GUDAF MF TSEGAY

That was an insane run and an insane meet. Winter is suddenly not looking so bleak.

Quite surreal splits slowing down to a 34s lap just to pick it up again to sub30 pace. First woman sub3:50 outdoors with pacing lights? After all she would really deserve it, always goes out hard, but more often than not was overtaken by the fast finishers in the past. Bronze at Doha 2019 already was a nice breakthrough, would be great if she can do even better this year.

That announcer should absolutely retire.

He has so many ill BIAS based positions on his own sh!tty career and takes it out. He says the whole time Guday and the pace makers are basically dumb @sses and yet Guday keeps getting faster each split.

Hello announcer the game has changed and it changed when Hassan ran 3:50 and closed the 10,000m in sub-4. Wake TFU!!

soooo, she definitely didn't get faster each 200m (she ran a 29 first lap, then slowed after 600m to a 34s lap before picking it back up to 30's). and the announcers were correct, women going out in 58.9 for anything longer than 800-1k is a suicidal pace that no one can realistically hang on to. the women's mile WR is 63s laps, so to go out in 59 through 400, and 1:31 at 600 is an insane pace to try and hold for another 900m. announcers do get annoying sometimes in obsessing over splits, but i guarantee you if you go back and watch any DL women's 1500/mile, you'll never see them go out sub 60.

Been watching Gudaf for years, she always looked smooth, but I did not see this coming.

GUDAF MF TSEGAY wrote:

And not even in Dragonflys, just plain Adidas Avanti.

Avanti have some boost TPU though they've never been anything magical for me

But don't forget newest tracks today are crazy fast. Like second-per-lap faster or more than previous generations. I have no idea what that one uses but the one in Doha last year was the same cutting-edge super-track they are going to use in Japan this summer, Mondo WS, it's two or three generations beyond the Rio super-track.

You can tell all the runners were getting some high energy return, bouncy af.

I guess it's "fair" in that ALL the competitors get the same advantage but then of course you can't fairly compare it to performances from previous years.

TrackCoach wrote:

Been watching Gudaf for years, she always looked smooth, but I did not see this coming.

That's because you don't have access to what her doctors know.

Armstronglivs wrote:

TrackCoach wrote:

Been watching Gudaf for years, she always looked smooth, but I did not see this coming.

That's because you don't have access to what her doctors know.

Managed by Pineda, along with Kipruto, Kisorio, Mikhou, Dibaba, Souileman, and Fsiha. Seeing a trend?

notexactlyright wrote:

soooo, she definitely didn't get faster each 200m (she ran a 29 first lap, then slowed after 600m to a 34s lap before picking it back up to 30's). and the announcers were correct, women going out in 58.9 for anything longer than 800-1k is a suicidal pace that no one can realistically hang on to. the women's mile WR is 63s laps, so to go out in 59 through 400, and 1:31 at 600 is an insane pace to try and hold for another 900m. announcers do get annoying sometimes in obsessing over splits, but i guarantee you if you go back and watch any DL women's 1500/mile, you'll never see them go out sub 60.

Why do people these days start sentences with "so" so frequently?

Doped! Are you people - well most of you - stupid! The commentators were right. It was a suicidal pace and she should blown up towards the end, and you simply don't beat a top 1500m runner like Laura Muir my six seconds. Will, you please get real.

Thereandback wrote:

Doped! Are you people - well most of you - stupid! The commentators were right. It was a suicidal pace and she should blown up towards the end, and you simply don't beat a top 1500m runner like Laura Muir my six seconds. Will, you please get real.

Well yes but that doesn't mean she's not on the sauce.

Yikes! wrote:

Thereandback wrote:

Doped! Are you people - well most of you - stupid! The commentators were right. It was a suicidal pace and she should blown up towards the end, and you simply don't beat a top 1500m runner like Laura Muir my six seconds. Will, you please get real.

Well yes but that doesn't mean she's not on the sauce.

There isn't a holder of any world record today who isn't, or wasn't.

Thereandback wrote:

Doped! Are you people - well most of you - stupid! The commentators were right. It was a suicidal pace and she should blown up towards the end, and you simply don't beat a top 1500m runner like Laura Muir my six seconds. Will, you please get real.

At this rate she will destroy the outdoor world record set by Dibaba, and before her the doped Chinese. "Are you not entertained?"

Thereandback wrote:

Doped! Are you people - well most of you - stupid! The commentators were right. It was a suicidal pace and she should blown up towards the end, and you simply don't beat a top 1500m runner like Laura Muir my six seconds. Will, you please get real.

Translation- waaaaah! waaaahh! WAAAAHHH!

shoo smoo wrote:

But don't forget newest tracks today are crazy fast. Like second-per-lap faster or more than previous generations. I have no idea what that one uses but the one in Doha last year was the same cutting-edge super-track they are going to use in Japan this summer, Mondo WS, it's two or three generations beyond the Rio super-track.

You can tell all the runners were getting some high energy return, bouncy af.

According to Mondo's website, 'Mondo WS' was being installed as early as 2012, including at Rio. Is indeed the newer 'MondoTrack WS' exactly the same, in spring characteristics, as the earlier versions, going back to 2012? More discussion on the matter is found on this thread:

hr measurement wrote:

shoo smoo wrote:

But don't forget newest tracks today are crazy fast. Like second-per-lap faster or more than previous generations. I have no idea what that one uses but the one in Doha last year was the same cutting-edge super-track they are going to use in Japan this summer, Mondo WS, it's two or three generations beyond the Rio super-track.

You can tell all the runners were getting some high energy return, bouncy af.

According to Mondo's website, 'Mondo WS' was being installed as early as 2012, including at Rio. Is indeed the newer 'MondoTrack WS' exactly the same, in spring characteristics, as the earlier versions, going back to 2012? More discussion on the matter is found on this thread:

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10430303#10430458

Buddy, you’re never supposed to question the BS that posters here pass off as fact.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Yikes! wrote:

Well yes but that doesn't mean she's not on the sauce.

There isn't a holder of any world record today who isn't, or wasn't.

What about Duplantis?

OMG world record