Wild the announcers didn’t talk about the world’s standard . They barely hit it with a good last lap and it wasn’t mentioned at any point. Honestly felt low quality all around. Surely they can find someone better to call races
They mentioned world standard pace continually during the race.
Yes, genetics. Klecker is a plodder, one of the best plodders the US has ever produced, but a plodder nonetheless.
Plodder who just set a 16-second PR.
Setting a very high bar, but it’s the bar in terms of global competition. Klecker will never beat the likes of Kiplimo. I guess it’s an honor to even consider that he might, but that’s the curse of being very good, but not great.
Yeah, because I can't think of a single athlete that PB'd at 10k at age 30 or later...
If you were smarter you would know that they move up because they have hit a ceiling . So it is quite rare. Our best athletes peak on the track in their 20s.
Not interested in getting in a debate with another Letsrun anon poster. It's pretty widely recognized that speed goes before endurance does though. You can continue to succeed at longer distances even when you lose the ability to run a world-class 1500m for example. I do not think Klecker is "done" at 10k as a *27-year old*.
Jeff Merrill with the observation that it's pretty cool to see a train of nine women running 30:40 pace on US soil (who knows if they'll make it, obvs).
Jeff Merrill with the observation that it's pretty cool to see a train of nine women running 30:40 pace on US soil (who knows if they'll make it, obvs).
Setting a very high bar, but it’s the bar in terms of global competition. Klecker will never beat the likes of Kiplimo. I guess it’s an honor to even consider that he might, but that’s the curse of being very good, but not great.
Let’s be perfectly honest - you are talking about beating Kiplimo who ran 26:30 with a large neg split and is the best HM guy ever. You have to be special to do that (annd outfox him tactically) and Joe is dang good but that feels like an unfair fight in his second best event.
Jeff Merrill with the observation that it's pretty cool to see a train of nine women running 30:40 pace on US soil (who knows if they'll make it, obvs).
Well, the leaders are falling way off. Dathan yelling at them to pick it up. If Monson wants the AR, she's gonna need to neg-split, without any help.
Jeff Merrill with the observation that it's pretty cool to see a train of nine women running 30:40 pace on US soil (who knows if they'll make it, obvs).
Grant not sweating at all - he's a good 5 seconds better at 5k and >15 seconds at 10k. Will run away from them at USAs as long as he doesn't leave it to a last 400.
Grant not sweating at all - he's a good 5 seconds better at 5k and >15 seconds at 10k. Will run away from them at USAs as long as he doesn't leave it to a last 400.
Grant not sweating at all - he's a good 5 seconds better at 5k and >15 seconds at 10k. Will run away from them at USAs as long as he doesn't leave it to a last 400.
Just like when *checks notes
Klecker beat him to the line
Grant has plenty to worry about as far as winning. He needs to gap Woody (and Klecker in some instances too) to beat him and nobody besides him is gonna make it fast unless Jerry/Bowerman sacrifice someone to pace like last year.
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Ok, sort of uneventful, but Klecker has a ceiling, and we all see it. I’m going to get a lot of downvotes, but just have to call it. Woody, much more intriguing. Kiplimo, Cheptegei, Barega, not sweating this race. That’s for sure.
Their ceiling is low 27. Later this year Joe will be 27 and Woody will be 31. This is it folks.
Last year people said Klecker was done and he'd never break 13, he broke 13 this year and ran slightly slower than Fisher did indoors. He's still on a good path.