When you have 2 runners who are 3:27 and 3:28. You don't run 13:15 lol
None of the 12:40-42 runners have a medal. Good job guys ! (ironic)
I don’t see them beating a 7:54 2-miler in any scenario for 5000m.
They should’ve known he wasn’t 100%. it was their best chance to beat him by pushing it from the front. I think Aregawi is an idiot for not pushing it because he doesn’t have any kick in a tactical race.
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
Most of them hit their seasonal peak a month or two ago to hit those low 12:40s. That shows a conscious choice that the performances are more important than medals, and I agree.
I get endless, spitting hate from a parade of losers who think 13:15 decides who's best, and whoever gainsays it must be silenced. But I won't be silenced! I'm not interested in who can get through rounds and win a sit-and-kick, but in who can run 5000 the fastest. That's still the Ethios, Kenyans, Ugandans
Most of them hit their seasonal peak a month or two ago to hit those low 12:40s. That shows a conscious choice that the performances are more important than medals, and I agree.
I get endless, spitting hate from a parade of losers who think 13:15 decides who's best, and whoever gainsays it must be silenced. But I won't be silenced! I'm not interested in who can get through rounds and win a sit-and-kick, but in who can run 5000 the fastest. That's still the Ethios, Kenyans, Ugandans
Jakob will get the WR after Paris once he gives up the 1500 for good.
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
All those PBs came in paced races on the Diamond League circuit. Leading a race means you are taking the wind for everyone else and exerting more effort. When the top runners are all within a few seconds of each other, it pretty much means you are sacrificing your own race while the rest of the field gets towed along
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
mentally, these guys know, that if they push it near a PB pace, there is at least a 50% chance they will break, and not even be in the hunt during the last few laps, while they are confident they can give themselves a chance to be in mix running it tactically.
so they are killing their shot at gold but giving a better shot at one of the other medals. you could call it cowardice
Most of them hit their seasonal peak a month or two ago to hit those low 12:40s. That shows a conscious choice that the performances are more important than medals, and I agree.
I get endless, spitting hate from a parade of losers who think 13:15 decides who's best, and whoever gainsays it must be silenced. But I won't be silenced! I'm not interested in who can get through rounds and win a sit-and-kick, but in who can run 5000 the fastest. That's still the Ethios, Kenyans, Ugandans
lol tell that to the parade of also rans from the 2010s that nobody remembers. winning the championship is what matters. it's what people remember. and it pays the bills.
your fast time doesn't mean anything if it's not a world record
What did it matter? His last 4 laps were 3:56. No matter the pace he’s just better than everyone else. He has just as high a LT and VO2max as anyone else. He’s just better.
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
mentally, these guys know, that if they push it near a PB pace, there is at least a 50% chance they will break, and not even be in the hunt during the last few laps, while they are confident they can give themselves a chance to be in mix running it tactically.
so they are killing their shot at gold but giving a better shot at one of the other medals. you could call it cowardice
Yeah, they’d need to specifically work together and trade pacing laps for the benefit of all of them. This only works if they a) know and trust each other, b) are all capable of maintaining a generally even pace c) make a plan in advance so they all know.
Not sure if they train together or even know each other, Ethiopia is a big place and I have no idea if culturally they buy into ‘teamwork,’ or if there’s one guy who’s gonna try to blow it up to try to sneak the medal. Definitely pretty rare that US runners work together in a race like that so they’d have to be a lot less ‘individualistic.’
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
He won the 5k because he's as strong as anyone else but has more speed than that field, which incidentally is the same reason he lost the 1500 (last year and this year).
Jakob needs to accept his weaknesses and work on them if he wants to do the double next year. Claiming he has a mysterious virus which impacts his 1500 but not 5k for the third year in a row would probably become tiresome.
Ok genuine question, I really would like to know the answer.
Why don’t all the racers go out there are race as close to their own PB as they can? I ask my wife this, and she keeps say, “that wouldn’t work”, but why?
If you turn up, run your fastest, and still come up short, you didn’t train hard enough. There was nothing you could have done more.
Why get sucked into all these tactics? You’re either fast enough or you’re not.
mentally, these guys know, that if they push it near a PB pace, there is at least a 50% chance they will break, and not even be in the hunt during the last few laps, while they are confident they can give themselves a chance to be in mix running it tactically.
so they are killing their shot at gold but giving a better shot at one of the other medals. you could call it cowardice
Most of them hit their seasonal peak a month or two ago to hit those low 12:40s. That shows a conscious choice that the performances are more important than medals, and I agree.
I get endless, spitting hate from a parade of losers who think 13:15 decides who's best, and whoever gainsays it must be silenced. But I won't be silenced! I'm not interested in who can get through rounds and win a sit-and-kick, but in who can run 5000 the fastest. That's still the Ethios, Kenyans, Ugandans
Jacob ran fast times all year also. Then went out and smacked around the "ethios, kenyans, Ugandans", for the 2nd consecutive time, at their preferred distance. Maybe you get the hate for saying stupid things?
All those PBs came in paced races on the Diamond League circuit. Leading a race means you are taking the wind for everyone else and exerting more effort. When the top runners are all within a few seconds of each other, it pretty much means you are sacrificing your own race while the rest of the field gets towed along
Well they didn't take the wind, exert any extra effort, sacrifice their own race, or tow the field along...so I'm sure they all feel splendid about not finishing near the medals.
Meanwhile little Agathe Caune front ran her womens 5000 semi, pr'd, and unexpectedly q'd for the final.
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