We also will be doing a live watch praty and reaction show starting 5 minutes before the race (so 1:55 pm ET) and then going on for as long as we need to afterwards:
The LRC recap article reads way too negative imo. She honestly didn't miss by that much. On pace through 800 & ran solid through 1200. Even looked fine @ 1500, before really falling off in the last 100. She could have probably run 4:03-4:04ish optimized. That's basically what the article calls for to have the attempt be more viable. I doubt you were this critical when Kipchoge "failed" in attempt #1. She still broke the WR & showed that there's free time left on the table. We've hit a point where the best women's 1500 runner can hit the time you say you want. This should have been written a bit more optimistic. I get the whole marketing angle with Nike wanting to sell us stuff but you didn't even make that argument.
google sidney wooderson world record and click on images to get some idea of what the british surfaces were like.
it's more like cross country than anything.
i can see todays 4 min miler barely managing 410 on those tracks.
take the time and look
almost every track had foot marks and holes with each stride...
it is way worse that imagined.
Wooderson - on a decent track - might well have been the guy to go sub-4:00 if not for WWII.
One time World Record holder for 800m and ran a 4:04.2 mile in 1945 and European Champion in the 5000m (14:08.6) in 1946, despite spending several months of 1944 in hospital with rhematic fever, doctors telling him that he'd never run again, and the impoverish British war-time and post-war diet (due to rationing).
For good measure he won the English National X-Country Championship (I think then at 10 miles rather than the more recent 9 miles) in 1948.
He lost his best years, which would have been early 1940s to the war...
I think part of the issue is that Faith is more of a racer than a time trial runner. And not at peak. So, in a real race, if someone could press her, I think she might have run 4:04 today. Maybe 4:02 on a good day. With a pace cart with a special back end blocking the wind (like has been done for max cycling speed, she might well make it. But in an artificial situation like today, less apt to make it. I like that she is more racer than time trial runner actually.
She just ran the same time as Sydney Wooderson in 1937 when he set the men's world record at that time.
That is impressive in my book.
It may well take a few more years for a woman to go sub 4, but it starts a realistic conversation which had not previously existed.
All power to her.
You are a ffffffing bimbo. Are you serious? Men in 1937 barely trained and had bad shoes and would have beer and drinks before the race.
A WOMAN WILL NEVER RUN Sub 4444!!! You fffing iddddiiotss. say it again—-BIOLOGICAL WOAMN WILL NEVER RUN SUB 44!!!!
maybe a trans “woman” but that’s the only way. This modern pseudo dumb concept of trying to compare woamn to men….womna are weak..they will neverrrrrr run anything close to sub 4. Never sub 14 or sub fffing anything..
you are all moroptrards thinking she could even get close. You understand how weak woman are?
She just ran the same time as Sydney Wooderson in 1937 when he set the men's world record at that time.
That is impressive in my book.
It may well take a few more years for a woman to go sub 4, but it starts a realistic conversation which had not previously existed.
All power to her.
You are a ffffffing bimbo. Are you serious? Men in 1937 barely trained and had bad shoes and would have beer and drinks before the race.
A WOMAN WILL NEVER RUN Sub 4444!!! You fffing iddddiiotss. say it again—-BIOLOGICAL WOAMN WILL NEVER RUN SUB 44!!!!
maybe a trans “woman” but that’s the only way. This modern pseudo dumb concept of trying to compare woamn to men….womna are weak..they will neverrrrrr run anything close to sub 4. Never sub 14 or sub fffing anything..
you are all moroptrards thinking she could even get close. You understand how weak woman are?
Rumor has it that if you press for a shorter amount of time on your key board, you can avoid repeating letters.
I'm interested to observe the decline of real sport.
I am glad you choose to spend time with what angers you, upsets you and riles you up. It's good to know that you are miserable. Now reply, as you always do, and be sure I won't even be coming back here. You are an absolute clown. Faith did nothing for the decline of real sport. Enjoy being a sad old clown.
The length of your post shows you enjoy it more than I do.
Lmao, yeah basically. thats why this is such a shame and embarrasment.
It's not even about the "correlated times" woman drop off way harder
so it's like Nike coming out and saying a guy will run a 18.90 200m or like a 6:59 3000m
Imagine Nike saying we are going sub 7:00 in the 3k when the WR is 7:17.
That is the fffing equivalent. Even Jakob couldnt run 6:59 maybe 7:09....
I bet the 3000m will gain traction in future and goal for sub 7:10 will start and by 2050 we will have sub 7:10......but woman will still be running 4:07 miles...
I am glad you choose to spend time with what angers you, upsets you and riles you up. It's good to know that you are miserable. Now reply, as you always do, and be sure I won't even be coming back here. You are an absolute clown. Faith did nothing for the decline of real sport. Enjoy being a sad old clown.
The length of your post shows you enjoy it more than I do.
Amazing how you have to reply every single time. Whoever called you the slave of Letsrun was absolutely right. 😂
The LRC recap article reads way too negative imo. She honestly didn't miss by that much. On pace through 800 & ran solid through 1200. Even looked fine @ 1500, before really falling off in the last 100. She could have probably run 4:03-4:04ish optimized. That's basically what the article calls for to have the attempt be more viable. I doubt you were this critical when Kipchoge "failed" in attempt #1. She still broke the WR & showed that there's free time left on the table. We've hit a point where the best women's 1500 runner can hit the time you say you want. This should have been written a bit more optimistic. I get the whole marketing angle with Nike wanting to sell us stuff but you didn't even make that argument.
Kipchoge is a MAN! not a woman.
how can you idiots not get this thru your mind.
a Man broke sub 2, yes. A woman will never break sub4.