True to an extent, but most of the fastest 3k/5k times—Jakob’s 7:17, the last three 5k WRs (Cheptegei-Bekele-Gebrselassie), Hagos’s 12:36, Fisher’s 12:42 and 7:22, practically all of the 12:43 and faster times in the last ten years, Danny Simmons’s 13:25, and on and on—were run with the last kilometer as the fastest of the race, sometimes significantly so. The best way to approach a 5k time trial is to run the first 3-4k at a pace that’s challenging, but that you’re pretty confident won’t destroy you if you’re having an average race-day, and that you believe you can close a little faster off of if you’re having a good to great day. I think the smart move for Hedengren is just to try to run 73s for 9-10 laps (~9:45 target for 3200) and then obviously at that point, she’ll give everything she has left.
When she ran 15:13.26, her kilometer splits were 3:02.4-3:06.0-3:04.4-3:04.6-2:56.1. We’re inclined to look at that and ask her to try running 3:01s the whole way or whatever, but in reality when people try that they often go over the edge mid-race and wind up running several seconds slower.
182.4, 186.0, 184.4, 184.6, 176.1 put into the pace optimizer
18 14:59.28 Anita Weyermann SUI 8 Dec 77 Rome, ITA 5 Jun 96
19 14:48.07 Zola Budd GBR 26 May 66 London 26 Aug 85
Given that Jane is just over 18 and a half, it's Anita's record that she would be shooting for.
Hedengren beats all but Kosgei and Halladay. Hedengren beats the rest of the field by . . . a lot. She beats Olemomoi by 7 seconds. She was just 5 seconds off of Parker Valby’s PR/NCAA record . . . as a high school senior.
My dad was a professor and I don’t think it helped my running much. They’ll run about 15:00 pace and I don’t think Taylor will have much to do with it.
...but she will be yelling out splits and instructions.
In retrospect, each time Hedengren ran by, she must yelled, “Run a 72!”
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