Most of those performances will not be equaled outdoors by these runners, so if you overreact, you will be made the fool here. Kessler will never run faster outdoors. The same happened to Prakel, Rupp, Kejelcha, Gregorek etc.
Not in the sense of being able to confidently forecast outdoor performances. Kessler will NEVER run faster outdoors than he did today. He is not alone.
Most of those performances will not be equaled outdoors by these runners, so if you overreact, you will be made the fool here. Kessler will never run faster outdoors. The same happened to Prakel, Rupp, Kejelcha, Gregorek etc.
A BU time maybe you could argue it, but man it’s pretty foolish to bet against Kessler after New Balance and now Millrose.
you’d have better luck making the argument that by some weird scheduling black hole Kessler never ends up running an outdoor track mile again, based on their reduced frequency and priority and scheduling relative to the major meets he is now in contention for.
Not in the sense of being able to confidently forecast outdoor performances. Kessler will NEVER run faster outdoors than he did today. He is not alone.
The OP isn’t wrong. With a few exceptions, the guys who run the best and win indoors do nothing outdoors. Why do you think all the best runners in track history skip indoors?
The OP isn’t wrong. With a few exceptions, the guys who run the best and win indoors do nothing outdoors. Why do you think all the best runners in track history skip indoors?
Because they don't want to run fast?
No. of sub 1:43.63 800m times men: outdoor: 366, indoor: 1
Most of those performances will not be equaled outdoors by these runners, so if you overreact, you will be made the fool here. Kessler will never run faster outdoors. The same happened to Prakel, Rupp, Kejelcha, Gregorek etc.
You realize that Nuguse ran 347 indoors and then 343 outdoors, right? He also ran 333 in the 15 indoors last year and 329 outdoors.
The OP isn’t wrong. With a few exceptions, the guys who run the best and win indoors do nothing outdoors. Why do you think all the best runners in track history skip indoors?
I don't think the good runners "skip indoors." I think most great runners in history except Bolt has some kind of an indoor resume. Christian Coleman and Noah Lyles have won indoors and out!
Geb was a 10,000m man but was also the world indoor 1500m champion, right? Lots of stuff like that...
America's best distance men have all run indoors historically - Rupp, Fisher, Nuguse, Centro, Pre, Lagat, Kessler, Hocker, Shorter...
Did you know this fun fact about Shorter?
"The Boulder running community of today can be traced back to Shorter’s decision to move here to train in 1970. He chose Boulder because CU’s Balch Fieldhouse was the only indoor track in the U.S. situated at an elevation above 5,000 feet in the U.S."
In some ways, Frank Shorter is the reason we’re all here. The Boulder running community of today can be traced back to Shorter’s decision to move here to train in 1970. He chose Boulder because CU’s Balch Fieldhouse was the o...
The OP isn’t wrong. With a few exceptions, the guys who run the best and win indoors do nothing outdoors. Why do you think all the best runners in track history skip indoors?
Because they don't want to run fast?
No. of sub 1:43.63 800m times men: outdoor: 366, indoor: 1
Most of those performances will not be equaled outdoors by these runners, so if you overreact, you will be made the fool here. Kessler will never run faster outdoors. The same happened to Prakel, Rupp, Kejelcha, Gregorek etc.
All those times you quote were run at the questionable BU track.