We also will be doing a live watch praty and reaction show starting 5 minutes before the race (so 1:55 pm ET) and then going on for as long as we need to afterwards:
I think you’re optimistic about that last lap. You’re suggesting you’d go through way ahead of pace at 3 laps and finish within 1.5s of your mile PR. I think your last 400 would go 34-38 for a 72.
Well, I asked him the question and appreciate the answer, but I also wonder if he would "only" miss his best by 1.5 or 2 seconds (around 4:09) after holding sub 4:00 pace for so long.
You think that a 4:07.5 runner trails off to 4:13 or so, after holding sub 4:00 pace through about 1200 meters.
I can definitely see that happening in a lot of cases (and worse in a lot of cases).
I'll guess:
If she runs slower than the intended pace but benefits from the pacing, she will set a PB.
If she runs at the intended pace for 1200 meters, she will slow dramatically and NOT set a PB.
Umm, it's not a PB if run in this way. As with the Breaking 2, it's just an illegitimate publicity stunt
Witness history live on June 26th.Stream Breaking4 from Paris, where Faith Kipyegon will dare to become the first woman to break the 4-minute mile barrier. T...
El G had some of the greatest pacers of all time, including Noah Ngeny (who also got to draft all of El G all the way in the latter's mile world record), in his records carry him through 1k-1320y, and no women are capable of pacing Kipyegon even much past 800m, so it's interesting to see what happens here. But since drafting is already done, you're talking about two laps and the wind tunnel approach was already tried in experiments going back to the 1970s, so I don't think it could possibly make that much difference. The shoes, however, could easily be more springy. Recall the illegal Spira shoes that mid-level Kenyan guys used to run a 10k road race in Detroit in mid 26 a decade or so back.
Well, I asked him the question and appreciate the answer, but I also wonder if he would "only" miss his best by 1.5 or 2 seconds (around 4:09) after holding sub 4:00 pace for so long.
You think that a 4:07.5 runner trails off to 4:13 or so, after holding sub 4:00 pace through about 1200 meters.
I can definitely see that happening in a lot of cases (and worse in a lot of cases).
I'll guess:
If she runs slower than the intended pace but benefits from the pacing, she will set a PB.
If she runs at the intended pace for 1200 meters, she will slow dramatically and NOT set a PB.
Umm, it's not a PB if run in this way. As with the Breaking 2, it's just an illegitimate publicity stunt
I think you know exactly what I meant. I'm going to give you that much credit.
Does this make it feel better?
I'll guess: If she runs slower than the intended pace but benefits from the pacing, she will run under 4:07.64. If she runs at the intended pace for 1200 meters, she will slow dramatically and NOT run under 4:07.64.
Two comments. Most rabbits have primarily been pacers, but not all. I don't think the effects of standard pacers are right for a situation with a whole cocoon. As I stated before NASCAR shows that the air flow is affected by those following as well. And since she is much shorter and the supporting crew is taller, the average effects for her will be larger.
Anyone know Roger Bannister's mile PR before he ran 3:59.4 in 1954?
I see that he had a 3:46.0h 1500m from 1952. Is that 4:04.1 equivalent?
We talk about FK having to drop 7 seconds in two years as if it's flatly impossible, so I was wondering what the equivalent drop would have been for Bannister (or someone else who set the WR).