My understanding is that Myers was training with pro's from about the age of 13 with 3:49 miler Jye Edwards and former Indiana NCAA runner Rory Hunter so he isn't new to running with elites. He may have another chance to break Jakob's record as the Australian mile championships are held at the end of March.
Almost beating a world champ reminds of many years ago a 17 year old beating an Olympic Champ when Jim Ryan beat Peter Snell. But a 17 yea old Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a 3:31 1500 which converts to 3:48 mile and Hobbs Kessler ran 3:34 which converts to a 3:50 mile. Metaphorically kids are definitely eating their Wheaties these days. I'm over 60 but I run a ton up to 65 -70 miles a week and I recently ran a 5k and felt good, 22 minutes, but I was crushed by a 9 year old. These little kids are just athletic super heroes these days, LMAO!
22min is good for a 60 year old lady, but slow for a 9 year old. They should not be racing that far of course, but at 25kgs it is very easy for them to run 5km fast.
So the wankers who are mods look after those who snipe others like you but delete any response to your feeble jibes. Obviously they feel they have to look after you because you can't do it for yourself.
Watch the video, Stewy was near the lane line with lane 2 with 80m to go with Cam right on the inside and catching him and then at about 60m to go Stewy cut back right to the left of lane 1 where Cam was and Cam got checked losing 2m. Pretty normal racing stuff and Stewy was ok to do it IMO but if it didnt happen Myers would have been level with Wightman at the finish and challenged Stewy for the win. He would have absolutely got the world record for a 17 year old. Shame. Watch the video.
Yeah he was out on his legs and tried to come through the inside though. He should have come around the outside, might have been 2m faster, don't think he would have won though.
I was there at the track and it really looked like he would have won if he could have gotten through. I agree, should have tried to move wide instead of inside.
I was there at the track, absolutely agree that Cam seemed capable of winning if he could have gotten through. Should have moved wide after rounding the turn imo.
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