Thank you so much for your insightful and lovely support there
your Advice is absolutely wonderful and very realistic
you are 100% right The IAAF have really put up very tough Qualification Standards for all distance Events.. Especially the 10,000m and 10km is Absolutely a Joke.
5000m is going to be my Big Aim so there for I will still get a few Fast 10km Races and Times on Board and also a very Fast 3000m and 1500m Races on Board.
5km is the bets Bet for my Situation
As I don't have any Goal and Desire for the Marathon
I prefer and Enjoy the Speed sessions for 5000m and 10,000m It's Easier also with my Busy Life Style. Marathon Training will be very difficult won't be recovered from those big long runs and work outs also the Mileage.
Thank you Stay Blesssed.
Ya, the 10k does seem unnecessarily low, given how few elite 10k races there are. Hope you can find a race to get 13low or under 13. Good luck.
Dejen has no chance to ever run close to 13 minutes. Dejen is 31 and his best is 14:24. He will be fortunate if he ever breaks 14, but that at least is a realistic goal. He could probably run 13:40 if he trained correctly but that is probably his ceiling.
Based on your times, God gave you your greatest talent for longer distances not the track. It’s unfortunate you have no desire for the marathon because it appears that is the distance God gave you the most talent to run. Maybe God wants you to run the marathon. If you don’t make the 5,000 team, I hope you will give the marathon a try. You never know until you try. The good news is you are young, so you can focus on track for now and then try to make the marathon team in 2028. Good luck to you.
Hello, Thanks heaps for your positive and lovely support you have given me since of this post happened. I also Ran and won a 5km Road Race called (Run Prix) it's a New Road Race that happened in Sep 24th. Ran 14:16.2 for that 5km Road Training is going pretty good and consistency and Commitment also Motivation is there. I also Ran those Race times while working in two Jobs in the Morning I work at a Super-Market as a customer service and Grocery worker. 2nd Job is at a Japanese Restaurant at Night Time as an Assistant Chief ^-^ Next Race Goal is 3000m and State 5000m after that than National 10.000m Track. My goal is to run fast anywhere from 800m 1500m 3000m 5000m and 10km
#No Limit.
Stay Positive and supportive
God Bless you
That is very good running and I hoped to see you at the Noosa Bolt 5k yesterday. It was a deep field and travelling to Queensland is never cheap.
We are pulling for you! You could try and get into a fast indoor 3000m or 5000m in the northern hemisphere as well if you can afford to travel. It was one of these results that bumped up Morgan McDonald's ranking to allow him to go to Worlds this year despite not running many races due to injury (obviously he is a very fast guy as well). I don't know the exact calculations or permutations with regards to the world rankings but hopefully your coach or national federation can advise.
Hi, I'm the Swedish top coach mentioned by someone early in this thread. I'm sorry but out from what you have informed us here nothing is pointing to a 3:35 @ 1500m or 13;10 @ 5000m . But your 1:02 half tells you can probably get your half to a sub 60 half and then a sub 2:05 @ the marathon. You work alot and then you should try my original Dancan system on just 6 sessions per week. You have to do it quite the same as the Japanese marathon star Yuki Kawauchi. You told you have a coach but nothing points to so far that coach can take you to your ambitious goals. Time to test a magic coach who can take you to a sub 60 half and a sub 2:05 marathon on just 6 sessions per week. We can have our own thread here at LRC where I coach you live to run times you today just can dream of. Cheers! - The Swedish Magic Supercoach, Mr Wizard J.S- 🇸🇪🧙♂️🇸🇪🖐🙏
Dejen - love your responses here, I am rooting for you!
Don’t let the haters get you down. I believe in you that you will accomplish greater things than you could have ever imagined yourself doing. GO GET IT DONE!!
Dejen - love your responses here, I am rooting for you!
Don’t let the haters get you down. I believe in you that you will accomplish greater things than you could have ever imagined yourself doing. GO GET IT DONE!!
You are a problem poster if you refuse to tell this guy the truth. He is wasting his time as far as the track, he wouldn’t even be the top 5 on a very good college cross country team. However he can run a nice marathon. He can do that for sure.
Positive supportive and wonderful souls like you are the one that push's the super stars to do wonderful things in this world
please don't mind that Ignorant and Hater from this page
He is very disappointing person but I wish him peace health and pure Joy in Life also success :)
God bless you
Thou shalt not bear false witness. I refuse to lie to make you feel better. You should find something else to do. You are probably a great person. But you will NEVER be great on the track. I am doing you a favor. You are good at very long distances though.
I also believe in you that you will succeed and accomplish ✨️ what you are destined to do in this life 💯
Stay blessed
In all seriousness Dejen, you have great talent to run 1:02, but it is very difficult for someone who cannot come close to a 4 minute mile to be really good at 5000m. Surely you understand this?
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