3-4 years will be pushing 7:27 or faster, easily.Yes, I'm sure he will. So will:
Mushir Salem Jawher
Yusuf Biwott
Mike Kigen
Boniface Songok
Maregu Zewdie
Joseph Ebuya
All of them have run 7:36 or faster in the last year.
Here's who has ran 7:27 or faster, ever:
1 7:20.67 Daniel Komen KEN 17.05.76 1 Rieti 01.09.1996
2 7:23.09 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR 14.09.74 1 Bruxelles 03.09.1999
3 7:25.02 Ali Saïdi-Sief ALG 15.03.78 1 Monaco 18.08.2000
4 7:25.09 Haile Gebrselassie ETH 18.04.73 1 Bruxelles 28.08.1998
5 7:25.11 Noureddine Morceli ALG 28.02.70 1 Monaco 02.08.1994
11 7:26.62 Mohammed Mourhit BEL
14 7:27.18 Moses Kiptanui KEN 01.10.70 1 Monaco 25.07.1995
18 7:27.59 Luke Kipkosgei KEN 27.11.75 2 Monaco 08.08.1998
20 7:27.72 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 05.11.84 1 Bruxelles 03.09.2004
21 7:27.75 Thomas Nyariki KEN 27.09.71 2 Monaco 10.08.1996
Interesting too that all of these except Kipchoge (one of the best all-time) and the doper Saidi-Seif set their times in the 90's. That was a LONG time ago now sports fans.
You can try and rationalize a 7:25 for Solinsky all you want, but it was pointed out that that is 12 seconds below a 7:36.90.
Do you suppose that he will also improve 6 seconds in a 1500?
The biggest evidence that he WON'T is that in all of recorded history so few have done it.