After recovering from surgery Schweizer has been racing a lot lately and is getting back to the peak shape she had when she ran 14:26 for 5K and 8:25 for 3K.
Except Schweizer had a great opportunity to run a fast 5000m four days ago, and was some 20 seconds slower than that 14:26.
Was this Josh’s most impressive performance of the season?
Huge tailwind. He even said in pre race interview that it would be fast with the tail. Plus it’s downhill. his 3:45 at Pre is much better
FFS it’s not much better you idiot. There’s a net 9m in elevation drop which isn’t much and it’s on the road which is slower than track. I’m sure the tailwind helped a bit. Many great runners have run the 5th avenue mile it’s iconic but Kerr smashed the record. An inform Kerr who had just won the 1500m world championships ran over three seconds slower in the same race in 2023. It’s hard to say but I’d say this performance is slightly more impressive than the 2024 Bowerman mile that Josh ran. Don’t just take my word for it. Total running productions guy seems to think the same. The last 800m was the downhill part of the race but Kerr’s final 800m split of mid 1:43 is still insane. Remember there was a bit of uphill in the first part and his first 800m was 2:01 so very slow. I think that’s more because he was holding back though because he accelerated away from everyone very quickly as soon as 800m had been completed.
Speaking of washed up, it’s time for Andrews to move on from the mile. She’s going backwards. Even the 5K has been subpar lately. Younger than Emma but never as fast and getting slower at 29.
The commentators said the wind had been shifting around a bit but they seemed to confirm they had a tailwind when running. It’s unlikely the wind was directly parallel to them and wind in New York is varied and unpredictable because of the buildings. The wind speeds in the weather forecast can’t be used as a predicted tailwind because in a real running race e.g 100m they use a device that finds the wind speed that is parallel to the runners and ignores the other directions. It’s unlikely the tail wind was completely parallel it might have been coming from a bit of an angle so the real tailwind would be lower than the weather forecast. Also all the buildings and trees and stuff make it impossible to predict that accurately. 100m runners get about 0.1 seconds quicker from 2 m/s tailwind which is the maximum allowed. So if we apply that to the mile then we’d get 1.6 seconds. We can round that up to 2 seconds because they get more benefit from the slower pace and there’s probably some complex physics involved probably veritasium could do a video on it but the general idea is that even with what’s considered a string tailwind the runners would only gain around 2 seconds so Kerr's time is certainly very impressive without a doubt. More impressive than his Bowerman mile in my opinion. Yes I know about the slight net downhill it’s 9m net downhill which isn’t that much but still makes a little difference.
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Thanks. Weird coincidence. You see so many idiots pounding the concrete and tarmac when there’s a lovely nicely mowed large, park right next them. People need to run on grass more.
The commentators said the wind had been shifting around a bit but they seemed to confirm they had a tailwind when running. It’s unlikely the wind was directly parallel to them and wind in New York is varied and unpredictable because of the buildings. The wind speeds in the weather forecast can’t be used as a predicted tailwind because in a real running race e.g 100m they use a device that finds the wind speed that is parallel to the runners and ignores the other directions. It’s unlikely the tail wind was completely parallel it might have been coming from a bit of an angle so the real tailwind would be lower than the weather forecast. Also all the buildings and trees and stuff make it impossible to predict that accurately. 100m runners get about 0.1 seconds quicker from 2 m/s tailwind which is the maximum allowed. So if we apply that to the mile then we’d get 1.6 seconds. We can round that up to 2 seconds because they get more benefit from the slower pace and there’s probably some complex physics involved probably veritasium could do a video on it but the general idea is that even with what’s considered a string tailwind the runners would only gain around 2 seconds so Kerr's time is certainly very impressive without a doubt. More impressive than his Bowerman mile in my opinion. Yes I know about the slight net downhill it’s 9m net downhill which isn’t that much but still makes a little difference.
It was a tailwind I can tell you from being there and even Kerr mentioned it pretty clearly. A "perfect" tailwind? Sure, probably not, but I think you are right with around 2 seconds.
As for the apparent splits, it's worth noting the TV clock was off throughout the race. The actual splits are more like 55+(slight downhill)/1:57(61+ uphill)/2:50(53+ nice downhill)/3:44(54) if you go off of the YouTube time stamps instead.
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6 hours on the bike per session. Yiiikes that sounds awful.
wtf didn't she fracture something? Surprised to see her on the line.
I was surprised too, but she loves training and says she's been running for 2 months. Wouldn't be surprised to see her at the USA 5K Champs before the NYC Marathon and she should be able to do better there, you'd think.
not just a tailwind FFS. they're wearing cheater shoes. their times are 3-4 seconds slower BEFORE the tailwind. why do we do this to the generations of better athletes that came before?