ric flair woo wrote:
shohohe wrote:
Damn, they both looked like they were just chilling on the home stretch.
Exciting race, lived up to the hype.
Jakob 3:36.02 NR, WJR
Parsons 3:41.97 PB
it's not a world junior record if its 5 seconds slower than what a 19 year old ran last weekend
Technically, it is.
You should feel good about maintaining the LRC tradition of not knowing the official rules.
The official results say Germany.
Anyone catch the splits?
ric flair woo wrote:
shohohe wrote:
Damn, they both looked like they were just chilling on the home stretch.
Exciting race, lived up to the hype.
Jakob 3:36.02 NR, WJR
Parsons 3:41.97 PB
it's not a world junior record if its 5 seconds slower than what a 19 year old ran last weekend
lol it literally is though. Tefera turns "20" this year. Look at the official results.
Jakob = CLEAN dominance. Hugely impressive. Best legit 1500/5000 runner in the world.
Did you watch the race?
It seemed like he knew Jakob was coming and decided to save his kick for a bit later, I.e the last 50-75 meters.
The last thing you want in a championship style race is to make the mistake of kicking too soon.
I just eyeballed it, but it seemed like Jakob ran that last hundred in close to 12 seconds.
ric flair woo wrote:
it's not a world junior record if its 5 seconds slower than what a 19 year old ran last weekend
As mentioned earlier in the thread - age groups are decided by birth year and not by chronological age.
Samuel Tefera is born in 1999 and thus is not a junior.
Somewhere there's a party at Coevett's house.
Bram Som was pacing them around, in addition to the other guy.
ric flair woo wrote:
shohohe wrote:
Damn, they both looked like they were just chilling on the home stretch.
Exciting race, lived up to the hype.
Jakob 3:36.02 NR, WJR
Parsons 3:41.97 PB
it's not a world junior record if its 5 seconds slower than what a 19 year old ran last weekend
Except it is
spade detector wrote:
spade detector wrote:
Certainly Tefera could win, but I don’t think he will be at his best in a race a few days after setting the World Record, and Filip is no slouch as a World Championships bronze medalist.
I think there are several in the field that could potentially win. Something uncommon during indoors, and exciting.
Put another way...going into Birmingham, Kejelcha had just run .01 off the mile WR whereas Tefera had only run a 3:35.57 1500m this year, and yet it was Tefera that came out on top. I could see him having a similar letdown after such a big race just a few days ago.
Well i was wrong about Filip (what the hell?) but was right about Tefera not having his best.
sdfgsdfgsdfgsdfgsdfg wrote:
ric flair woo wrote:
it's not a world junior record if its 5 seconds slower than what a 19 year old ran last weekend
As mentioned earlier in the thread - age groups are decided by birth year and not by chronological age.
Samuel Tefera is born in 1999 and thus is not a junior.
** allegedly born in 1999 and is thus not even allegedly a junior.
exrunner wrote:
Soo if Tefera is on EPO... and Jakob easily passes him for the win... what does that mean??
That without his EPO, Tefera wouldn't even be in the same race as Jakob?
exrunner wrote:
Anyway great run by Jakob.
Really shows just how much easier following a pacemaker for 1450m is as compared to a real race like this was.
Tefera would have used something like 5% less energy following Kejelcha around.
You still think that Jakob will be nowhere near world class in time for Tokyo?
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Re-watching the livestream now.
For anyone geo-blocked:
Parsons settling in last from 100 m in, Jakob behind Filip, but Birgen on Filip's shoulder must be annoying if Filip is pacing Jakob. Tefera the only one going with the pacemakers.
600 in 1:24.high, 800 in 1:54.44.
Jakob in 5th (4th without pacemaker). Goes around Filip and Kibet at 2:20 when he notices they can't close the gap. Still at 2 m gap between Tefera (1st) and Jakob (2nd) with 400 to go. 3:07ish at the bell, Jakob right behind Tefera, 2 m to Filip, which becomes 20 m in no time. Jakob moves to lane 2 with 50 m to go, pulls even with Tefera with 30 m to go, Tefera holds him off for 10 m, then Jakob passes with 15 m to go and wins by 1.5 m.
Hardloper wrote:
Jakob does it!!!
Props to Tefera for actually trying to push the pace. I thought he would be content to sit and kick but he was vulnerable trying to run from the front.
Berega and Tefera look pretty good when they run behind Kejelcha for 97% of the race.
That was an amusing break from a dull February Wednesday.
Does anyone know who the announcers were? They were not bad, but not exciting, either.
So who the hell is Parsons going to affiliate with?? Pretty sure he is supposed to be registered with the IAAF as a German athlete if he is going to compete for them, BUT I am not the expert on this matter.
And, he wasn't even part of the race on this one...huge gap back to him. Germany is welcome to keep him. I like our chances with our crop of 1500 guys over him.
I suppose but it's indoors and it shouldn't be that hard. A 28+ last lap in a moderately fast 1500 is not going to do it. You'd expect more from Tefera, but he doesnt seem to have an elite kick (Manangoi) or extended move (Cheruiyot)
exrunner wrote:
Soo if Tefera is on EPO... and Jakob easily passes him for the win... what does that mean??
Anyway great run by Jakob.
Really shows just how much easier following a pacemaker for 1450m is as compared to a real race like this was.
Tefera would have used something like 5% less energy following Kejelcha around.
Probably training through this meet. He'll likely get back to 3:30 shape this summer....
Rotich the Rotich wrote:
I just eyeballed it, but it seemed like Jakob ran that last hundred in close to 12 seconds.
Lol maybe with a really loose interpretation of the word "close".
My mistake, they hit 1400 in 3:21.7, that’s not remotely close to a 12 second finish.
My point still remains though, I’m sure they were running conservatively even through the final lap.