Hey, I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what the 2mile world record is. has anyone ever gone under 8, and if not, when do you think that'll happen?
Hey, I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what the 2mile world record is. has anyone ever gone under 8, and if not, when do you think that'll happen?
Hey, what's up. The record is 7:58 by the late great Daniel Komen. He also holds the 3000m world record at 7:20. I say these two times don't get beat for some time.
"The record is 7:58 by the late great Daniel Komen."
Did Daniel Komen die?
Not the fast one, no.
yeayea wrote:
the late great Daniel Komen..
He's DEAD?!
Just curious...I've never seen teh splits for that race, does anyone know them?
10 seconds on google
Mr. Idiot wrote:
yeayea wrote:the late great Daniel Komen..
He's DEAD?!
no, he's not dead.
Hey, what's up. The record is 7:58 by the late great Daniel Komen. He also holds the 3000m world record at 7:20. I say these two times don't get beat for some time.[/quote]
If Kenenisa Bekele decides for some reason to train for 3K then count on it being broken in 8 months.
in the words of Chaucey(sp): Epovar!!!!!Epovar!!!!!
Sam's Choice wrote:
If Kenenisa Bekele decides for some reason to train for 3K then count on it being broken in 8 months.
I'm afraid you're mistaken.
Daniel Komen ran 3:29.46 for the 1500 and 3:46.38 for the mile. Bob Kennedy recalled that in one workout, he ran the following:
1600- 3:52
1200- 2:51
800- 1:51
400- 52
200- 24
Bekele can definitely NOT run 3:29 (that's up there with Komen and Lagat and Ramzi now, and he isn't that fast) and he could NOT run that track session that Komen did.
As great as he is with 12:37 and 26:17, I think the only one who has the raw speed (i.e., fast enough for 400m in 47 seconds to be comfortable enough at 58 seconds per lap to go there for a while) to touch Komen's record is El Guerrouj.
Sheer speedwise, Gebrselassie is not so different from Bekele, and Geb tried for that record MANY times and never got close.
Bekele ran 7:32 and 7:34 in 2 3K races this year, and while he didn't have competition, he was hurting at the end. To chop 12-14 seconds off is not going to happen.
Agreed. Komen's 3k record is one of the best marks on the men's track and field record books (by "best" I mean seemingly hardest to break) along with MJ's 19.32. El Guerrouj took his best shot and still came up a good 4 seconds short. That 7:20 is unbelievable, and a lot of people underestimate it.
Jinkhow wrote:
no, he's not dead.
I know. Joke alert! Joke alert!
The reason Haile didn't get the 2 mile record is because no one could take him on pace much beyond 1600m+. Also, there were a TON of people in that 8:01 race as well as Nourridine thrown in there for good measure.
They had some lanky @ss (british dude?) helping with pace and he was doing anything but help. It's not just about being able to run fast to be a good pacer, but knowing not to go too fast or too slow from the requested pace.
In contrast, look at the races Komen ran. Small field, home grown pacers from Kenya.
For that brief time in the mid-late 90s, Komen was a man possessed. Lighter than air and so full of confidence that he claimed he actually slowed down at the end and could run even faster!!! (when he ran 7:58)
-Soup
I hate it when people present opinion as fact.
how much faster is bekele than geb over 5k? surely he would beat him by several seconds in a 3k. but the best 3k runner in the world is stephen cherono. anyone who can run 7:53 steeple alone can run close to 7:20 for 3k.
Both Komen's 3k WR and his 2-mile WR are absolutely incredible.
I was fortunate enough to acquire the race footages on DVD from a guy I know who works for the IAAF in England. Komen slashed over 4.5 seconds off the previous 3k WR when he ran it in '96 and ran his 2-mile WR the following year with Bob Kennedy in the race (who ended up establishing the previous American 2-mile record) Simply Amazing.
agreed