Why isnt Jakob running the 10k as well?

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    JohnR

    Member since 05/01/2019.

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    1 year ago 08/17/2022 1:54pm EDT
    re: high school xc coach

    high school xc coach wrote:

    i believe if the olympics or world championships had exact same setup as Euros, he would go for the 10000. Just not worth it for what Euros are. Im sure he still has some 1500 goals left for the year.

    Yep, that's about right. A Euro title is nice, but he has three of them already, and will win several more if healthy. For a runner of Jakob's quality, they are a B level title. But the Olympics and Worlds have the African competition. A win against runners of that level is worth the risk.

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    Anonymous Poster

    1 year ago 08/17/2022 2:09pm EDT
    re: Jakoblover

    Jakoblover wrote:

    Why not 3k steeple? He could start in the marathon too and propably take top10. Why he start on 1500 and 5? Because he train for this, and there he is the best runner.

    Watch his interview after winning the 5000m at Worlds. At the 6:40 mark he clearly says that if the schedule allowed he would run all the events as long as it didn't interfere with his main event.

    He says that if the 10K were tomorrow (the day after winning the 5K), then he would run the 10K.

    When probed, he goes on to claim that if the 3000m steeple was the day after the 10K he would run that as well.

    Now he has the chance to do it and he's not... what gives?

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    21218

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    1 year ago 08/19/2022 6:41am EDT
    re: got walloped

    got walloped wrote:

    He got walloped by more than 5 minutes at the last 10K he jogged, including by mountain runners.

    A lot of ignorance in the post.

    Jakob ran a 10K road race in 2019. He won by a large margin then with the time 27:54. The next year he ran the same road race. He then got beaten by almost 7 minutes. Jakob tried to beat the European road race record (27:10). He was on pace for a long time but hit "the wall". It later turned out that he was sick and he basically had to abort the race.

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