Wow you guys don’t know much about running. Jakob is a 1500m guy. He couldn’t just produce a winning 10k grass time in the middle of training. Give em a month. Absolutely zero chance he wins doing a hill workout and flying in the next day.
"Jakob is a 1500m guy"!
Please tell this to the competitors he destroyed in the 5000m final in Eugene.
In the initial stages they almost ran shoulders to shoulders until Jakob took off just over halfway putting 45 seconds on Hicks on the final kilometers. Hicks got a respectable 5th place.
Wow you guys don’t know much about running. Jakob is a 1500m guy. He couldn’t just produce a winning 10k grass time in the middle of training. Give em a month. Absolutely zero chance he wins doing a hill workout and flying in the next day.
"Jakob is a 1500m guy"!
Please tell this to the competitors he destroyed in the 5000m final in Eugene.
He didn't destroy anyone, fanboy. Unless you tell us he got destroyed by 4 athletes in Doha.
Please tell this to the competitors he destroyed in the 5000m final in Eugene.
He didn't destroy anyone, fanboy. Unless you tell us he got destroyed by 4 athletes in Doha.
Come on now. He went wide for a water stop twice during the race and had such a significant gap by the end that he was practically walking over the finish line. You can't seriously rewatch that race and say that the result was in any doubt whatsoever.
I don´t know if I am a fanboy but I have followed Jakob for more than 5 years and long ago predicted he would get a great career barring illness and injury (and I am not Norwegian).
But you are definitively a HATER!
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Yes I can agree that Jakob was destroyed in the Doha 5000m or perhaps rather he destroyed himself by overestimating his strenght when he started his run for home 300m out.
I think he could have got the bronce if he had stayed behind Mo Ahmed 100-200m longer.
And as stated above he had just finished highschool and just turned 19 (14 days before the Doha 5000m).
The same age as Colin Sahlman has now. An athlete who is predicted by many posters to get a great career despite his lacklustre X country races lately. I agree that Colin has the potential to be a top runner PROVIDED HE INCREASES HIS AEROBIC CAPACITY SIGNIFICANTLY.
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