Jakob takes the lead when it's appropriate to take the lead. He doesn't decide beforehand like you're implying. It depends on what the rest of the field is doing. If somebody runs 52 for the first lap, Jakob's not going to take the lead even if that is his race plan.
It’s 1:46.4: he added it up right there in his post. I agree that he cannot run a 1:46.4 last 800 with a 25.4 last 200/12.6 last 800 (50.4 pace? Really?) in a 3:28-3:31 race. The splits are too fast, but I agree with the strategy.
Yeah even off the slowest opening pace (like an Abdi Bile-esque 1.20.4 opening 500m/1.50.4 opening 700m) Jakob is not able to do that. I don't think he would get close to a 1.46.4 final 800m even with even splits, let alone a 12.6 final hundo.
What I do think he can run is a 2.18.0 (ish) final 1000m going 55.5, 55.3, 27.2 or something in that ballpark, and I do think that is enough consistent pace pressure on the field that they would struggle to accelerate past him during the final 150m. And when you make it a pure test of strength/war of attrition in that final 200 then we know who is the best guy (the one who has run the fastest in the field and has run 7.17.55 for 3000m).
In Budapest 2023 Jakob was sick, so that was really bad timing. But a mistake/misjudgement (or maybe it was due to the illness) was slowing down for the second lap. First lap was 56.low, second lap was 58.low. Slowing down like that gives guys like Kerr a really good chance to recover.
Jakob takes the lead when it's appropriate to take the lead. He doesn't decide beforehand like you're implying. It depends on what the rest of the field is doing. If somebody runs 52 for the first lap, Jakob's not going to take the lead even if that is his race plan.
Yes, that's why I said: "I'm sure he'd be delighted for someone else to lead the majority of the race like Tim C. did in 2021, as long as the pace is fast." Letting someone else lead would of course be a real-time decision he would make based on what another competitor does.
That's part of the beauty of non-paced championship racing. You can have a strategy going into the race, but you also have to be able to react to what your competitors are doing.
Jakob will solo time trial a 3:25 WR in the semifinals and then win the final because his competitors fear him too much, are too timid to commit to a fast pace. He’ll wear a Viking horn helmet in the finals of course.
I think the most important thing for Jakob is that he needs to be able to run his fastest 100m split in the last 100 of the race (and his 2nd fastest from 1300-1400, and his 3rd fastest from 1200-1300). Acting as the pacer and being maxed out on pace with 200m to go opens up the door for others to gather and summon the move to get past him.
It probably goes without saying this is unlikely to work if it’s legitimately “slow” to the bell, but I think it’s an under-confident mistake for him to think the finishing time must be 3:28 or faster. If I were his coach and/or older brother, I’d advise him to get out safely and just relax as much as possible for the first 600m, regardless of the pace. Take over decisively but with the deliberate intention of running every 100m faster than the last. 59.0-57.5-55.5-39.5 is only 3:31.5 but if his last 200 is approaching 26.0 and he’s got a stride or two on his pursuers, who are tangling with each other, that’s difficult to beat.
How is this that different from what he did in 2022 and 2023?
Jakob will solo time trial a 3:25 WR in the semifinals and then win the final because his competitors fear him too much, are too timid to commit to a fast pace. He’ll wear a Viking horn helmet in the finals of course.
You shouldn't. No one else writes 30 posts a day about Jakob. Only you. You are mentally ill.
Yet here you are - with so many others - in the Jakob asylum.
You are not very intelligent. We are here posting a handful of times about Jakob. You are here posting hundreds of times a month about Jakob. That is the difference.
Yet here you are - with so many others - in the Jakob asylum.
You are not very intelligent. We are here posting a handful of times about Jakob. You are here posting hundreds of times a month about Jakob. That is the difference.
I don't post hundreds of times about Jakob. I respond to the idiocies of posters like yourself. It's dirty work but someone has to do it.
You are not very intelligent. We are here posting a handful of times about Jakob. You are here posting hundreds of times a month about Jakob. That is the difference.
I don't post hundreds of times about Jakob. I respond to the idiocies of posters like yourself. It's dirty work but someone has to do it.
You are not very intelligent. We are here posting a handful of times about Jakob. You are here posting hundreds of times a month about Jakob. That is the difference.
I don't post hundreds of times about Jakob. I respond to the idiocies of posters like yourself. It's dirty work but someone has to do it.
You do.
Hundreds of times you have just posted your three beloved Jakob facts (which anybody in this forum already knew before, so all your effort was worth nothing).
New facts about your no. 1 athlete? Nothing.
"Someone has to do it" - yeah. You're really some special guy.