Cheptegei got second in 12:41.
What are these times????
Cheptegei got second in 12:41.
What are these times????
And I hate to remind everyone but the dude is younger the G. Fisher and the one just ahead of him in Tokyo. The good news for Fisher is Kejeclhas isn't in the 10,000.
Aregawi is an absolute BEAST!!
What a race!
Wow, yet another great RACE all the way to a fantastic time. Crazy, Aregawi going wire to wire like that.
Aregawi ran 26:33 on the roads earlier this year! On a solo effort.
Paris next year will be different though.
Tim Hutchings says the WR is going to go.
Let's get Kiplimo and Kejelcha, Aregawi and Cheptegei, Ingebrigtsen. Who else am I missing? Put the lights on 12:35 and put up $500,000 for 1st and a million for sub-12:30. Make it THE GREATEST 5000 Race in history.
What's crazy is many of those men won't medal at Worlds.
A sweet combo of hi tech shoes and wavelights
Why Aregawi is not in 10k?
This would be genius!!
I think he will be, he won the trials race last week in 26:50 over Barega
Aregawi is absolutely fearless. I hope, for his sake, that he hasn’t shot his load with these recent great performances.
I’m a fan of relatively frequent racing and I think Jerry might sometimes do the BTC athletes a disservice by limiting early season competition so much, but I do wonder if people like Aregawi who just pushes hard the whole way in long distance races might be cooked by the WC. I hope he’s there and ready to duke it out with Jakob, Kejelcha, Kiplimo, and Cheptegei.
rojo wrote:
Tim Hutchings says the WR is going to go.
Let's get Kiplimo and Kejelcha, Aregawi and Cheptegei, Ingebrigtsen. Who else am I missing? Put the lights on 12:35 and put up $500,000 for 1st and a million for sub-12:30. Make it THE GREATEST 5000 Race in history.
What's crazy is many of those men won't medal at Worlds.
Girma too!
Crazy that we don’t name one Kenyan in the top… 10? in the 5000.
rojo wrote:
Tim Hutchings says the WR is going to go.
Let's get Kiplimo and Kejelcha, Aregawi and Cheptegei, Ingebrigtsen. Who else am I missing? Put the lights on 12:35 and put up $500,000 for 1st and a million for sub-12:30. Make it THE GREATEST 5000 Race in history.
What's crazy is many of those men won't medal at Worlds.
Katir, Bekele and Gebrhiwet are definitely worthy of inclusion in that too. It really would be a hell of a race
Owl of Minerva wrote:
Aregawi is absolutely fearless. I hope, for his sake, that he hasn’t shot his load with these recent great performances.
I’m a fan of relatively frequent racing and I think Jerry might sometimes do the BTC athletes a disservice by limiting early season competition so much, but I do wonder if people like Aregawi who just pushes hard the whole way in long distance races might be cooked by the WC. I hope he’s there and ready to duke it out with Jakob, Kejelcha, Kiplimo, and Cheptegei.
He needs to race the championships like that. Last year he ran scared. This year, both he and Kiplimo are better-served running the last half of the race HARD. Unless they want Jakob, Kejelcha and Cheptegei to outkick them.
Cheptegei now has the record for fastest second place in a 5k, barely edging out Kiplimo's recent 12:41
Until today Chep hadn't even run in the 12:40s! He had 12:35 and 12:53. His career has honestly been so odd
That was an insane 5000m! Aregawi definitely gave it a great effort as did Cheptegei and practically every other runner in the race. Unreal how fast these men (and women) are running nowadays.
bekele boi wrote:
Cheptegei now has the record for fastest second place in a 5k, barely edging out Kiplimo's recent 12:41
Until today Chep hadn't even run in the 12:40s! He had 12:35 and 12:53. His career has honestly been so odd
not that odd winning gold pretty much every year. Just not running time trials every year but he was definitely able of fast times in 2021 and 2022
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Said it then and I'll say it now. Aregawi can and will threaten the 5k and 10k world records. thats why hes my goat
rojo wrote:
Tim Hutchings says the WR is going to go.
Let's get Kiplimo and Kejelcha, Aregawi and Cheptegei, Ingebrigtsen. Who else am I missing? Put the lights on 12:35 and put up $500,000 for 1st and a million for sub-12:30. Make it THE GREATEST 5000 Race in history.
What's crazy is many of those men won't medal at Worlds.
Girma and Katir could probably follow this pack until the last 100 or 200. That would be the most epic distance race ever.