kmaclam wrote:
Does Kejecha get the loot or is it Edris? OR Gebriwhet?
thanks for the great meet btw!
kmaclam wrote:
Does Kejecha get the loot or is it Edris? OR Gebriwhet?
thanks for the great meet btw!
both indeed. level playing field now.
The 59 split was off of Jager's 4600 split. Geb must have run 55 or so.
Jager just needed a 59 to win that and $10,000. Really surpised how weak he was on the last lap
Zlatan wrote:
maybe the weirdest race I've seen
Agreed. Jager way to the front, Ryan Hill way to the back???? WTF. Nothing made sense about that race . . . and a winning time of 13:14 and Kejelcha can't run a sub 60 last lap in that slow of a race? Jager couldn't hang on?
So freakin weird.
Felix, Campbell-Brown, Schippers, and Thompson in the 200m!!!
Jager in retrospect probably went too hard the first 200.
61.5 or so for him the final lap. So he did pick it up a little, just not enough.
Jager had a 7 second lead with 600 go and still led by more than 5 at the bell.
Leader to leader the last lap was 59.56 for Hagos. Jager was 2.04 back of that. So slower than 61.60. Hago wasn't in the lead at the bell. So I'd guess 61.9 or 62 for Jager as Hagos was in 3rd.
Hago ran 54 low.
Shame, Shame, Shame wrote:
2:43.44 through 1000m, 12:47 pace!!!
Do much math?
2:43 + 2:43 + 2:43 + 2:43 + 2:43 = 13:35
Can we take one huge step back real quick?
Besides how disappointing it was that Jager just blew it big time.
In that field, which was as loaded as any field you could possibly assemble there were three Americans in the top 6 and 4 in the top 9.
4 years ago we'd never have imagined that. Unbelievable stuff.
Tanui, Koech, Jeilan, Soi, Merga, Longosiwa, Edris These are the names that every American in that race (besides Mead's DNF) just beat.
I don't think that Gwet ran 59.x. I assume that was leader to leader--from when Jager hit the bell lap to Gwet's finish. That was a pansy way to run. Jogging with the pack and then hammering one lap. It's all about the cash, I guess. This could not be any more boring, yet another circuit 5000m with no one going with the pacers--okay, Jager went with them but the pacers were terrible and 12 seconds off their 3k goal.
Seems like the hot first k really took it out of him. As an aside, does it seem like women's races have consistently been more exciting than the men's recently?
Thompson out dips Thompson for the win, Schipper has the diamond league title though, 21.85 to 21.86, Schippers hasn't had the closing speed this year, Felix 22.02
wow ET
Walsh has one the diamond league title with a 22.20 NR to close of a great season for himself
Those women hug themselves after the race like each has a STD--very distant, fake hugs. I like a full female embrace.
2q5 wrote:
Seems like the hot first k really took it out of him. As an aside, does it seem like women's races have consistently been more exciting than the men's recently?
Not to say the women's races haven't been exciting lately (they certainly have), but how was that race not exciting to you? That was great.
rojo wrote:
Jager had a 7 second lead with 600 go and still led by more than 5 at the bell.
Leader to leader the last lap was 59.56 for Hagos. Jager was 2.04 back of that. So slower than 61.60. Hago wasn't in the lead at the bell. So I'd guess 61.9 or 62 for Jager as Hagos was in 3rd.
Hago ran 54 low.
Not slower than 61.60; exactly 61.60. Jager led at the bell, so when the winner finished it had been 59.56 since then. Jager came in 2.04 seconds later. That information all came directly from your post.
Kendricks leading right now, bar at 5.84, Kendricks the only one clear so far, Lavillenie missed the bar on his first attmept
Tom MF Walsh