It feels really weird that you keep using his half marathon performance as some sort of knock against his dominance as a distance runner. It's even weirder how much you exaggerate him pausing after breaking the Norwegian national record in the road 10k(2:45/km pace), he still finished the remaining 11.975km in 35:46(3:13/km). This was an elite field he hung with. Sebastian Sawe is arguably the best marathoner in the world right now
Is there a reason you keep posting this multiple times across multiple message boards while intentionally leaving out some key details. He won the diamond league 1500m less than 36 hours prior, while outkicking Hocker, Ngouse, and Cheriuyot. His time of 3:30:37 was the 17th fastest posted time of the season. Not a slow race by any stretch.
He decided the next morning to run the Copenhagen Half, a race that he neither trained for or tapered for. It's also 16km further than any race he trains for during the indoor or outdoor season. Stick to the main 1500m championships that he failed to win in the final meters if you insist on minimizing how great of a runner he is. Constantly reaching for his Copenhagen Half run shows more about your desperate obsession of Jakob than it does his limitations
Excuses. None of that makes his HM (which he claimed is his "best distance") anything other than the embarrassment it was for him.
What drugs are you on right now? Zero excuses, just giving you honest context because you insist on spewing the same ignorant hate. The Copenhagen Half wasn't an embarrassment, it was Jakob giving it a fun go before taking a couple months off of training.
You took his interview with The Times intentionally out of context. He was speaking to his running physiology and painting a picture for which race was actually his peak potential in the future. He explained that his current focus that he trains the hardest for(1500m) is the event he would perform the worst at. the longer the distance, the better he believes his potential to be. This is not a ludicrous belief or hyperbole. Kipchoge, Kiptum, Kiplimo all got significantly more dominant as they moved up in distance over their careers.
Did Jakob not sign your tshirt at the Prefontaine Classic 8 years ago? Is that your villain origin story?
It feels really weird that you keep using his half marathon performance as some sort of knock against his dominance as a distance runner. It's even weirder how much you exaggerate him pausing after breaking the Norwegian national record in the road 10k(2:45/km pace), he still finished the remaining 11.975km in 35:46(3:13/km). This was an elite field he hung with. Sebastian Sawe is arguably the best marathoner in the world right now
Is there a reason you keep posting this multiple times across multiple message boards while intentionally leaving out some key details. He won the diamond league 1500m less than 36 hours prior, while outkicking Hocker, Ngouse, and Cheriuyot. His time of 3:30:37 was the 17th fastest posted time of the season. Not a slow race by any stretch.
He decided the next morning to run the Copenhagen Half, a race that he neither trained for or tapered for. It's also 16km further than any race he trains for during the indoor or outdoor season. Stick to the main 1500m championships that he failed to win in the final meters if you insist on minimizing how great of a runner he is. Constantly reaching for his Copenhagen Half run shows more about your desperate obsession of Jakob than it does his limitations
Excuses. None of that makes his HM (which he claimed is his "best distance") anything other than the embarrassment it was for him.
He claims it's his best pace, not distance. Happy to clarify that for you.
Excuses. None of that makes his HM (which he claimed is his "best distance") anything other than the embarrassment it was for him.
What drugs are you on right now? Zero excuses, just giving you honest context because you insist on spewing the same ignorant hate. The Copenhagen Half wasn't an embarrassment, it was Jakob giving it a fun go before taking a couple months off of training.
You took his interview with The Times intentionally out of context. He was speaking to his running physiology and painting a picture for which race was actually his peak potential in the future. He explained that his current focus that he trains the hardest for(1500m) is the event he would perform the worst at. the longer the distance, the better he believes his potential to be. This is not a ludicrous belief or hyperbole. Kipchoge, Kiptum, Kiplimo all got significantly more dominant as they moved up in distance over their careers.
Did Jakob not sign your tshirt at the Prefontaine Classic 8 years ago? Is that your villain origin story?
It is ludicrous to think that he could be better at longer distances than he is at the 1500-5k. It is mere hot air.
Whereas you were impressed with the intellectual level of the poster referring to Asserson.
If this is referring to me, I'm hurt. I thought it was a relevant and pithy remark and it also contained the word Asserson, which is always a bonus in my view.
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