Even if you ignore the fact that it's a performance that beat some of the best runners in the world and broke a 28 year old world record, don't you think it's a useful fitness indicator for Jakob in the more "important" distances like the 1500/5000? Or are you one of those guys who still thinks he's a 12:48 man because only his 5000 times can be used to predict his 5000 fitness?
Endurance records are never as mind blowing as they seem. I'll continue to assert that every time. There is always someone who can sustain near-peak effort level longer and faster than was previously deemed possible.
The swimming 1500 meter record was just broken in the Olympics in a slow pool by a guy who said he wasn't thinking about the record and that it wasn't a priority.
Even if you ignore the fact that it's a performance that beat some of the best runners in the world and broke a 28 year old world record, don't you think it's a useful fitness indicator for Jakob in the more "important" distances like the 1500/5000? Or are you one of those guys who still thinks he's a 12:48 man because only his 5000 times can be used to predict his 5000 fitness?
The same guys that think Jakob only has the ability to run a 12:48 5,000m are the ones speculating that Jim Ryun could have run 3:25. Don't worry about it.
Neither have run those times, but at least Ingebrigsten has a ton of other fitness/race results to show he's faster than 12:48. The list of dudes who never ran a 7:17 or 7:54 or 3:26.7 is pretty much every human in the history of the earth's population too, btw.
Just go down to your local track and run a 14.56 for 100m. Once that gets comfortable, then run a 29.12 for 200m, and so on 28 more times. Lemon Squeezy.
Wow, it just hit me just how insane this is when you broke it down to 200 pace. I used to be thrilled with 8x200 at sub 30 pace with 200 meter rest!
Just go down to your local track and run a 14.56 for 100m. Once that gets comfortable, then run a 29.12 for 200m, and so on 28 more times. Lemon Squeezy.
Wow, it just hit me just how insane this is when you broke it down to 200 pace. I used to be thrilled with 8x200 at sub 30 pace with 200 meter rest!
I wonder how it feels to experience moving that fast that long relative to your surroundings. For many of us it's like running a 400 fast and just keeping going, as though in a dream. In future I hope technology enables athletes to wear micro cameras for every runner to give a first person view of pace (and another science fiction device for the psychological perception of effort, to know how deep the pain cave actually is) Perhaps relative to his 3:26 1500m pace and being used to similar speeds it's too familiar to be as it would were mere mortals able to do so.
This already exists. the tobii pro 3 glasses already allow one to get 1080x1920 @25 fps with eyetracking coords. the reality is that none of the athletes would wear the current device with the bulky battery pack that you have to wear on your back(it's significantly more friction than a whoop, practically a 4lb books-sized battery sits in a pouch that jostles up and down unless you wear another dri-fit shirt over the top of the pouch).
The Meta RayBan glasses look promising w.r.t. getting the battery into the smaller form factor for competitive athletics, but I think that is capped to 30 secs of continuous video. The quality for these are 1376x1824 @ 30 fps, but the eye-tracking data may also not be exposed for a SDK/3rd party API (not that the tobii software was that good). I'm also not sure that the RayBans have eye-tracking.
I think it would be cool to see at least the perspective of those who chose to wear shades during the race (maybe the Oakley crew could collab with a hardware company to get a pair on Josh or Olli).
tho tbh if you just want the experience, just find a track that allows you to ride a road bike and just crank out 58s. you could do a hard track workout before to simulate the "pain cave" haha