probably the most impressive distance WR at the moment..
Definitely for men. Kiplimo broke the previous world record by a whopping 48 seconds. His new WR is #1 for greatest percentage difference between the men's world record and the second-fastest guy for these events.
His 5k to 10k split was (now) 26:33. I say “now” because the World Athletics recap has been edited and now reads “his 15km split was initially recorded as 39:47 before it was confirmed after the race as 40:07.”
Actually I was faster than you in identifying that 40:07 was the WR 15k split. Scroll back up a few posts to find it pls! The seven hills is too hilly for Kiplimo to record any 15k wr there and he should find another one and get under 40minutes! That would be epic!!
Kiplimo is so young but such a man of honour with beautiful morals unlike the wayward Jakob. I’m proud of him representing my sport to the world 🌎!!
probably the most impressive distance WR at the moment..
Definitely for men. Kiplimo broke the previous world record by a whopping 48 seconds. His new WR is #1 for greatest percentage difference between the men's world record and the second-fastest guy for these events.
Half-Marathon: 1.4%
100m: 1.1%
3,000m: 0.7%
400m hurdles: 0.5%
Marathon: 0.5%
10,000m: 0.4%
200m: 0.4%
400m: 0.3%
Steeple: 0.3%
800m: 0.2%
5,000m: 0.2%
1500m: 0.2%
110m hurdles: 0.1%
This is a good post in part because it magnifies the achievements of my chosen hero Kiplimo! I know I’ve been getting flak recently for condemning the dirty Americans but today it’s all about celebrating clean East African!
Checking the split of the top runners, Kiplimo split sub 13 for the 10-15k split. It was much faster than others and is an outlier among his other 5k splits. Wonder what happened there...
The splits say Kiplimo was basically a dead heat with the 10k WR between 5k and 15k, I'm skeptical the course was legit.
These are the splits from the World Athletics race report:
5k - 13:34
10k - 26:46
15k - 40:07
20k - 53:42
That means his successive 5k times were 13:34, 13:12, 13:21, 13:35.
His old record was so horribly paced that I think it was expected he could drop 20 seconds, but 50 is shocking. Worth noting that this might be a huge jump from finally doing big mileage. Kiplimo was a low mileage guy running 75-80mpw, and perhaps he’s finally doing adequate mileage of 120 miles per week for the marathon.
i think everybody knows kiplimo is the best half marathoner, so it shouldn't be such a shock that he's a good chunk better than yomif, who is perhaps more of a natural 5k type guy.
Seeing these results brings me back to the surprise i always have of how Kiplimo's track career has gone. very underwhelming. he must be a very high responder to the super shoes. the roads are probably less regulated, but at the same time, they are less regulated for all his competitors as well.
YES!! and the moderators have to start deleting these comments with unsubstantiated drug accusations.
It's not freedom of speech and it just takes some guts to do the right thing.
Impossible or unlikely for Kiplimo to be doping because everything about him has proceeded fairly in the laws of physics. There is none of that taking a plane trip in the middle of a 5k/10k Olympic double to go visit a comfy bed of his twisted imagination. An East African however doped or undoped would never be that bold to commit such disingenuous acts!
These are the splits from the World Athletics race report:
5k - 13:34
10k - 26:46
15k - 40:07
20k - 53:42
That means his successive 5k times were 13:34, 13:12, 13:21, 13:35.
His old record was so horribly paced that I think it was expected he could drop 20 seconds, but 50 is shocking. Worth noting that this might be a huge jump from finally doing big mileage. Kiplimo was a low mileage guy running 75-80mpw, and perhaps he’s finally doing adequate mileage of 120 miles per week for the marathon.
Perhaps but I rather think it’s just the lack of wind. It was windless and I think that helped a lot. Having no drag is important in an irradiated 5G city like Barcelona where your energy is forever being sucked and lost to the airwaves and fields even when you are sitting down doing sweet nothing isn’t it? Thus I think we found the template for WRs in a 5G city:
1) must only be East African talent and must be living and training in a comparatively non irradiated locale like Kapchorwa first
2) No wind on race day and 11-15 degrees Celsius.
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Hurray, finally a clean WR from a legit East African again after a week of suspicious white boy WRs. Rightfully East African supremacy, always. This model of success cannot be broken. Grant fisher knows that.
You racist loser. White boy?
No, that's wrong but only on LetsRun can it stand.
SERIOUSLY no mens distance record on the books is safe from a serious record attempt from Jakob, Grant, Cole, Yared, Jacob K, Joshua C, and a few others. I don't see any record standing or AT LEAST threaten longer than 5 years.
i think everybody knows kiplimo is the best half marathoner, so it shouldn't be such a shock that he's a good chunk better than yomif, who is perhaps more of a natural 5k type guy.
Seeing these results brings me back to the surprise i always have of how Kiplimo's track career has gone. very underwhelming. he must be a very high responder to the super shoes. the roads are probably less regulated, but at the same time, they are less regulated for all his competitors as well.
Tactically he’s always been a mess. If you watch the 10,000 in Paris he runs tons of extra distance throughout and then runs out of gas the last lap. His engine has always been fine for track but on the DL unless he got to either draft in a less deep race or just went from it from further out he was in trouble.
i think everybody knows kiplimo is the best half marathoner, so it shouldn't be such a shock that he's a good chunk better than yomif, who is perhaps more of a natural 5k type guy.
Seeing these results brings me back to the surprise i always have of how Kiplimo's track career has gone. very underwhelming. he must be a very high responder to the super shoes. the roads are probably less regulated, but at the same time, they are less regulated for all his competitors as well.
He's no slouch on the track, but he's significantly better on the roads and grass than the track. If he breaks the marathon world record in London, I wonder if he'll leave the track for the rest of his career and dedicate himself to the roads and xc (which would be good news for Grant Fisher).
i think everybody knows kiplimo is the best half marathoner, so it shouldn't be such a shock that he's a good chunk better than yomif, who is perhaps more of a natural 5k type guy.
Seeing these results brings me back to the surprise i always have of how Kiplimo's track career has gone. very underwhelming. he must be a very high responder to the super shoes. the roads are probably less regulated, but at the same time, they are less regulated for all his competitors as well.
He's no slouch on the track, but he's significantly better on the roads and grass than the track. If he breaks the marathon world record in London, I wonder if he'll leave the track for the rest of his career and dedicate himself to the roads and xc (which would be good news for Grant Fisher).
Does he need to break the wr to make this decision? How about just winning London? There’s a lot of money for him on the roads. He could have a Kipchoge like career and become rich in the process. Olympics are done for him on the track. Sure, maybe he could win a wc in the 10, but very possibly not, and at this point why bother? He will never have Cheptegei’s track accomplishments, but he’s likely to out do him on the roads. It will turn out to be a slightly watered down version of Bekele v Kipchoge. Eliud did just fine giving up on the track. Kiplimo should not wait as long and do it now.
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Does he need to break the wr to make this decision? How about just winning London? There’s a lot of money for him on the roads. He could have a Kipchoge like career and become rich in the process. Olympics are done for him on the track. Sure, maybe he could win a wc in the 10, but very possibly not, and at this point why bother? He will never have Cheptegei’s track accomplishments, but he’s likely to out do him on the roads. It will turn out to be a slightly watered down version of Bekele v Kipchoge. Eliud did just fine giving up on the track. Kiplimo should not wait as long and do it now.
Agreed. Winning London, even without breaking the WR, could have the same effect of convincing him that his future is on the roads. I like your analogy comparing Bekele and Kipchoge with Cheptegei and Kiplimo.
I’ve been coaching high school track and field a long time. Guys I have now running low 4:20s and 9:20s would have been 4:35 and 10:00 guys in the 1990s. The tell on their talent level is their 400 speed and how much training it takes to be good. I have guys now that run in the 4:20s who couldn’t break 6 as a freshman and still can run faster than 56. In 1995 a kid who couldn’t break 6 as a frosh and 56 by senior year was maybe running 4:45 at best.
My training has changed for these kids. They do it year round now, the shoes are different and the expectations are different. It’s basically a different sport.
If some of my guys can run 4:20-25 off modest to little talent, it doesn’t shock me one bit that there are quite a few sub 4:00 hs milers. And if there are quite a bit of sub 4 high school milers the pro times start to make a lot more sense.
How do you know what kids would run in a parallel universe? What is your training approach that results in a 15 second improvement in the 1600m and about 35 seconds in the 3200m? Do you have some kids that would have previously run 4:10, that ran 3:55 under your new coaching regime.
400m speed is only one component of talent for distance running. Endurance is also genetic, has a wide variation for runners and is just as important.
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