He trains at what he wants to be the best at. he cannot be the best at absolutely all distances. You understand this? He's an anaerobic freak. The training methods are created for longer distances. What he does in the 800 meters means nothing. He could certainly train more on speed, but it will come at the expense of other strengths
Flat earth? Thats you with youre dinosaur thinking. Go back to the 80s and 90s. You belong there
Take away his drugs,and he wouldnt be as much of an anaerobic freak. 3.34 or 3.35 would pull him up,and he wouldnt be world class at 5000. And he'd run about 7.35 in the 3000.Oh yeah,and he'd never be competitive in 10k races.
He hasn't yet run a super quick(for him)5000 meters,so we dont know just how fast he could be.Also depends on what you call world class. Do i believe he could run a sub 13 minutes,clean? no.
An athlete doesn't have to train for 10 years to be the best in the world. It can happen in 2-3 years, as Elliott and Snell showed. Athletes today like Hull and Bell have shown they can put themselves in contention after only one year. Katir also did it in a year, by carving 8 secs off his 1500 pr to run 3:28. Doping definitely accelerates improvement. It can also keep an athlete in the sport longer, by reducing the effects of aging - hence athletes succeeding in their forties
Of course, it depends on what training foundation you have. But a well known rule of thumb is that you need 10-15 years of serious training to develop world-class endurance. Endurance athletes who succeed early, will most likely be far from his or her potential.
None of the runners you mention have started from scratch, and suddenly become among the best . Snell had a good foundation from other sports. He was clearly in pretty good shape when he decided to commit himself fully to running.
You clearly have little knowledge about training. How can you throw out allegations of doping against hard working honest athletes, which you have no clue is doped? Have you doped yourself and want to justify it? Or were you a failed athlete, who thought everyone else must be doped?
Your questions show you are little informed about the history of doping in the sport and the role it plays today. It is everywhere. Like most fans, you don't want to have to think about it.
Being in "good shape" in order to become a great athlete is so obvious it doesn't need stating. But it doesn't mean, as was claimed, that running requires at least 10 years of training to be any good. Ryun was a world record holder at 19.
He trains at what he wants to be the best at. he cannot be the best at absolutely all distances. You understand this? He's an anaerobic freak. The training methods are created for longer distances. What he does in the 800 meters means nothing. He could certainly train more on speed, but it will come at the expense of other strengths
Flat earth? Thats you with youre dinosaur thinking. Go back to the 80s and 90s. You belong there
What he does - or doesn't do - over the 800 simply demonstrates he is relatively slow for a 1500 runner. That is the point. His inferior kick also shows that. You fans haven't a clue.
More here from the flat-earth society. Yes, he ran that 800 race 4 years ago - because he is too slow to race the event on a regular basis. It's quite a while, too, since he raced the 400.
Yes. In contrast, Murray Halberg and Ron Clarke were some 800m forces with 1:51 speed. This speed enabled Halberg to finish 5ks ss fast as the best today.
Halberg's best distances were the 2 mile/5k. Because he wasn't as fast as contemporaries like Elliott and Snell, the mile wasn't his best distance. In that regard he was similar to Ingebrigtsen, in that endurance was his greatest strength - and so it was for Clarke, although he had less speed than Halberg and no finishing kick, unlike Halberg. In fact Halberg probably had a better kick relative to his competition than Ingebrigtsen does.
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He trains at what he wants to be the best at. he cannot be the best at absolutely all distances. You understand this? He's an anaerobic freak. The training methods are created for longer distances. What he does in the 800 meters means nothing. He could certainly train more on speed, but it will come at the expense of other strengths
Flat earth? Thats you with youre dinosaur thinking. Go back to the 80s and 90s. You belong there
What he does - or doesn't do - over the 800 simply demonstrates he is relatively slow for a 1500 runner. That is the point. His inferior kick also shows that. You fans haven't a clue.
Why are you fixated on talking about his fans and his 800m speed?
Jakob did compete in the Euro U20 Steeplechase (maybe he won? Can't remember). He may want to add the Steeple WR to his collection at some point.
Yes, he won the steeple Euro U20 when he was 16. And he won his first 3000m steeple ever raced prior to that against adults in 8.26 (still pb). And he was close to qualifying from the heat in London WC 2017 in this same event, but fell over the last hurdle… And he won the Nationals steeple (still 16) against some ten years older specialists, and two more events (and a bronze in the 800m)…
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