Hobbs Kessler is in MONSTER shape right now

Also if Nick is in fact retiring, what better way to get number 20 for your last race, on a nationally televised broadcast as opposed to some meet no one will see?

Another question to ask is suppose Hobbs was sick or having a bad day or something, shy would he travel to NYC, suit up, toe the line only to go out in a 59.9 first quarter? Makes no sense whatsoever.

I am telling you folks, I know for a 100% fact that this was not a pacing effort at all, that was no where near the intent.

You can keep hypothesizing or posting, it will not change the purpose of the race at all.

If you are objective and look at all three that shipped from Ann Arbor they looked flat. Its not a knock on anyone or anything. It just was.

Kessler the Pacer wrote:

You would have to be a complete imbecile to think that running 59.9, 59.9, 101.9 & 58.9 was Hobbs Kessler's best effort. He cam do that in his sleep.

What's much more reasonable is that he was pacing his teammate/mentor to a rather significant accomplishment of breaking 4 minutes for the mile for a 20th consecutive year.

Those saying why would they travel to Milrose to do it? The easy answer is that Nick seems to be struggling lately, he probably told Ron it was now or never and frankly I wouldn't be surprised at all if he retired sometime in the very near future.

Well I wish Hobbes would show us what he can run when he’s awake, so you losers can stop having wet dreams about him and posting about him, an 18 year old, running a 3:51 indoor mile. If he had his best day yesterday he would have run 3:55. Which would be amazing. We’ve really been spoiled as fans by some younger phenoms recently, but it’s hilarious that you guys see an 3:57 mile as a high schooler and think a 3:51 is coming in 1-2 years. Snap back to reality kiddos

REALITY CHECK….Who in their right minds thinks Nick F**king Willis, one of history’s ALL-TIME GREATS, would need a still wet-behind- the ears teenager to “help” him do something he’s done countless times? That is a HUGE disrespect to Willis for anyone to think Willis “needed” Kessler’s help. SMH.

Additionally, Warhurst knows not to deny someone else a spot on the starting line of indoor’s most prestigious indoor mile, because you want a pacer in there pacing the 9th place finisher.

My God, wake up…

Willis’s last insta post was thanking Kessler for helping him through the hardest sub-4 he’s ever run, but hey your rant is probably right.

I'm amazed there are people in this post that don't think he was pacing Willis. It was blatantly obvious. What do you dipsticks think... that it was just an accident that he was a step ahead of him during the entirety of the race? Blows my mind that anyone could be dumb enough to even consider any other option.

That doesn't mean he can run 3:51 Or 3:53 or 3:55 but it was what happened.

Unless you have the source I do, all else is drivel.

I can tell you without even a sliver of doubt, that:

That was never ever a piece of a plan.

Ron would never make another unnecessary trip from Michigan to NY, shut down training week, for a glorified TT in a Millrose Field, if you think so, you have no idea who he is.

If you want to say, well thats what they did, New Years Eve? That was a made for video packaged event, that went bad because of CoVid with no real spectators to speak, some notables were there, but not many.

King1218 wrote:

Unless you have the source I do, all else is drivel.

I can tell you without even a sliver of doubt, that:

That was never ever a piece of a plan.

Ron would never make another unnecessary trip from Michigan to NY, shut down training week, for a glorified TT in a Millrose Field, if you think so, you have no idea who he is.

If you want to say, well thats what they did, New Years Eve? That was a made for video packaged event, that went bad because of CoVid with no real spectators to speak, some notables were there, but not many.

Who / what is your source? Prove it.

King1218 wrote:

Unless you have the source I do, all else is drivel.

I can tell you without even a sliver of doubt, that:

That was never ever a piece of a plan.

Ron would never make another unnecessary trip from Michigan to NY, shut down training week, for a glorified TT in a Millrose Field, if you think so, you have no idea who he is.

If you want to say, well thats what they did, New Years Eve? That was a made for video packaged event, that went bad because of CoVid with no real spectators to speak, some notables were there, but not many.

Their source is strava and Instagram combined with other letsrun posters. Must suck to try to be relevant on letsrun.

Just watch Willis’ interview. He says that Hobbs was having an off day and he was able to latch onto him and together pass several people at the end.

His IG post simply thanks him for helping him get through it, which does *not* mean that he was pacing.

If you watch the letsrun interview and then understand the IG post with that context, you understand that Hobbs came to race and that was the best he had on the day.

Sure buddy.....Hobbs Kessler who ran a 3:34 1500M (57.3 average for nearly 4 consecutive 400M), 8 months ago mind you as he is still rapidly developing, went out in 59.9 and that was his "best effort".

As if there wasn't enough going on to show how incredibly glib society has become, we have to watch it bleed over into track & field now. Incredible.

Hobbs talked after the Portland 1500M about how he needed to stay competitive, in what was frankly a much deeper field than this one, and stay with the leaders.

Well at Milrose he let the leaders gap him by a full 3 seconds over the first quarter mile. He wasn't trying to compete, plain and simple. If you think he was you are crazy.

As far as predictions, I think he would have finished between Kerr and the guy in 3rd. 3:52 high.

If anyone is over-rated, it's Ron Warhurst: ZERO (0) NCAA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Kessler the Pacer wrote:

Sure buddy.....Hobbs Kessler who ran a 3:34 1500M (57.3 average for nearly 4 consecutive 400M), 8 months ago mind you as he is still rapidly developing, went out in 59.9 and that was his "best effort".

As if there wasn't enough going on to show how incredibly glib society has become, we have to watch it bleed over into track & field now. Incredible.

Just going by Nick’s interview on this very website, big guy.

Why would Nick need a pacer to dip under four when the race itself was going to be won in well under four minutes?

Exactly....

Ronnie is 78, do you really think he is flying to NYC to watch Kessler set up Willis?

Is even sounds frigging stupid

It was not the plan to scrape just under 4:00 , if you dont believe me, I really no longer give a crap. Think what you want in your uniformed world.

King1218 wrote:

Exactly....

Ronnie is 78, do you really think he is flying to NYC to watch Kessler set up Willis?

Is even sounds frigging stupid

It was not the plan to scrape just under 4:00 , if you dont believe me, I really no longer give a crap. Think what you want in your uniformed world.

I was there the meet.

Hobbs was pacing.

After meet he run track workout fast.

the phenom is back wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1N8FqeTqIc

He's gonna do something special at Millrose

Define "special"