Based on Gaults article, it sounds like without the standard Kelati will not get to go to worlds in the 10k based on ranking because of the XC qualifiers. If true, who can the US send if that is the case, just Monson? No one else ran the standard this year.
In chronological order, we get you ready for this weekend's pro action which is taking place all over the globe. It includes $8,000 800s in NYC and world champ Fred Kerley running his first 100m of 2023 in Japan.
.@KelatiWeini's coach, @HAASruns, told us this will be her only attempt at hitting the standard before shifting the focus to the 5000m and targeting that standard in June.
The plan would be to double at the U.S. Championships, if she has both standards. pic.twitter.com/qBxFG1NGtS
cant remember the name of it. friend was one of the organisers who picked Paul up the other day - he had a photo of it but was on his IG story, so it's gone now. sorry
No women will go via rankings in the 10000. There's already 20 with the standard, plus the 8 XC qualifiers. Any woman who wants to go now needs to run the standard.
On the men's side, there's currently still 3 qualified by ranking (Wildschutt, Gressier, and Mayo). But I'd expect three more men will run the standard in the next few months. Remember, they can run the standard on the roads now so it's not just about finding a meet with a 10000.
Why is an apostrophe used in your race event title? We hear this quite a lot – ‘We love your event but why are you wrongly using an apostrophe in Night of the 10,000m PB’s? We are aware of the standard use of an apostrophe, but for us it comes down to clarity when using individual letters and to explain further please see the wise words of the Times journalist Oliver Kamm from his column ‘The Pedant’. “This is a question not of grammar but of orthography: the conventions for writing a language. It may sound an obvious point but surprisingly it’s not always clear to zealots for “correct” English”. “The apostrophe has no grammatical function and is certainly not essential to meaning. Sure, there are right and wrong ways of using an apostrophe but the mark is just an orthographical convenience. The apostrophe doesn’t exist in the spoken language (the cat’s bowl is pronounced the same way as the cats’ bowl) but meaning doesn’t thereby break down. Indeed, it didn’t exist in written English either till the 16th century, when it entered the language from French as a printer’s mark to denote an elision’. “Gradually the apostrophe was adopted as a genitive marker too. But the conventions for its use only settled down in their current form in the age of mechanised printing from the early 19th century. Inconsistencies abound. The apostrophe in Mary’s denotes possession but it doesn’t in it’s. That’s an accident of history; there’s no logic to it. Writers commonly used it’s as a possessive between the 17th and 19th centuries. Shakespeare did it. Here’s Ferdinand, prince of Naples, in The Tempest: “This Musicke crept by me upon the waters, / Allaying both their fury, and my passion / With it’s sweet ayre . . . ” The usage is wrong now. It wasn’t then”. “It’s common practice to refer to p’s and q’s rather than ps and qs. Simon Heffer of the Times clarifies this. He writes: “Plurals require no apostrophe, though I would make one exception for the sake of clarity: which is when one is writing about individual letters of the alphabet.” “That’s sensible. “What should determine use of the apostrophe is clarity. It’s how the mark came into written English in the first place”. And it is for this very reason of clarity that we use an apostrophe in Night of the 10,000m PB’s.
Side note, forget your opinion of Matt fox and sweat elite, just go listen to the May 9th sweat elite podcast with the Night of 10000m pbs race director Ben Pochee. If that doesn’t put a smile on your face and give you hope for the sport, nothing will. Up with folks like him, and all the social media runners that have promoted the event for years. Up with wave light, up with beer gardens, up with fan priority over officials. there is a brutal gap between the structure of school-to-university athletics and the elite-of-elite athletics, and that gap excludes both participants and prospective fans of what would be a vibrant and enormous community/club based middle tier of athletics.
Thanks GFTS.
Anybody know if Ben Pochee has done any other podcasts? Would love to learn all about this but not willing to listen to Matt Fox under any circumstances.
Side note, forget your opinion of Matt fox and sweat elite, just go listen to the May 9th sweat elite podcast with the Night of 10000m pbs race director Ben Pochee. If that doesn’t put a smile on your face and give you hope for the sport, nothing will. Up with folks like him, and all the social media runners that have promoted the event for years. Up with wave light, up with beer gardens, up with fan priority over officials. there is a brutal gap between the structure of school-to-university athletics and the elite-of-elite athletics, and that gap excludes both participants and prospective fans of what would be a vibrant and enormous community/club based middle tier of athletics.
Thanks GFTS.
Anybody know if Ben Pochee has done any other podcasts? Would love to learn all about this but not willing to listen to Matt Fox under any circumstances.
'The Elite Endurance Podcast' (on the Apple Podcast app, idk if on others) - 9th March, S2 E8: 'Ben Pochee - The Night of the 10K PB's'
27:12 win for Chelimo - closes in 58sec just not quite enough for WC standard. Great to see Chelimo back racing fast though
Yeah … there must be a way to convert the ~ 54 bum runners he had to pass starting after the halfway point… running out in lane two for a good portion had to add some 6-10 seconds to his time. I’d say 27:02
It is currently hard to imagine Stanley Mburu making the Kenyan squad (Sawe, Kipkorir Kimeli, Kandie, Etir, Simiu Ebenyo, Kiplagat, Kibet) ahead of the dozen guys in better current form. However it’d be somewhat a sham if he beats the gauntlet and finishes top 3 in probably a 27:30 or faster time at altitude and gets denied despite silver at Worlds last year and multiple sub-27:20 clockings.