rekrunner wrote:
"inadequate preparation" looks like your strawman.
Whether he follows my advice or not, I am following his statements. Jakob set the expectations before the race, and my expectations did not exceed his.
His quote is clear: the long season focused on 1500m has reduced his expectation for the half-marathon to just being excited to see if he could finish. His training was adequate enough to set a 10K national road record, and to finish in 63 minutes. He never said he expected to do better than that in Copenhagen.
This post really made me laugh -you are obviously trolling, and I get it; being limitless subjective and trolling must be fun, especially as an alternative to a dull objectivity…
The background is this: Jakob has de facto repeatedly claimed that he can break the WR in both the 10k and the HM if everything goes right. Well, he hasn’t said he can do it in 2024, and he hasn’t said he can do it without preparations, but he has alluded to be quite near, since “my training and talent is best suited for HM and then the 10k” (rephrasing). So the question is this: Is it reasonably to view 6 min slower (HM) /1 min 27 sec slower (10k) than Jakob’s self acclaimed capability as simply the expected time loss because of an unfavourable time of the year for the race? -Very hard to do as I see it, but that doesn’t mean that I conclude that the time gap cannot be reduced significantly sometime in the future -I just point out that there seems to be an strong cognitive dissonance between Jakob’s “my over all current training + talent is better the longer the distance” (rephrasing) and his very slow races…
So to your trolling: You change the word “even” with “just” in your rephrasing of what Jakob said before the race, so now Jakob is just being excited to see if he could finish,!
Yes, Jakob clearly was excited to see if he could finish. But that didn’t of course mean that he was excited to see if he could finish a 21k, or even a 21k in some sort of faster tempo than a normal long run. -Jakob regularly runs 20k long runs once a week, and since this is an easy run for him he surely knows he can run this distance faster without having an all out… He doesn’t need a HM race to know that. What Jakob clearly meant was that what he was excited about was if he could even finish if he went for a fast time (possibly the anticipated WR pace). And it wasn’t just if he could finish -Jakob might have been excited if he could win, finish fast, getting valuable experience, etc -a vast field of things.
You keep on saying Jakob was pleased by his 27.27 and 63.13. But we don’t know that; since we can’t see into his mind we must speculate. And the way the race turned out -an hellish experience and very weak times suggest that Jakob must have been chocked. But we don’t know that for sure -Jakob might have learned a lot here (about realism), ot just explained it away through some cognitive dissonance. I just hope the first… But nice trolling!