He won a race against multiple world finalists, including a world medalist who dipped under the 3000 WR within the last 14 days. He raced to win and he won. What exactly did you expect from him?
This is the best possible scenario. Guy runs fast, just fast enough so that the desperate americans here are filled with high hopes. But not fast enough to ever actually deliver. This maximizes the amount of entertainment this board will provide in the next year or two. BRAVO VINCE.
This thread is ridiculous, I think almost everyone knows that.
Nuguse looked clearly superior to the WC bronze medalist who just ran 7:24. After getting jostled in the pack at the start he surged around everyone to get behind Sowinski (the only one to do so) who misjudged and split 54.8 through 400. Katir on the other hand paced himself perfectly, worked his way back to Nuguse and drafted before making his move. Nuguse recalibrated from the shoddy pacing and turned his attention to getting the win, and when he kicked it wasn’t in doubt, putting .63” on Katir in ~50m. His time was faster than any other American has ever run indoors. The altitude conversion is insignificant only in the way that a second or two is insignificant in a 1500.
what should the pace have been? 54 s is fast for the first 400m. I'm surprised, since Sowinski usually has solid pacing, Maybe he thought pacing "at altitude" would be a lot harder?
Edit: Soggy on the other post said pacing was supposed to be: 56/1.52/2.20
so, they were 2 s too fast the first 400m, I'm not sure what the other splits were.
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This thread is ridiculous, I think almost everyone knows that.
Nuguse looked clearly superior to the WC bronze medalist who just ran 7:24. After getting jostled in the pack at the start he surged around everyone to get behind Sowinski (the only one to do so) who misjudged and split 54.8 through 400. Katir on the other hand paced himself perfectly, worked his way back to Nuguse and drafted before making his move. Nuguse recalibrated from the shoddy pacing and turned his attention to getting the win, and when he kicked it wasn’t in doubt, putting .63” on Katir in ~50m. His time was faster than any other American has ever run indoors. The altitude conversion is insignificant only in the way that a second or two is insignificant in a 1500.
Bwahahaha. Cope harder.
Katir clearly working on strength this winter. Him edging out katir in a slowazz 1500 race requiring a kick means nothing
Nuguse glided to victory like it was nothing for him. At this moment he is unequivocally the best 1500 runner on earth. Will that be true on August 23rd? Maybe not, but this indoor season, he’s been amazing.