Armstronglivs wrote:
As usual, you resort to lies when you don't have an argument. I didn't say what you claim. Here's what I actually said, you ignorant horse's a*se.
"... no 1500m runner enters an 800m race to run it at 1500 pace. And no 5k runner chooses to race a shorter race at the pace of a longer distance - unless they like to lose, and badly."
Obviously you don't understand what that means, which is that a runner who wishes to win doesn't treat a shorter race as though he is running a longer one.
You meanwhile have continued to argue that Cheptegei used the1500 race simply as pacing practice for running a longer distance, which is why his time was relatively unimpressive. So he wasn't trying to win? (He didn't.) You have no idea what his aims were. Has he told you? Unless you are part of his coaching team, you have no idea what his training is either. Whatever it is, he has never been better than Div 2 over the 1500. You are utterly full of sh*t.
So you don't actually understand your own comments, when you say "Cheptegei didn't lose so badly, running 1500m at his 5000m pace.".
What would be "losing badly" - running it at his 10,000m pace? Or maybe marathon pace? But 5000m pace is ok? I wonder why he didn't run it at his 1500m pace - since it was a 1500m event. But that hasn't occurred to you, in your basement.
You just misquoted me again -- distorting my comment. And your conclusion is wrong -- I understand my comment ccompletely. You said he should lose, and badly, by running 1500m at his 5000m pace. I said that that didn't happen. Your prediction didn't come true. That is not all that complicated to understand.
What you don't know, and I do know, is the aim of this race, because Cheptegei told us, in the video of the race, in his own words. This 1500m was just to test his speed. So all this nonsense about wanting to win, or wishing to win, a 1500m, or wanting to lose, and badly, is just ignorance on your part. The goal is to win the Olympics in 5000m/10000m, not a 1500m event in some local no-name meet in April.
What you also don't know, since it is part of modern training, is that one of the important range of paces is 95%-105% of target race pace. Since 3:37 is 96% of pace (time) or 104% of speed, of Cheptegei's 5000m race pace, there is really no mystery, and no need to wonder, why he runs 3:37, and not faster. This is not unlike Lydiard asking to run a Time Trial at 3/4th effort, while saying something wise like "train don't strain", or "finish as if you could run another", or "We train to race , Not race to train."
What you also don't know, since it is a part of modern training, is that training is first INTENSIVE, then EXTENSIVE. This means that running 1500m at a SPECIFIC (104% speed) pace, then some weeks later, a 3000m at a SPECIFIC (103% speed) pace, fits perfectly like a glove, for someone being guided by modern training principles for a 5000m/10000m Olympics in a few months.