Well I will say this - the meet won't be paying him anything for that effort.
I mean he was the second pacer so they were hoping for something like 2.19.5 at 1000m and there is always some wiggle room with that (like even if he was 2.20.5 they would be fine with it).
But how can you be the second pacer and get the doors blown off you by the first pacer?! He can't even run a 1.51.6? Even worse was that he managed to separate the main field from the pacing by simply getting in the way. Been a long time since I've seen that in a meet of Zurichs calibre.
Clearly they can pay for Munguti in this 5k, so it’s kinda crazy they couldn’t pay for another Kenyan to do a half-decent job as second pacer.
Well I will say this - the meet won't be paying him anything for that effort.
I mean he was the second pacer so they were hoping for something like 2.19.5 at 1000m and there is always some wiggle room with that (like even if he was 2.20.5 they would be fine with it).
But how can you be the second pacer and get the doors blown off you by the first pacer?! He can't even run a 1.51.6? Even worse was that he managed to separate the main field from the pacing by simply getting in the way. Been a long time since I've seen that in a meet of Zurichs calibre.
Clearly they can pay for Munguti in this 5k, so it’s kinda crazy they couldn’t pay for another Kenyan to do a half-decent job as second pacer.
I mean they could have because this really should be a very manageable for him.
Kejelcha is in such monster shape. He ran a terrible tactical race in Budapest not to medal. Not saying he could have won necessarily, but he had the fitness to medal.
Also funny for Kejelcha could raise his pace and "make it hurt" from 2000m out in this race that will probably end up being a 12.45/6 race - yet he couldn't do the same in Budapest in a race where they went through 3000m almost 30 seconds slower.
Kejelcha is in such monster shape. He ran a terrible tactical race in Budapest not to medal. Not saying he could have won necessarily, but he had the fitness to medal.