Rudisha's 1:42.12 NEW ALTITUDE WR!!!

Ventolin, in order to update your archive, I give you the right splits for the men races in Kenyan Trials, since in many cases the final results were not correct :

800m

Rudisha : 24"8 - 51"2 (26"4) - 1'16"8 (25"6) - 1'42"1 (25"3). The first lap in 52" is not true, in any case this is a negative split, also if for 0.1 only.

1500m (Silas Kiplagat)

400 : 1'01"6

800 : 2'02"8 (1'01"2)

1100 : 2'46"6 (300m in 43"8)

1200 : 2'59"3 (400m from 800 to 1200 in 56"5)

1500 : 3'37"6 (last lap in 51", last 300m in 38"3)

Asbel Kiprop was about 8 meters behind, his last 300m are 37"9

5000m (official result) :

Isiah Koech Kiplagat 13'09"80

Edwin Soi 13'10"86

Thomas Longosiwa 13'11"11

Vincent Chepkok 13'11"28

Splits :

400 : 1'03"4

800 : 2'07"4 (1'04"0)

1000 : 2'39"8 2'39"8

1200 : 3'11"2 (1'03"8)

1600 : 4'13"6 (1'02"4)

2000 : 5'16" (1'02"4) 2'36"2

2400 : 6'20" (1'04"0)

2800 : 7'23"9 (1'03"9)

3000 : 7'55"8 2'39"8

3200 : 8'27"4 (1'03"5)

3600 : 9'32" (1'04"6)

4000 : 10'37"4 (1'05"4) 2'41"6

4400 : 11'42"6 (1'05"2)

4600 : 12'12"2

4800 : 12'41"6 (59"0)

5000 : 13'09"8 (28"2 / last 400 in 57"6) 2'32"4

And, for Pamela Jelimo (800m Women) :

27"8 - 1'01"3 (33"5) - 1'29"6 (28"3) - 1'58"4 (28"8)

That's a big negative split for Jelimo too.

Is there something about racing the 800m at altitude which makes the negative split a better strategy there?

muslim wrote:

Semitic is not synonymous with Jewish. There are a lot of Semites in Ethiopia (speaking Tigre, Trigrana, Amharic, Ge'ez, and Harari. There are indeed the Beta Israel and Falasha Mura in Ethiopia, who are Jewish (well, it's complicated) but as far as I am aware therre are neither Jews nor semitic speakers in Kenya.[/quote

I'm going to go out on a limb and say El G is muslim just like 99% of Moroccans.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Islam is a religion and is neither a language nor an ethnicity.

renato do you know anything about joseph ebuya ?

Some things are obvious wrote:

muslim wrote:

Semitic is not synonymous with Jewish. There are a lot of Semites in Ethiopia (speaking Tigre, Trigrana, Amharic, Ge'ez, and Harari. There are indeed the Beta Israel and Falasha Mura in Ethiopia, who are Jewish (well, it's complicated) but as far as I am aware therre are neither Jews nor semitic speakers in Kenya.[/quote

I'm going to go out on a limb and say El G is muslim just like 99% of Moroccans.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Islam is a religion and is neither a language nor an ethnicity.

No, although El G speaks Arabic so he would be Semitic. The question was whether Rudisha was Semitic or not. I don't think there are any Semites in Kenya.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

That's a big negative split for Jelimo too.

Is there something about racing the 800m at altitude which makes the negative split a better strategy there?

No. Even splitting or slightly negative is a better strategy at any altitude.

Some things are obvious wrote:

No. Even splitting or slightly negative is a better strategy at any altitude.

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Just asking because both races at the Kenyan trials were won at altitude in a negative split. Would the negative split be a "safer" race strategy for these favorites?

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Some things are obvious wrote:

No. Even splitting or slightly negative is a better strategy at any altitude.

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Just asking because both races at the Kenyan trials were won at altitude in a negative split. Would the negative split be a "safer" race strategy for these favorites?

Sorry, conventional wisdom is that a positive split is the best strategy for 800m.

Blame Canada! Blame Canada! wrote:

He's just as dominant at 800 meters now as Hicham El Guerrouj was at 1500 meters during his day. Why are all these morons on here accusing El G of doping but not Rudisha? Are there that many Kenyans on letsrun?

Rather than the annoying drug talk that this has prompted (and ethnicity stuff, which is just weird), everyone should remember how many golds El G won. Rudisha looks unstoppable, but so did El G...

Rudisha's 1:42.12 NEW ALTITUDE WR!!!

I’m a bit baffled here.

What’s so special about a 1.42.12 800 at altitude?

Since Mexico, I always assumed that in races up to 800mts, running at altitude was a help rather than a hindrance when it came to records.

Way back in 68, Ralph Doubell (Australia) broke the Olympic record at 800, running 1.44.4 at altitude.

I assume Rudisha is a bloody sight faster than Doubell over 800, so his time is hardly a surprise.

the 4th guy Vincent Chepkok ran 13:11.28. Soi's time was 13:10.86. Mostly 5k-results are published wrongly.

ventolin^3 wrote:

ventolin^3 wrote:handicap of 14'11.91 with 24.91 -> (13'47.00/14'11.91)

advantage of (63.56/63.18)

basic = 13'09.8 x above 2 ->

12'51.3 !!!

in a tactical race as well ( although i believe a dnf kenyan took it out hard ) !

i believe most sensible posters woud agree with that number ( the kenyans have been training flat-out for this race & isiah did run 12'53i last year which has to be good few secs faster outdoors )

using same method for keino's 3'34.91 at mexico ( 2250m / 7381' ) whose nearest US city is larami at 7212'

only mile is quoted, but that's close enough to 1500m

factor 1 : (3'59.00/4'08.75)

factor 2 : (57.91/57.31)

with 3'34.91 x above 2 -> basic of

3'28.64 !!!

considering it was tactical race with significant uneveness ( 60 + 55... ) & solo for 2 last laps, that looks close to 3'27-flat

Thank you so much for sharing these split times. I did think the claim of a 52 and a 50 splits for Rudisha was a bit vague and dubious. Nevertheless, 51.2, 50.9 on his own is incredible running.

I hope you don't mind me asking a few questions, as you were clearly there and have first hand knowledge?

1) Are Rudisha's splits official or what you took yourself?

2) Do you happen to know Kiplagat's time at 700m, so I can find his last 800m time?

3) Do you know Kiplagat (or indeed Kiprop's) last 200m split?

Many thanks.

Dean.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Mr. Obvious wrote:

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Just asking because both races at the Kenyan trials were won at altitude in a negative split. Would the negative split be a "safer" race strategy for these favorites?

Sorry, conventional wisdom is that a positive split is the best strategy for 800m.

Conventional wisdom is wrong.

if it looks to good to be true ususally is .

lets look at the two previous w.r holders .

seb coe blood loaded and the next was epo aided.

time will till what the magic cocktail is,

might find out about it in afew decades .

is it new epo variant ,dont think so even previous fellow

never droped this many times.

is it something getting more oxygen to muscles or

dealing with all lactic . time will reveal all

i hope.

jerry123 wrote:

if it looks to good to be true ususally is .

lets look at the two previous w.r holders .

seb coe blood loaded and the next was epo aided.

time will till what the magic cocktail is,

might find out about it in afew decades .

is it new epo variant ,dont think so even previous fellow

never droped this many times.

is it something getting more oxygen to muscles or

dealing with all lactic . time will reveal all

i hope.

Absolutely no evidence Coe doped. Tested regularly out of season from 81.

There is no proof Kipketer doped either, although there are certain alarm bells which made me suspect at the time that he could have been on EPO.

I don't think Rudisha is on anything either. Just a tremendously gifted athlete who has been running fast since his teens.