MO FARAH IS RETURNING!! Going after the One Hour World Record!

jHwo wrote:

AlphaFlys, Next%s, or Spikes???

lol if someone wore spikes for a 1hr race at 4:30 pace it would be the last race they ever run

It’s not a quarter mile extra. It’s like 200m. Plenty of people could jog another 200 in 45s-55 or so even after a PR effort. For an elite that’s more like 35-40. Definitelty Kamworor could have cruised another 200m a bit slower.

Exactly what I was thinking. I could see some no name attempting this, but Mo is better than a rarely attempted record. Several guys could beat this with a cool down 200M after a 1/2 marathon.

However, I guess he’s trying to stay relevant and the media will eat up a “one hour world record” much more than attempting the half world record and missing it by a minute.

It's all about the dollars/euros/pounds whatever. The great unwashed British public will lap it up and Sir Mo will continue to be their hero.

So my good ol' US friends, give them a break as they have don't have much going for them at the moment. Same goes with Mo, give the poor bugger a break, you do know who's he's married to don't you?

Anyway, you ain't got anyone who can break it.

Does anyone care if he gets it? wrote:

You're right there's a difference between track and road. The track is faster, and that's why the track records are significantly faster than the road records at 5000 vs 5k and 10000 vs 10k.

Whoa there buddy, Mr. 19 Year Old Kipruto ran a 26:24 road. Granted, he had the Next%s, and organizers might have incentive to cut the race a bit short to make records happen, but either way Cheptegei and Kipruto have shown that you can run good times on road with some magic shoes. I don't know if the 12:37's in danger from anyone except Barega (assuming the 12:43 wasn't his only shot), but the 26:17's got some challengers.

Kamworor practically walked that distance celebrating in the 2 minutes after his 58 flat WR

If Farah even gets a half marathon in an hour I would be surprised

Abdi is going to take the record

Except Rhonex was NOT wearing Nikes on that day...Adidas Takumi Sen. Which makes the record all the more impressive.

Mishmash wrote:

Mo Farah will NOT be able to set the one hour record. I think he might have had a chance a couple years ago, but he will be almost 37.5 years old and even with PEDs I do not see it happening. Haile was obviously more talented than Mo and Haile was 34 when he set the current one hour record. That said, Mo is obviously aware that he CANNOT approach the other records and so he knows that he was a one trick pony who is not in the discussion for GOAT because he could not set records. Mo is choosing the weakest one but he still will come up short and be unable to answer the door?.

I believe he will miss that record by 65 metres. Needs to find a downhill track like the Great North Run that he excels at.

actually... wrote:

birdbeard wrote:

It’s not a quarter mile extra. It’s like 200m. Plenty of people could jog another 200 in 45s-55 or so even after a PR effort. For an elite that’s more like 35-40. Definitelty Kamworor could have cruised another 200m a bit slower.

Kamworor practically walked that distance celebrating in the 2 minutes after his 58 flat WR

This is true.

Although I think we have actually crossed the boundary where the road is now faster than than the track for long distance records. Imagine running a marathon with 800 turns in it on the road. It would be an impossibly slow course.

The modern shoes are so good that even a 10km on the road is now likely faster than 10km on the track.

In the old days the shoes were far inferior to spikes which made the difference. These days that's not so true.

And a straight line course will always always be faster than a course with turns. That's basic physics.

I think it will be very, very difficult for Farah to break this record. I'm actually surprised he is going for it. His fastest legal HM is 59:32. Here he will be running alone, round and round a track, for an hour and needs to cross the HM in under 59:30.

So everyone hates Mo because in his career he raced to win, not to break records, and therefore is "slow" and derided for lack of ambition to be great.

He sticks his head above the parapet for a WR that half the posters here think he's incapable of, others put up reasonable stats that say it will be a challenge and is a tougher record to nail than others think, and he still gets no love and is accused of just being a money making machine.

He can do no right can he?!!?

For a runner who has built up to marathons, seen that marathons are just out of reach for his ability, and come back to the track, a 1hr track session seems to me to be the ideal distance for him. I think he can take the record (but it's a tough ask), I'm interested to watch him try, and I respect him for giving it a go.

ex-runner wrote:

The modern shoes are so good that even a 10km on the road is now likely faster than 10km on the track.

In the old days the shoes were far inferior to spikes which made the difference. These days that's not so true. .

I wonder if we'll start seeing road shoes on the track in elite races, or will the new Nike spikes make the difference. Maybe Farah will be using them...

larkimm wrote:

He can do no right can he?!!?

Not anymore. Most people don't like cheats.

nike cheater spikes wrote:

ex-runner wrote:

The modern shoes are so good that even a 10km on the road is now likely faster than 10km on the track.

In the old days the shoes were far inferior to spikes which made the difference. These days that's not so true. .

I wonder if we'll start seeing road shoes on the track in elite races, or will the new Nike spikes make the difference. Maybe Farah will be using them...

The shoes are designed for running on the hard road surfaces so I don't see them being useful on the soft track surface.

ex-runner wrote:

nike cheater spikes wrote:

I wonder if we'll start seeing road shoes on the track in elite races, or will the new Nike spikes make the difference. Maybe Farah will be using them...

The shoes are designed for running on the hard road surfaces so I don't see them being useful on the soft track surface.

They are very good on the soft track surface. I believe the NCAA 10k champ wore them.

A number of pros have worn them too. Jorgensen did, or might have had some custom VF with spikes made.

Here’s an article on Clayton Young winning the 10,000 in 2019. End of the article talks about his VFs. Lot of BYU guys wore them that day.

We just can't respect the Lance Armstrong of track and field.

birdbeard wrote:

ex-runner wrote:

The shoes are designed for running on the hard road surfaces so I don't see them being useful on the soft track surface.

They are very good on the soft track surface. I believe the NCAA 10k champ wore them.

A number of pros have worn them too. Jorgensen did, or might have had some custom VF with spikes made.

I still think specially designed spikes will be better on a track than shoes designed for the road.

You can have spikes with the right amount of foam for the surface and the carbon plate. Same technology but tweaked for the track.