Kincaid MF Woody

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Kinda spooky that he ran within .02 seconds of that time almost exactly a month ago

Great run for Kincaid, kinda surprised me tbh.

Also, as a Morgan McD stan, super hyped for him. WA says it's his best outdoors performance.

I saw this but the American was a bit negligent at the end.

The young Kenyan need more time to gain experience.

Well done Woody Kincaid.

You beat some big fellas today.

Nice way to end your season and carry forward on a high note.

Good to see Morgan McDonald have a solid finish.

Was he wearing his trademark arm sleeves to cover up his allergic reaction rash from pork burritos?

Brilliant run. Continuously underrated by “know it alls” to their own peril. Defending usot 10k champ. Olympian 5/10. WC team 5k. Sub 13. The kid can kick with anyone in the world over that last 200m.

I always thought he was very talented. Let's hope his training goes well for next year.

And Fisher ran 10 sec faster in that race.

I'm still asking myself why I was downvoted at this point.
Not surprising for a thread that has MF in the title.

Not surprised that Kincaid can outkick an 18 year old in a 7:38 race.

Found a clip on Youtube via flotrack that has the last lap ... anyone find a video of the whole race?

WA had a livestream on their YouTube channel, Don 't know if it's geoblocked.

Btw 17 year old Laros (Ned) ran 7.48 in that race.

Downvoting me is the sign of group panic.

Panic from what? (that remain to be seen)

Wouldn't take it personally, you just came across a shade negative about "the negligent American". You're right in that he was kicking himself at the end for not dipping but he got away with it!

McDonald ran great.. coffee club podcast is a highlight of my week so this should have him buzzing for this week's one year anniversary show!

Other amazing run was 17 yo Neil's Laros.. holy cow he looks like the son of Galen Rupp.

Wtf was it with all the slow-mo triple jump replays. Someone has got to tell these guys about that picture in picture stuff that every 10-yo youtuber has these days. It was a 7.5min race, the clear highlight of the meet and they just showed the first and last lap.. the rest was taken up with slow mos of a triple jumper hand signalling their coach. Even the announcer seemed pretty baffled.

That's nutty is there a reason there's more young people running fast outside of Africa? I've seen a lot of sentiment that Africans were only able to run so fast so young because they're doping, but Jakob, Burgin, Laros, and probably some others are throwing down blazing times with no evidence of doping. In the US there's a bunch of HSers going sub-4, 2 as juniors, and Kessler ran 3:34. There's the shoe argument, but Jakob ran 3:30 without them, and only one HSer ran sub-4 in 2021. Birnbaum dropped from 4:23 to 3:59 in a year. Sahlman did 4:04 to 3:56. Those progressions aren't from the shoes.

Yah, some crazy times but a long way to go before they can compare to the east Africans. Laros awesome run puts him 22 with a long list of east Africans ahead:

worldathletics.org

3000 Metres - men - u18 - outdoor

Open link

A lot of the East African guys ahead of Laros were age cheating. Many of them either didn't improve, like #1 Cherkos (pr of 12:54 that year, in 2006), or ran their best within two years of those age 17 performances, indicating that they were probably a few years older at the time and went on to peak between 22 and 27 like most people. I include Selemon Barega, probably Yomif Kejelcha, and definitely Augustine Choge in the category. Go down further and there are some absurd ones, like Deksisa's 1:02 half at 16. Yeah, right!