HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wale runs 7:24:98 in 3000m indoor

deydoodoodohdohdontdeydoo? wrote:

macdaddy OG wrote:

I would be bitter if my country couldn't do crap on the international stage too.

That's because they have to compete against dopers, and it's right to be bitter about that. Obviously, choosing the name of a notorious doper as your handle reveals how much you care.

It is very convenient to assert that my country’s athletes are clean and that athletes from other countries must be dirty. This is pathetic and shows the posters are ignorant people with no class.

600yd/600m man wrote:

2) Indoor technology has significantly improved. I have doubts about the integrity of indoor tracks. I believe indoor track are returning energy to indoor runners.

Don't you believe they were designed to?

I remember training on the Harvard indoor track in Jan/Feb 1988, after maybe 1 race indoor each year at RAF Cosford in the previous 3 years. There was this incredible "boing" feeling at middle distance paces, and after 2-3 sessions I was convinced it was easier to run at speed than on a flat outdoor track. Somebody told me that their engineering department had designed it for optimal energy return at 4 minute mile pace (I was maybe ten seconds off that year). Anyone know the history of it?

By contrast the one down the road at BU was better for 5000 - I remember Richard Nerurkar banging out a great indoor 5000. I think that was an old 11-laps-per mile one at that time?

Or, it might just be that you actually have to do less lateral pushing 'cornering' at speed on a banked track than a flat one, so more of your energy goes forwards. If that's the reason, the level of banking will dictate which event they are tuned for.

Or maybe some people just peak in Jan/Feb, and that's what they happen to be on at that time.

deydoodoodohdohdontdeydoo? wrote:

macdaddy OG wrote:

I would be bitter if my country couldn't do crap on the international stage too.

That's because they have to compete against dopers

As did the runners who went against Paula Radcliffe - who was protected by the UK despite overwhelming evidence of cheating.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Fact is, there's really no way to compare it even to other indoor times, except on that track on that day.

So, throw away any performance list ever done.

What a laughable statement from you.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

bulbasaur wrote:

The last sub 7:25 performance was 1999. Wale wasn’t born till 2000

Ethiopian birth registrations are as effective as their drug testing.

My point was more about just how long it's been since we've seen a performance on this level. In reality a 7:24 3k is insane no matter who it is

Any testing going on in Ethiopia?

Amazing