Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs 13'02" 5k without track sessions

He means specific track sessions like they do before the track season.
They do track sessions year round, 4 times a week (two days a week).

I know that they are famous for running double double threshold every week, usually the faster ones that get to about 10k speed are on the track and the slower sub threshold effort, could also be on a gravel road or asphalt. The point is that to stay at or under threshold they don't get close to 5k or vo2 max speed, so these sessions aren't 5k specific at all

Track sessions are vastly overrated.

The engine you need to run 13:02 is built through easy runs, treshold pace workouts, long runs.

That is awesome! It will be interesting to see how he does this summer after the peaking track sessions.

The weekly hill session gets a runner puffing pretty hard. A large Volume of Oxygen, like Max.

Good race for Jakob but I put zero stock in the "haven't even started doing speed work" cliche in predicting results later in the season.

The list of runners who have said "haven't started doing speed work" after running what turns out to be a seasons best, or even lifetime best is long.

He’s training in Flag. Too bad Jim Walmsley is in Europe, he could have gone on a training run with JI and done a Rim to Rim to Rim run.

14 seconds off, he's done already, like I predicted. Kid phenoms get 2 or 3 peak years tops

Jim Walmsley is currently in Flagstaff.

I agree with the general sentiment, but when Ingebrigtsen says he hasn’t done any specific sessions I believe him.

Your 2nd paragraph isn’t applicable at all in his case, and 13:02 is light work for an athlete of his caliber anyway.

No.

Man, this place is a treasure trove of bad info.

It could be possible , theoretically, if you are a strength runner and if you had an extremely high lactate threshold pace like 4:30 per mile and were in decent shape. With that being said, that means he would have to be in shape for a 12:3x when he does add in the v02 max.

Jakob may well be a 12:30 guy this season in the right conditions. So a 13:02 off of base training actually makes sense.

Yes

I think you still need something faster where you build up over 4 mmol of lactate, uphill repeats could be enough

That's true, but why not on the track? Or at least a mix between the two

Keep it coming Wigins, we've got a full thread of your bad Jakob takes elsewhere on these boards just waiting for more additions :)

Just one example, from 2017:

You wrote that when his PR was 13:35 :) . He would go on to drop a full 47 seconds.

Doing his 2 sets of 8 x 200m hills once a weeks and the double threshold days twice a week is enough for him with years of background to run 13:02. He will probably get somewhere close to Vo2 max doing the hill work anyway and those hill sessions are enough speed for an early season 5k. I read somewhere they also do strides / sprinting once or twice per week at a pretty hard effort for speed development. He will obviously run faster later in the season but 13:02 for a first race is good. He might improve a maximum of 1 - 1.5 seconds a lap so the more specific sessions are just the icing on the cake.