Keely Hodgkinson is in 1:52 800m fitness. No quetsion.

Lol there are thousands of high schoolers that can run 52.41 and not even break 2. You're delusional.

What a stupid reasoning.

It's stunning how little you understand track and field.

She is NOWHERE NEAR being in 1:52 shape. You're crazy!

Better watch out.

You talking about Letsrun's wife there.

My simp logic aside.

She's a 1:55 800 runner and she's only 21. She doesn't need a 47-second 400m like Jarmila.

Pamela Jelimo's 400 pb was 52.14. Similar to Keely's. Plus on the recent podcast with Trackstaa she mentioned the possibility of the 1:53 800 record. She made no promises, but it's not far-fetched to say she certainly doesnt hold that ambition.

I think Keely can run 1:52 if she can run 3:50. Can she? I see no indication of that.

LOL!!! Well, I like your optimism regarding the 800m.

Personally, I think for the 800 to fall, it may take more of a sprinter type (400m athlete first and foremost, a 400/800 runner).

"very fast. It's impossible for women to run so fast. It will last for 100 years."

Svetlana Masterkova

Nice one as Keely just passed Svetlana on the AT list! ;-)

This sport needs a female athlete of reverence. Keely breaks that standard.

I can see potentially Keely dipping into the 1:54 zone this season. But the stretch between 1:55 flat and 1:54 flat is lightyears of strength and pain and distance. Sub 1:54 would take an ideal race with competition. No one way she can do it alone even with pacer and the perfect lights. She and Athing Mu would have to be lights out on the verge of insanity to get under 1:53. I truly think it would take both of them having a perfect day in the same race (and perhaps with Mary Morra too) for the record to go down. Let's wait until one of the big 3 drops a 1:54 before we even talk about 1:53s which at the moment is crazy talk, sorry.

Yes! She did.

SM was talking about Kratochvílová's record.

Do you think she is right?

I like your interesting post.

Let's look at it another way as well to explore it.

Coe - 1:41.73 is 50.865 per 400m
46.87 400m best
His best in a relay was 45.5 though
Going with his official 400m time, 4.00 (yes I rounded up) seconds time difference
Now lets bear in mind these are from different time periods but it's the best we have.

Keely - 1:55.77 is 57.885 per lap
52.41 400m best

Coe - he runs an 800m lap at x 1.085 of his 400m.
Keely - that would be 56.877 = 1:53.75

The ratio will be different for men and women though.

All well and good, but Coe was also WR holder in the mile. So it is apples to oranges. If their 400m times were equivalent (52.41/46.87) that might help, but we have little idea on her 1500m fitness. Meadows says low 4.xx (but then Bishop can run 4.04, but only 1.57, not sure of her 400 speed).

She needs to get faster over 400 and/or better endurance as that is almost "distance" ability to run that fast. With that logic, if Mu develops Keely's presumed endurance, then she could run 1.47. Easier said than done.

Does anyone have any 800m results or footage from Bekele? He must of ran some 800's when he started running in the mid 90's. He wasn't at his prime yet though so I'd be curious to see how fast he would run an 800m in 2007 when he ran his 1500m PB

Saying that Keely can run 1:52 is like saying that Jakob can run 3:24.

2 seconds in 800m are lightyears.

I can see 1:54 as a lifetime best for Keely and 1:54 for Athing Mu, if she gets it together.

Of course OP is out of his mind ; )

But at least Hodgkinson is in super beauty fitness after she let her hair down ❤️ : ) : ) : ) No "quetsion" ! : )

Just listened to the tracksta podcast. She really would be LR’s wife