7:17.55! Jakob Ingebrigtsen DESTROYS 3000m WR

He could do these things he doesn’t do now -some longer long runs, and longer tempos, and even adjusting his interval training a little… Can he do this with a balance /focus also on the 1500m..? I don’t know, but Mo Farah ran 3.28 twice, as a superb 10000m runner….

Yes. You do have a lot of bull.

"Tailoring" track schedules isn't altering the core principles of his method and it isn't what is meant by "event specificity" here. Lydiard's method was focussed on the athlete not the event.

"A few people here" means nothing in the sport. A 10k record that is weak by international standards. He ended up running the HM slower than the women's wr.

Those who understand the sport do.

Pre-race he said it is his "best" event. That means it has to be compared with what he has shown over the shorter distances.

So you show again how obsessed you are with another poster. This isn't a place designed to suit those like you. It isn't an echo chamber. It is a public forum.

What we do know is that he has shown he is wrong when he claims he gets better as the events get longer. He isn't a "HM man" by any definition.

That is what the excuse-makers here will not acknowledge.

Yes. We all should have but reality isn't part of this place.

What else can "event specificity" possibly mean? What we are talking about here is that no one is going to run a world-leading half-marathon off of a season of 1500m training and racing. They need to train for and peak for the half-marathon distance and time. When you train to race between 3.5 and 13 minutes, you might be able to race for 30 minutes, and you might not be able to race for an hour. Among those familiar with training, we've known that since Lydiard in the '60s and earlier.

Of course, Lydiard ultimately focused on the important races for his athletes, and geared everything about their training towards that. The later phases of Lydiard's training are undebatably event specific, as he gets the athletes to peak for racing.

Don't you know anyone who can explain to you how training works?

I guess we should put you in the front of the few who mean nothing in the sport.

Weak? The American record is 27:48 (excluding Mark Nenow's ineligible 27:23). A 27:27 still puts him in the top-200 performance all-time. New Zealand's is 27:28 by both twins. 27:27 is not bad for a non-African. The fastest non-African on the road is Jimmy Gressier from France with a 27:07. Under the circumstances, 27:27 is not all that bad, especially considering the lack of specific training for this race.

When we look at small numbers like 1.5 and 3 and 5, "curiousdude" told me that 10 was close enough to 5. Jakob ran well for 10. 21.1 is not all that close to these small numbers. It's unsurprising that an athlete training and racing 1500m all season cannot maintain race speeds for 1 hour. Even Jakob knew this, as he warned us that he might not be able to finish.

He also disclaimed that before the race, due to a long season focused on training and racing 1500m, when he said he would be excited to see if he could even finish this first test at the longer distance.

This is his level, curiousdude. He shows it in THOUSANDS of posts.

Name me any running related thread in which he has posted, name me a site number in the thread in which he has had a few posts, and I'm pretty sure I can show you a lot of childish behaviour of him.

Just like you knew he would never break the 3000m world record? Sure.

It might be. After a marathon training block I couldn't get within 5 seconds of my 800m PB. Specificity.

You have a strange fixation in claiming other people are obsessed with you. You should look into that with a therapist.

He may be most suited for the HM. I don't think he is but until he trains for it and gets into a well-paced race we will not know for sure.

"Childish behaviour" is responding to your unending personal attacks of another poster with the contempt they deserve. You offer nothing more.