Yared still have the honour of being a former WR holder no matter the length of time.
Side note/question: Is this the shortest-lived WR on the men's side? (I know Sifan Hassan lost her 10000 record to Letesenbet Gidey after just 2 days on June 6/8, 2021).
FUN FACTS Three days, shortest held men’s indoor Mile WR 4:18.8 Oscar Hedlund (USA) New York, NY USA February 12, 1913 4:18.2 Abel Kiviat (USA) New York, NY USA February 15, 1913 AND Ingebrigtsen is the first Norwegian to set a Mile world record.
Are you all ready to admit indoor tracks are faster yet?
Remember, this is the offseason, nobody hits their yearly peak for this
Why does the track have to be faster than outdoors to explain Jakob running 3:45.14 in February? His run today is equivalent to 3:28.5 for 1500 which is at least 2.5 seconds off what he’ll do outdoors.
It's less than 1.5 seconds off his ACTUAL mile PR, which he set at his peak, with good pacing, and great hype. And something to proving, having just lost the Olympics. That's not what you do in early February if you want to win in June through August. Not how training works.
And just weeks after several others noone ever heard of, two of whom never broke 3:50 before, all set PRs of 3:48 or faster indoors.
Face it people! You can't vote your way out of it. Banked indoor tracks are cheating. Jakob could more easily run 3:25 indoors than out, by far.
Can we all take a minute to thank Lievin’s race director for not having cheerleaders on the inside of the track compared to when Girma set the 3k world record?
Side note/question: Is this the shortest-lived WR on the men's side? (I know Sifan Hassan lost her 10000 record to Letesenbet Gidey after just 2 days on June 6/8, 2021).
Nah, I think a few distance records went down on within same day or two in the 60s. Probably the mile or 5000 or something when people were still taking chunks off those.
I believe Coe and Ovett swapped the mile record three times in nine days in’81, if this hasn’t been mentioned already.
Honestly he’s scared. He could have raced the best in the world last week at Millrose but instead decided to hold what essentially is a time trial. If he continues to avoid racing like this he’s going to keep getting beat when it really counts like he has been.
Other posters mentioned Snell in the 800m/880y and Landy's 1500/mile, so yes, they often ratify "en route" times in running.
There is nothing unusual about it in road racing where almost every nation's 20km record is set en route to the half marathon record, for example.
Why shouldn't it count?
I wasn't at all suggesting it shouldn't count - I was just looking for other examples, of which there turned out to be a handful. Of course I specified "track" too, as obviously it happens all the time in road racing.
remember when guys would train all year to peak to try and run sub 3:30 in august? Yeah that was like 5 years ago.
This dude just time trialed a 3:45 indoor mile. Let’s truly appreciate that for a moment. 8 seconds ahead of the field. Ridiculous. With comp the whole way, probably 3:43. Are you serious? There is no one better right now. No one.
Won't make up for being totally destroyed by Cole, Kerr, and Yared at the Olympics in 2024. Mile/1500 is a racing distance. Beat real competitors and you are good. Lose badly at the big race and you're a joke. Currently he's a joke at this distance. Still a great 5000 guy, for the same reasons.
However, while I am dubious of Jakob as a mile contender in a real race, I very much want to see Grant Fisher vs. Jakob at 3000 and 5000. They seem similar profiles right now, fitness monsters ripe for big performances. Neither is likely to win a shootout at 1500 vs. Kerr/Hocker/Nuguse, especially without a pacer. But Grant's finish vs. Hocker at Millrose was epic, all should watch.
We probably would have seen 3:44:x if he aimed for the mile time exclusively. He clearly surged to get the 1500 record and jogged it in for the last 100 in ~15.3
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