HOLY CRAP WHAT A MEET in Lievin today (2 p.m. ET) -- Ingebrigtsens, Hassan, Barega, Muir, & tons more

we need an emergency podcast tonight

She not even wearing adidas new super spikes. Just basic Avantis from the looks of it

Muir 3.59.58

Facts, whoever burned Gault for putting HOLY CRAP in the title needs to come eat their crow

this is a HOLY CRAPPPPPPPPPPP MEET

Can Grant bring us one more WR????

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Bad news for Shelby Houlihan. Lemlem Hailu -- who ran a world U20 indoor record of 4:01 last year -- just blew the doors off two reining world champs to win in 8:32.55. She looks like the real deal.

Hassan looked a little out of it in her season opener. Either that, or she didn't give Hailu the proper respect. Hassan took the lead with 900 to go, but gave it up very easily and was only in third at the bell. Hailu moved so viciously that the gap was five meters before Hassan knew what hit her. Though maybe it wouldn't have mattered.

A new star is born, Jon.

3:53 for Tsegay, unreal! At first, 3:50.28 flashed and then the result was shown as 3:53 for a Spaniard, so I didn't know what was going on, but ultimately, they got the graphic right.

The new spikes and the usual doping are really producing some absurd performances tonight.

john wilbur wrote:

birdbeard wrote:

Not as good as Selemon and Wale.

Had no idea both of them ran <3:28. Cool.

Fine...I’ll tell you that Jakob has not run “<3:28”.

I don’t think Wale’s 3k is necessarily better than Jakob’s outdoor 1500 PB, and I’m not gonna claim he and Barega are overall better runners than Jakob, but you should admit that 3:31.8 is the 3rd most impressive mid/long distance performance of the meet.

7.32

Secound best time ever. New American record

Grant MF Holloway 7.32

Lievin cements itself as the world's premier indoor event year after year.

Jesus, imagine almost running a world record in your season opener, then still having the 3rd/4th best result of the night.

I can't wait to see what all of these people do in the rest of the season and during outdoor, we're certainly in for an interesting year. There's a good chance we'll see WRs broken in:

1500

3000

5000

10000

Half Marathon

Not to mention the slew of Age/National/Area records that have already happened this season/will happen in the next few months.

East african are done. I predict none uner 8:00 in the 3000 and 4:15 womens 1500 next season. In Tokyo brits will dominate every event from 100 to synchronized swimming.

Fast times

Holy wow with that women's 1500. Gotta have someone like Muir pace even 61-62's instead of a sub-60 (58ish?) & a 67ish to get to 800 in 2:05ish. Can't believe how even the last 700 was without the pacers after basically a ball lap opening 400.

That entire meet was fantastic. Meanwhile the best US distance runners will get together in an undisclosed back yard in a couple of weeks behind a flotrack paywall.

I understand the pandemic. It's the right decision to not travel but this would still more/less be the case if things were normal rn.

John Wesley Harding wrote:

john wilbur wrote:

Had no idea both of them ran <3:28. Cool.

Fine...I’ll tell you that Jakob has not run “<3:28”.

I don’t think Wale’s 3k is necessarily better than Jakob’s outdoor 1500 PB, and I’m not gonna claim he and Barega are overall better runners than Jakob, but you should admit that 3:31.8 is the 3rd most impressive mid/long distance performance of the meet.

Hell no. I'm not about to disconnect from reality. Gettouttahere. It was by far the most impressive performance of the meet. The other ones pale in comparison.

Oh, and you're right, Jakob has not run better than 3:28. If your reading comprehension was up to speed you would realize that's in reference to the other clown poster that said he was not as good as the two Ethiopian lesser athletes....Wale cannot even imagine running under 3:40. gettoutahere

Halviking wrote:

Muir 3.59.58

Runs a great race, indoor PB, sub-4, but beaten by 20 metres. If Houlihan needed any more evidence that her best shot at a medal is the 5000 then this was it. She's in the same position as Muir and GDS if she sticks with the 1500

runderun wrote:

Baba Yaga wrote:

There was a big problem in the laps counting LOL

7:24:98 ???????????????????

HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And there's the challenge for US and European distance runners right there. Four guys comfortably under 7:30. How the hell do you compete with that? Puts hose BTC times from the weekend into stark perspective

You just have to hope that doping testing in Ethiopia can at least be brought up to the miserable level of Kenya. Unlikely, given that Epiopia is even more vast and corrupt than Kenya.

runderun wrote:

Halviking wrote:

Muir 3.59.58

Runs a great race, indoor PB, sub-4, but beaten by 20 metres. If Houlihan needed any more evidence that her best shot at a medal is the 5000 then this was it. She's in the same position as Muir and GDS if she sticks with the 1500

Weird. You do no think things will be drastically different in 6 months? You think Muir or Shelby won't be able to run sub 3:54 in Tokyo? Really? I know the E. Africans tend to run the same throughout the year or get slower, but US/Euros get faster as the year progresses.