3:29.77. 1500 indoor record is incredibly soft, Kejelchas mile converts to 3:30 low anyway. Hard for me to believe that Jakob is slower indoors compared to Kejelcha who didnt even have the new spikes.
This all depends of course on how fit Jakob is in February, but it does seem like he wants to go for the indoor record.
The fastest indoor tracks are ca. 0.5s per 200m slower than the fastest outdoors tracks. Therefore dipping under 3:30 would be incredibly strong and would indicate WR ability outdoors. I say 3:31 and no WR for Jakob.
The fastest indoor tracks are ca. 0.5s per 200m slower than the fastest outdoors tracks. Therefore dipping under 3:30 would be incredibly strong and would indicate WR ability outdoors. I say 3:31 and no WR for Jakob.
So what is Fisher's 5k worth? Jeez. Indoor tracks are no slower than outdoors.
The fastest indoor tracks are ca. 0.5s per 200m slower than the fastest outdoors tracks. Therefore dipping under 3:30 would be incredibly strong and would indicate WR ability outdoors. I say 3:31 and no WR for Jakob.
There are talk he is aiming for the WR which stands att 3:31:18.
Do you think he will get it ?
Do you think there are reasonable chances he runs a sub 3:30 ?
In my case, I predict 3:30:86.
The real question must be if Jakob has been able to train as usual after Gjert stepped back as his trainer late last year.
IF Jakob has been training as before I am quite certain he can break the WR at least running 1 sec faster than last year in Lievin.
Last year´s race was not perfect so with better pacing this year (Sowinski should be the first pacemaker?) and Jakob one level up as usual there should be a good chance for a new WR.
You can check his Instagram, there are few videos of him training indoors with his brother Henrik. He seems to be happy with training and ready for the race.
Also, didn't Gjert step down as his coach just recently, about a week ago?
Seing the development of the new track technologies, I more and more inclined to think that more and more record times will fall in the next few years, starting from the indoor.
The fastest indoor tracks are ca. 0.5s per 200m slower than the fastest outdoors tracks. Therefore dipping under 3:30 would be incredibly strong and would indicate WR ability outdoors. I say 3:31 and no WR for Jakob.
I think Boston´s indoor track is faster than most if not all outdoors tracks.
Kejelcha has never run as fast in the mile outdoors as his indoor WR in Boston. And not near 3:30 in the 1500m as his mile WR equals.
We will see later this year if Fisher, Scott and more can run as fast outdoor in the 5000m as they did last saturday in Boston.
2022 will be Jakob's year of WR attempts. He's got his Olympic gold so he's free to chase WRs. Indoor 1500m first, outdoor 1500m/mile later, 3000m, 5000m. He'll get at least one or two. Given that his brothers peaked and waned starting age 24, Jakob needs to get them this year and next.
Hoping that now Gjert is out of the picture, he can start to up the variance on his training and push to match el G this year. Harder sessions, more hard volume, etc. I'll be disappointed with no sub 3:28 this year lol. That being said, I predict 3:30 low this race.
The fastest indoor tracks are ca. 0.5s per 200m slower than the fastest outdoors tracks. Therefore dipping under 3:30 would be incredibly strong and would indicate WR ability outdoors. I say 3:31 and no WR for Jakob.
So Fisher would have ran like 12:41 outside ?
Imagine you were running 8 min/mile, i don't think the 0.5sec/lap adjustment would be correct because the centripetal forces are so much lower for such a slow speed. So for Fishers slightly slower 5k pace it might not be a full 0.5sec correction. That being said, 0.5sec/lap correction for 1500m seems rather high to me.