Yared Nuguse chasing mile WR at BU with Wavelights - Official Discussion Thread

3:47.22

First half too slow.

Its just Newname.

I knew he wasn’t gonna get the record when he stepped on the rail at the beginning.

Told you so...

I don't he would have gotten it regardless, but meet delay and not having him and the pacer on the outside did not help

You should replace Gault

3:47. To slow but not bad for March.

per my OAC sources, they literally warmed up 4 times.

this was over before it started

Too many races on indoor surface can lead to injuries. Dathan and Yared got greedy and are not thinking long term.

Announcer calling it "close". That was nowhere near close!

Kind of insane when a dude runs 3.47.2 on the second day of March and everyone is bummed. No excuses but the scheduling complications don't really help matters when you are trying to run that fast.

No one is buying your bs

It was a cluster….

If you are going to take down Jakob, EVERYTHING must be perfect. This was far from perfect and not totally under Yared’s control.

Nice call man. You should replace the BroJos cause they suck at calling these records.

sounds like a really great effort in a most mediocre of setups.

setups are worth several seconds

Not a bad result especially given the delay, but I don’t think the world record was ever under threat. He was never going to find 1.5 seconds in two weeks.

The meet management is horrible. How did a bunch of guys on the start line have the wrong hip number? Also makes no sense that these guys can keep to the schedule perfectly when they have 10,000 heats of the mile at Terrier/Valentine but struggle to do so at a low key meet like this.

onward to the real meets in summer

good luck

It was freakin' amateur hour. Started an hour late. Too many people in the race for a record attempt.

First he lined up on the inside lane for the start (which would have been ok). Then they moved him out to (n-1)th position from the inside, so he wound up having to jostle people on both sides off the line, and run wide around the entire first turn, and weave through the people coming in from the outside alley.

He needed an absolutely perfect ride, and his shot was gone by the end of the first lap.

Fisher's record attempt was also nearly ruined by lapped runners, but he had a huge cushion. They need to run less people in the race for these record attempts.