Jakob either had a bad day or even on 10k he would struggle to be world class

He did it on basically a whim after a long season during an Olympic year and days after racing a 1500m. He also is specifically peaked and trained for the 1500m-5k distance. He's never even trained for any distance over 5k. I'm not reading into this result very much, especially on tired legs.

I also think a road 10k would have gone a lot better than a half marathon. His 10k split today was already very good.

Don't even mention psychiatry. No clinical base. The only prededures they do have are destructive. The meds have worse repercussions than actually being mentally ill. Often these people use 'the force' the create diagnosis with generally no basis in reality but opinion. Go to a psychiatry convertion once in your life. They are all in some way either odd or eccentric or terrible or a mixture of the 3.

no offence, but I would trust a medical expert than some random strangers on the internet.

No, you can't just diagnose a person through his online footage like that and that requires a professional to do do. Stay in your lane, Armstrong.

His 27:25 opener really ate his lunch, so I doubt he would have run much faster had it been a 10K race.

well, he does like talking big, like how the half-marathon is his best distance, but I think any sane person would not take everything he says as gospel.

with a 3:30 and a long season of 1500m racing on his legs though.

He is a narcissist but that has long been established before he ran a HM.

Walking record?

You haven't enough information to know yet whether Trump is a narcissist?

Seriously no, we haven't. It may be groundbreaking to you, but someone can be a despicable person without having any mental disorders. What you're literally doing is like seeing a lazy kid who always pays no attention and sleep through lectures at school and saying he has ADHD. No, it doesn't work that way.

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You've conveniently forgotten that he has stated he wants all the distance records up to at least the half marathon. If it was just a training jaunt why did he go out with the wr pace that he knew had been asked for - and consequently blew up? He knew he was running at wr pace, so was part of the attempt, but what he didn't know was his own capacity: he is nowhere near as good at longer distances as he thinks he is. But that conforms with his very inflated sense of self.

Observing an extreme egotist or narcissist doesn't require specialised psychiatric diagnosis. It is observable in everything they say and do. Trump isn't merely "despicable" - his narcissism is off the charts and only the naive, gullible and wilfully blind can't see that.

no, you can't "observe" a narcissist. They can only be diagnosed. All you're doing is just add certain clinical labels to someone which actually undermines your point - because you're blaming their indecency on certain mental illnesses rather than them simply being jerks.

"Narcissism" is not a psychiatric term. It has long been in usage before appropriated by psychiatrists, coming out of its origins in Greek mythology. It isn't an arcane disorder, like schizophrenia, that can only be diagnosed by clinical experts. It is now little more than a label applied to extreme egotists, who are unfortunately all too common in public life and who make the evidence of their nature all too apparent to those who encounter them, through what they say and do. But if you wish to cavil at what has become an everyday term, perhaps you might find the description "a total wanker" more recognisable.

Jacob is young. His race strategy sometimes sucks. Sometimes he makes questionable decisions. So, what?

It's sport. It's meant to be fun. Why NOT do crazy stuff sometimes?

We are well past the point where letsrun mods should take contact with the old man Armstronglivs caretakers. Inventing stuff to get angry about is a new sad low. Lies, hate, ignorance. He is what he accuses everyone else of.