He goes 1:50-1:50 in heats w no more than 5 mins between the end of the first and the start of the 2nd, and comes back 15 mins after the second one to run 1:53. I dont have a good sense of what this means for his 1500m fitness... is this a piece of cake for a guy with a 3:35 SB? Is this unheard of outside of Webb's 2007 workouts? Somewhere in between?
Predictor workouts are tricky from the get-go, but this probably wasn't even intended to be one.
When you consider the fact that he has an Olympic gold medal, not impressive.
Not that crazy? If he’d hit 1:50 or faster on the third one it would’ve indicated he’s in sub-3:30 shape. Clearly he was not able to, so to me that says he’s not necessarily in PR form. It still is impressive, but I could see Engels or Kerr or someone like that completing a similar workout. Centro is definitely in form, but he will need another tactical race to win in Tokyo which will not happen.
deeeeep wrote:
He goes 1:50-1:50 in heats w no more than 5 mins between the end of the first and the start of the 2nd, and comes back 15 mins after the second one to run 1:53. I dont have a good sense of what this means for his 1500m fitness... is this a piece of cake for a guy with a 3:35 SB? Is this unheard of outside of Webb's 2007 workouts? Somewhere in between?
1) Wasn't 5mins and 15mins between, was: 1:50.33 (8:22) 1:49.72 (6:22) 1:53.92
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPr4yGQFjwM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link2) back in 2016 with Salazar he ran: 1:47 race (1200) 1:53 (1200) 1:49 (1200) 1:47.
https://www.highperformancewest.com/workout-of-the-day/2018/4/23Make of this information, what you will...
Cringy AlSal nonsense.
Remember when Mary Cain was having awful races but supposedly had great "workouts"?
This isn't looking good for Centro.
If he was fit he would have gone for a 1:46 win in the 800 or run the 1500 with Kerr. Instead he protects his ego with this jokey exhibition. Sad!
Last time I check 149.72 is not 150 . It’s 149 . Stop rounding up so 2002 !
Ânyway, good workout for sure . Maybe in 330 shape ?!
What matters is what he felt about the workout.
It has a dual purpose.
It's a workout but it gives you the same feeling of going through the race process to stay sharp for that.
You have to get to the meet. Have a scheduled start time. Go through the starters commands and go at the gun with the field.
And there's the fact that the others are actually racing that gives a feeling you can't get in practice.
The 1:53 at the end shows he was gassed a bit but that's still 3:31/3:32 1500m pace.
1:53 is 3:46 mile pace... AR shape
Film Rep wrote:
When you consider the fact that he has an Olympic gold medal, not impressive.
Shaq has an Olympic gold medal. Would you be unimpressed if Shaq ran the same workout?
Based on what rojo says, all this workout indicates is that these 800s would have only been at 2:00 pace without super shoes and that Hobbs Kessler isn't as impressive as Jim Ryun.
Remember when al sal coached a male and a female to the world record in the indoor mile?
Every workout is a predictor workout.
1x 800 1:50 = 3:40 1500
2x 800 1:51.5 w zero rest = 3:26 1500
Centro is limited by his speed
He's in 3:31 shape
His best event right now is 2000m
Wow, a lot of negative nellies in this thread. Or a lot of @ssholes who have nothing better to do than shiittalk for no reason. He ran 3 800s, averaging way faster than his 1500 pace with little rest. I don't think this workout is going to predict anything, it was just a good hard session, no need to overthink things.
3:29.+ fitness
by your logic wrote:
Film Rep wrote:
When you consider the fact that he has an Olympic gold medal, not impressive.
Shaq has an Olympic gold medal. Would you be unimpressed if Shaq ran the same workout?
An Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters.
Shaq doesn’t have a Track gold medal. 🙄
Film Rep wrote:
by your logic wrote:
Shaq has an Olympic gold medal. Would you be unimpressed if Shaq ran the same workout?
An Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters.
Shaq doesn’t have a Track gold medal. 🙄
Harri Larva has an Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters. Would you not have been amazed if Harri Larva ran the same workout yesterday?
by your logic wrote:
Film Rep wrote:
An Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters.
Shaq doesn’t have a Track gold medal. 🙄
Harri Larva has an Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters. Would you not have been amazed if Harri Larva ran the same workout yesterday?
Harri Larva has been dead for over 40 years. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harri_LarvaHe did a similar workout in I think 2016. He ran an 800 in 1:49 and was angry with the result. Then went and ran a post race workout of 2 x 800 in 1:50 and 1:48 with full recovery. I remember his last 800 was 1 second faster than his actual race, but I'm estimating on the actual times because it's been years since I read about it.
Also in 2016 he ran 6 x 400 all in 48-50 with 5 min rest.
Film Rep wrote:
by your logic wrote:
Harri Larva has an Olympic gold medal in the 1500 meters. Would you not have been amazed if Harri Larva ran the same workout yesterday?
Harri Larva has been dead for over 40 years. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harri_Larva
So you would have been amazed if he had run the same workout at Centro yesterday, no?
You keep moving the goalposts. First it was "it's not impressive because he has an Olympic gold medal," not it's "It's not impressive because he has an Olympic gold medal in is still alive."
So, tough guy, would it not be impressive if Peter Rono had run that workout yesterday? (Go ahead and move the goalposts again).