The answer is that he is now using the “Super” shoes
30 year old Hagos MF Gebrhiwet runs 12:36 5000m, #2 all time
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ObserverofTrends wrote:
Gebrhiwet 10:42.2 with 800m to go, from the video. 11:41.6 with 400m to go.
So final 800 in 1:54.5 and final 400 in 55.1.
If he can replicate this form he's going to win the OG 5k, never mind Jakob. This is just as good as Cheptegei's WR run.... considering the insane final 800 maybe even better.
Definitely not happenin' at the Olympics.
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Ruxton Towers XC wrote:
I watched the men's 5000m race twice and was surprised that they ran only one second off the record. It never felt like that was the "plan" or that they were even that close. It looked like a good race --- mid-12:40s, etc. --- but not one for the ages or the record books.
I guess running the last 800 in 1:53 really helps to get you under your goal, regardless of what pace you were running before.
But it did worry me because they aren't really doing anything in training that the OG Geb (Haile) or Bekele was doing back in the day. It just shouldn't be that easy, right? They are making a mockery of the times from just a few years ago.
That said, it is sort of reassuring that everyone in the world is doing the same thing right now:
- not one, not two, but three Scotsmen can run sub-3:48 in the mile
- The second best Norwegian can run 3:29 in the 1500
- +500 Japanese men can break 1:01 in the half marathon
- 95 college guys break 4 minutes in the mile each year
- 80 HS boys can break 9:00 in the 2M
- A college kid, Nico Young has run 1:47, 3:34, sub-13, and sub-27!
- A masters marathoner has run sub-2:05
- A 17 year old Australian boy ran a 3:50 mile? WTH?
- An American ran 3:43 in the mile last year and lost the race
- A random person named Adam Fogg ran 3:49 and he is only the 7th best Brit
- Women can now run 14:00/sub-29/2:11, and on and on and on.
They can't ALL be doping, can they? Is it like a world-wide conspiracy and everyone except the posters on Letsrun are in on it? Everyone is doping except us?
VERY well said. Totally agree on this and think its something a lot of people, especially on here forget. We're seeing very good performances all over.
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brunner wrote:
ObserverofTrends wrote:
Gebrhiwet 10:42.2 with 800m to go, from the video. 11:41.6 with 400m to go.
So final 800 in 1:54.5 and final 400 in 55.1.
If he can replicate this form he's going to win the OG 5k, never mind Jakob. This is just as good as Cheptegei's WR run.... considering the insane final 800 maybe even better.
Definitely not happenin' at the Olympics.
Yeah...
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Hobbyhurdler wrote:
I was impressed by 12:49.04 from Thomas Longosiwa at 30 years and 6 months, 12:53.60 by Bernard Lagat at 36 years and 7 months, and 12:58.99 at Bernard Lagat 38years and 9 months. But THIS... This is simply next level. One of the most, if not THE MOST CONSISTENT 5000m runner in history.
Now he and Kejelcha need to race the Paris 5000m with some purpose.
Jogged some 67s and 68s the entire race instead... disappointing and anticlimactic
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Hobbyhurdler wrote:
I was impressed by 12:49.04 from Thomas Longosiwa at 30 years and 6 months, 12:53.60 by Bernard Lagat at 36 years and 7 months, and 12:58.99 at Bernard Lagat 38years and 9 months. But THIS... This is simply next level. One of the most, if not THE MOST CONSISTENT 5000m runner in history.
Now he and Kejelcha need to race the Paris 5000m with some purpose.
Sigh...
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