This is it folks. You have seen peak Jakob. He may maintain for a few years but you have seen the best of him. No shame in that either as he is great. He is great for the sport. But he has stopped improving. No surprise there of course.
Peak Jakob is now plateau Jakob. And no, 7:54 isn't generally beyond the reach of any endurance-based 3:28 guy who makes a serious attempt. It was to be expected.
On your mark, set, cope. But the faster you do, the more you know it's true.
Says the poster who a few years ago told us with absolute certainty that Jakob never would run sub 3.31…! 😂
Liar... I said 3:28 was his limit, and wasn't far off.
Today we have seen for sure Jakob Ingeforksen is done.
This is it folks. You have seen peak Jakob. He may maintain for a few years but you have seen the best of him. No shame in that either as he is great. He is great for the sport. But he has stopped improving. No surprise there of course.
This post is only 3 months old but boy, it has already aged like a blue cheese left in a sweaty sauna hasn't it?
This is it folks. You have seen peak Jakob. He may maintain for a few years but you have seen the best of him. No shame in that either as he is great. He is great for the sport. But he has stopped improving. No surprise there of course.
This post is only 3 months old but boy, it has already aged like a blue cheese left in a sweaty sauna hasn't it?
The OP nailed it. Jakob is no longer improving. He will never run faster than he has in 2023. This is his peak.
OP said that we'd 'seen the best of him' at the end of May. Since then he's smashed his 1500 PR twice, destroyed 2 world records, and knocked 3 seconds off his mile PR (third fastest of all time and a whisker away from another world record). So I ask you...in what sense did OP 'nail it'?
This is it folks. You have seen peak Jakob. He may maintain for a few years but you have seen the best of him. No shame in that either as he is great. He is great for the sport. But he has stopped improving. No surprise there of course.
Oh they downvoted you. They mocked you. But you nailed it. You absolutely nailed it.