What actually happened to Jakob?

A workout, couldn't have bombed like that. That's why no one cared.

LondonLocal wrote:

Surprisingly so much of the conversation was looking at KJ's 10K performance that no one seems to be mentioning Jakob's absolute bomb this weekend [35:05/10K]. Does anyone have any insight as to what actually happened? I read the splits but haven't seen much more coverage of it - was it an injury?

Yep, just a bad race. Happens to the best of us.

kmaclam wrote:

Yep, just a bad race. Happens to the best of us.

I feel like a 13:02/27:54 athlete doesn't run 35:05 on just a 'bad race'. you have a bad race and run 30:30. Either you have a serious injury here or you walked a fair portion.

I know some people have said it was a session but none of the splits up to 7K support that. I also don't understand why he didn't just DNF, instead choosing to come home in 4:42/km?...

At least some Norwegian medias stated that he didn´t finish!

LondonLocal wrote:

kmaclam wrote:

Yep, just a bad race. Happens to the best of us.

I feel like a 13:02/27:54 athlete doesn't run 35:05 on just a 'bad race'. you have a bad race and run 30:30. Either you have a serious injury here or you walked a fair portion.

I know some people have said it was a session but none of the splits up to 7K support that. I also don't understand why he didn't just DNF, instead choosing to come home in 4:42/km?...

They report says he was with the leaders at 7k. Lets call it 20 mins. So he ran the last 3k in 15 mins. That is pretty much jogging.

says he was there to pace his brother but I don't know if that was said before or after the race.

The official results have him DNF with a 6:22 8k and a 4:10 9th km. That sounds like a lot like some type of leg cramp/side stitch where you spend a couple mins trying to work it out, jog back to where everyone is and then bail to get some treatment.

cramister wrote:

A workout, couldn't have bombed like that. That's why no one cared.

[Google Translated]

- It did not work today, Jakob Ingebrigtsen told NRK after the race.

- What happened?

- I do not quite know. It was good in training on Thursday and I felt very good yesterday, but I ran over today.

Father and coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen told NRK that the son was bleeding "violently" nosebleeds before the start.

- Does he often do that?

- No no no.

Jacob Inglebritsen wrote:

[Google Translated]

- It did not work today, Jakob Ingebrigtsen told NRK after the race.

- What happened?

- I do not quite know. It was good in training on Thursday and I felt very good yesterday, but I ran over today.

Father and coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen told NRK that the son was bleeding "violently" nosebleeds before the start.

- Does he often do that?

- No no no.

Thanks for the insight.

COVID ?

It seeks Jakob moved out of the family basement and is living with a girl these days. Jakob is DONE!

Having lived with his girlfriend in the family basement for the past year, Jakob moved out of the family home . . .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2019/09/26/day-team-ingebrigtsen-athletics-first-family-want-redefine-sport/

confabulation wrote:

Talk about making things up. Sheesh.

Are you new here?

i just realized that gjert looks like sean's dad from boy meets world

Dont know if this is old news also here on letsrun but: Father Gjert took Jakob straight to the doctor after the run. Something had to be wrong. And he was right. Jakob had a rhino-infection (the flu) in body. So that explained the bad performance. Nothing serious, some easy days of training and he was back to regular training.

Good news

Jacob Inglebritsen wrote:

cramister wrote:

A workout, couldn't have bombed like that. That's why no one cared.

https://www.aftenbladet.no/sport/i/nAajbd/jakob-ingebrigtsen-matte-bryte-jeg-sprang-meg-overende

[Google Translated]

- It did not work today, Jakob Ingebrigtsen told NRK after the race.

- What happened?

- I do not quite know. It was good in training on Thursday and I felt very good yesterday, but I ran over today.

Father and coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen told NRK that the son was bleeding "violently" nosebleeds before the start.

- Does he often do that?

- No no no.

Really stupid brainless by Gjert to let Jacob start after bleeding violently nosebleeds the same day!