They make it too easy. They can't cope with anything that doesn't conform to their adulation for the Norwegian windbag.
2500 posts in 3 months lol. You make it too easy.
"I can only hope that I have the ability to troll the sh!t out of 100s of posters when I'm a 70 year old man like Army. hahaha...can't believe the number of responses you guys give him."
"I can only hope that I have the ability to troll the sh!t out of 100s of posters when I'm a 70 year old man like Army. hahaha...can't believe the number of responses you guys give him."
Why would a slower runner than Jakob beat him in the 5000 if the current world record holder gets embarrassed every time he faces Jakob?
You mean the way Jakob gets embarrassed when he faces Kerr or Hocker or Nuguse or Whiteman? So how many times in the last 3 years has Cheptegei faced Ingebrigtsen over 5k? It doesn't seem to have enabled Ingebrigtsen to run the event any faster in those 3 years. Still a hundred metres slower than Cheptegei over that distance. And how is Ingebrigtsen doing over the 10k? I don't recall him running that at Paris. (His fastest time suggests he would have been lapped.)
The Athens 5k was a great race. Ingebrigtsen would have been buried in that final.
Jakob has beaten Cheptegei every single time they've faced each other. Not much else Jakob can do when Cheptegei would rather run meaningless time trials instead of the global championship finals.
"Kerr has the potential to break the world record in the 5000 because I assumed that someone who has never ran a championship 5000 in his life wasn't trying to run as fast as he could when he set his PB"
So Kerr has just as good a chance as Ingebrigtsen because, like Ingebrigtsen, he never tried to run fast over 5k. Since he has a better finish than Ingebrigtsen he will beat him - again - if they meet.
I guess you're technically right that Kerr hasn't tried to run a fast 5000, considering he's physically unable to when he doesn't crack the top 1000 all time when running an all out effort in a time trial.
"I can only hope that I have the ability to troll the sh!t out of 100s of posters when I'm a 70 year old man like Army. hahaha...can't believe the number of responses you guys give him."
You mean the way Jakob gets embarrassed when he faces Kerr or Hocker or Nuguse or Whiteman? So how many times in the last 3 years has Cheptegei faced Ingebrigtsen over 5k? It doesn't seem to have enabled Ingebrigtsen to run the event any faster in those 3 years. Still a hundred metres slower than Cheptegei over that distance. And how is Ingebrigtsen doing over the 10k? I don't recall him running that at Paris. (His fastest time suggests he would have been lapped.)
The Athens 5k was a great race. Ingebrigtsen would have been buried in that final.
Jakob has beaten Cheptegei every single time they've faced each other. Not much else Jakob can do when Cheptegei would rather run meaningless time trials instead of the global championship finals.
Jakob seems quite keen on "meaningless time trials". But only over the shorter distances.
Cheptegei was pretty good in his last championship final, the 10k in Paris. It was a far more impressive victory than Ingebrigtsen's 5k.
So Kerr has just as good a chance as Ingebrigtsen because, like Ingebrigtsen, he never tried to run fast over 5k. Since he has a better finish than Ingebrigtsen he will beat him - again - if they meet.
I guess you're technically right that Kerr hasn't tried to run a fast 5000, considering he's physically unable to when he doesn't crack the top 1000 all time when running an all out effort in a time trial.
Kerr is probably quite happy just to run a faster HM than Ingebrigtsen, as well as kick his butt over their main distance, the 1500. But I can't wait to see if Ingebrigtsen can get below 13min again for the 5k, since he's only done it once in 3 years.
Jakob has beaten Cheptegei every single time they've faced each other. Not much else Jakob can do when Cheptegei would rather run meaningless time trials instead of the global championship finals.
Jakob seems quite keen on "meaningless time trials". But only over the shorter distances.
Cheptegei was pretty good in his last championship final, the 10k in Paris. It was a far more impressive victory than Ingebrigtsen's 5k.
You're right, it's not impressive to beat Cheptegei in the 5000 considering he finished 9th the last time he ran a global final.
I guess you're technically right that Kerr hasn't tried to run a fast 5000, considering he's physically unable to when he doesn't crack the top 1000 all time when running an all out effort in a time trial.
Kerr is probably quite happy just to run a faster HM than Ingebrigtsen, as well as kick his butt over their main distance, the 1500. But I can't wait to see if Ingebrigtsen can get below 13min again for the 5k, since he's only done it once in 3 years.
Indeed, Kerr chases Jakob while Jakob chases the status of the greatest distance runner of all time. Jakob is lucky he's facing such easy competition in the 5000 like Cheptegei, because if Kerr ran the 5000 he would dominate everyone with his all out effort that doesn't crack the top 1000.
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This is a strange claim. In Paris Jakob ran ~53.4 after a 57s penultimate lap and maybe he could have run faster if he had his competitors right by him. In Athens the penultimate lap was 61.7 and El G ran the last lap ~52,8. Also before the penultimate lap they ran quite slow 63.5 laps whereas in Paris there was 61s laps.
If we compare these performances side by side Jakob would outrun Kipchoge and between him and El G it would be a toss up.
Jakob has good finishing speed. In Budapest he casually ran 52 low last lap in a 3:35 1500m
Bekele had a better sprint than Jakob. If they were in the last lap together then Bekele would win. El G is simply better than Ingebrigtsen all round and his sustained drive is better than Ingebrigtsen's. He would have more at the finish, as he showed in Athens. In 2004 Kipchoge was good enough to beat the best, as he had proven the previous year. If Ingebrigtsen had been in the Athens race it would have been the Paris 1500 all over again - 4th for the Norwegian.
Hej, hej, hej, where are you going? Everyone is better than Jingy? There's no runner in the world who would lose a race from Jakob? Your hatred is endless.😃
I guess you're technically right that Kerr hasn't tried to run a fast 5000, considering he's physically unable to when he doesn't crack the top 1000 all time when running an all out effort in a time trial.
Kerr is probably quite happy just to run a faster HM than Ingebrigtsen, as well as kick his butt over their main distance, the 1500. But I can't wait to see if Ingebrigtsen can get below 13min again for the 5k, since he's only done it once in 3 years.
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