World 1500 Power Rankings Edition 1 (Outdoors)

Good list, but you forgot about George Manangoi and his rival, Justus Soget.

Know you are trolling, but George has been racing but was no competition for Munguti at the KDF Champs. Can’t foresee a path for him to make the Kenyan team. Soget moved up to the 5/10K in a Japan, but is racing poorly this year.

Wouldn’t Garcia be in the bubble category? Isn’t he good enough?

A completely new version - congrats. Must be around #25 or even #30.
I will publish the list when we are over 50. It's getting harder, but with such creativity like here, we can do it.

Lol since my phone auto-corrected it I thought it might be correct for once

To be honest, I think we need to see him put together a world-class race. Worlds race looks a bit more like an outlier performance than the norm. I expect it’ll come around but a lot of guys had better outdoor openers/indoor seasons.

I hear you but to me he deserves a spot in the bubble. He has run 3:34, 3:51i and 7:34i this year so it is not a bad start to the year. We shall see.

Lol. Has Nuguse in third when Kessler had a time just about equal to r. Cheriyoit. A pathetic list made by a useless Nuguse lover

Fourth.

R Cheruiyot ran 3:32.0 twice and a 3:33 at altitude completely solo. First time he ran 3:32.0 he outkicked Abel Kipsang impressively. Second time he held the lead for 550 post-rabbit after flying from Kenya to LA. I’m high on Kessler but he ran .6 seconds slower and he was in an entirely different race than Cheruiyots (which is fine!). I’m not sure why Nuguse where I have him after beating Hoare and running somewhat close to Jakob (after his 3:47/7:28 indoor) is very controversial.

Lol. And you actually think Hoare would have beaten r. Cheriyoit the other day and ended up in front of Kessler??? C'mon

I think he would’ve finished between Cheruiyot and Kessler in a 3:32-low time yes. Maybe Hoare could’ve split the Cheruiyots because Reynold did so much of the work even.

I would say no chance. Hoare is just not there yet. Would have ended up behind Teare

Not there yet? Hoare lost to a better runner in Jakob by 0.8 the next day, while Teare lost to Cheruiyot by 1.3 seconds. Also beat Cheruiyot, Wightman, Kerr, Kipsang and plenty more last year in a championship race, Teare has not shown anything close to that ability yet.

You're not the sharpest knife huh? First, Cheriyoit and Jakob were very different races. Second, by saying Hoare is not there yet means that he's got a ways to go to get to his 2022 shape. This is not the same Hoare that beat Cheriyoit in the CGs

Good list. I had a similar ranking (in my head). Tim is looking like he is back this year - which is exciting. If anything, this increases jakob's odds against the rest as it, more likely than not, will make Worlds very fast.

I hoped the other contenders would be closer to Jakob, but I fear, this season we won't see many outside your top 3 really compete with those at the top. (Really Tim and Jakob)

It’s kinda interesting because last year it was Kipsang not Tim who made it fast. Tim looked mighty comfortable/patient behind a solid pace in LA. So maybe I’m wrong and he’ll look to pace off Jakob/Kipsang/Reynold the first 1200 and not go back to his control the race tactic of 2017-2021

True! We will see I guess. In the end, lots of people will be interested to be behind Jakob in that case --- and it won't at all be obvious whether frontrunning in the wind will be much worse than fighting for 2nd position. Because in the end, if you're 5th in a stretched out field at 400m you really have to hope the front runner blows up.

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