Wow!!!! How does this dude lose any championship races? My g-d he’s strong. He laid waste to the record and the best runners of the day. 1500 record is going down this year with proper pacing. He is ready.
Do you think he can even do a legal bench press of his own weight? He is fast, he has endurance, but he is not strong!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what mental illness looks like. 71 year old man posting 12 times, for 35 minutes straight, about a runner he dislikes, and arguing with several strangers online.
Jakob's 10K was good enough to be still with the leaders, and good enough to set a national record.
You keep continuing to make the same mistake, trying to analyze this race as if it were not an unimportant race just added at the last minute that he told us that he didn't even know he could finish.
It's not that your analysis is right or wrong, but it is nonsense to even attempt to analyze a race he didn't train for.
We certainly cannot compare this to a 10000m track event, with lights and pacers, going for the world record. It was a half-marathon, where all the leaders crossed 10K at 27:27.
The 10K is a new event? The American 10K record is jointly from 1985 (Mark Nenow) and 2015 (Bernard Lagat).
Looks like we have reached a repeat modus here. So only to the “new” thing when it comes to road races: What I meant was that because of the shoes, money and focus there’s quite a development in the 5k/10k + the other road races right now. And being with the leaders less than half of a distance isn’t impressing given the context in my view. But you may find it good and promising, whereas I don’t. But changes in mindset and training might of course give changes in performance…
In my view, you are not in the given context. You are analyzing this as if it were a normal important race for Jakob. Jakob told us it was not a normal race, but simply a test:
"I'm looking forward to test myself in the half-marathon for the first time, in Copenhagen."
"Normally this is a distance that would suit my training very well but after a long season on the track working towards the 1500m, it’s exciting to see if I even can reach the finish line!"
He hasn't gotten any faster in the 5k because he hasn't tried to. That 12:48 5000 he did in 2021 was the last time he did a non-championship 5k, because he's been trying to focus strictly on the 1500m while he's still in his prime, even then. You think a guy who broke BOTH of Daniel Komen's records by a large margin couldn't drop below 12:40 in the 5000m? You're tripping.
As for the Half Marathon, he had very little aerobic training beforehand. He ran the 5000m at the Olympics a month earlier and then 3 1500ms and 7:17.55 3000m WR. Does that sound like proper HM Training? He also ran 3:30 1500m less than 48 hours before the race. His body was conditioned for Middle Distance Training.
Before listening to anything Jakob says, what should we predict he would do in a half-marathon, simply by analyzing his season, one month after the Olympics, and two days after a Diamond League final?
One reasonable prediction is that, given Jakob's aggressive mentality, he would want to try to go with the leaders and stick with them for as long as he can. But given the heavy focus on 1500m and 5000m training, and a long season of racing, in races that last at most 13+ minutes, he will not be able to stay with the leaders at race pace for one hour, lacking the specific training and buildup, and not being fresh. Many runners better than Jakob would simply DNF once they lost contact with the leaders.
It's not that I took his suggestion seriously starting from a blank page, but that is a suggestion I would make about any "1500m/5000m" runner who jumps into a half-marathon two days after the Diamond League final -- before he told us anything. His words simply confirm what I already thought before he said it. In normal times, his training is suited for longer distances, but not "after a long season on the track working towards the 1500m".