It's happening: Kerr v Ingebrigtsen v Nuguse at 2024 Pre Classic

Yared blindfolded

So….. who gets to decide the rabbits pace? I’d love to be a fly in the room to watch that get hashed out.

I got your pocket joufflu American.

Will be interesting to see jakobs fitness. I still think he will win this, pacer will probably go for 3:46. But Josh and yared might be in better fitness due to them having a full indoor season. Looking forward to this.

The pacemaker (Jakob).

Kerr is in phenomenal form but in a rabbited race I'll go with Nuguse. He's consistently beaten him in these sorts of races and he has a faster PR. Jakob would be the favorite with no injuries but it's hard to pick him with so many question marks around his fitness. He's historically been a quick starter though with good performances indoors and early season, so maybe he will prove me wrong and run a world record.

As far as the pacers go, I'll bet they defer to Kerr. Defending world champ, in fine form, just beat Nuguse head to head and also set a world record this year. Gives him a bit of an advantage, but he is a brash runner and might ask for a hot (sub-1:52) pace anyway.

Jakob WR @ Tracktown USA with 33 people in attendance. Kerr throws his shoes like a toddler when he loses while Yared giggles after also going under the old WR.

Goood one

nah, don't believe it's gonna be Jakob's first race this year, will sneak in somewhere

Jakob team here

predicting the obvious

1 Jakob

2 Kerr

3 Nuguse

The pace will be set for whoever asks for the fastest pace, which probably means Jakob @ 1:52 through 800.

My only prediction at this point is that those 3 don’t comprise the top 3.

I've never seen a race roster announcement this early actually come to fruition. I think maybe only 1 of these 3 will be at the starting line

Edgy prediction.

Predict whatever you want, Kingebrigtsen wins easy.

To be clear, I think 1 or 2 of them will be top-3, just not 3 for 3. It’s actually the most boring prediction ever. The event is too deep and unpredictable to expect it to go to form at the outset of a new season.

Josh Kerr sir!!!!! I'm quite sure of that!!!

distance runners have historically been much better than sprinters about this kind of stuff. i’m pretty optimistic.

kerr called his shot 2 months before the milrose 2 mile and delivered.

It's the Bowerman mile and I honestly see Kerr running at least 3:44 and winning the race. He is just so good right now. 25.19 last 200m on a tight and clumsy indoor track and in lane 2??? That's at least 24.5 on an outdoor track!!!

The fastest outdoor track 200m close in a distance race ironically belongs to Charles Kamathi of Kenya who beat Haile Geb at Edmonton 2001 10k. He closed in 24.9 in crappy shoes and track!!!! And in a 10k, not even 5k much less 3k or mile/1500m!!!!

Kerr is based in seattle. there are too many whatever rays etc. around there, Khamis. it is like one of the tech capitols of the world. VERY SCARY.

I said on another thread that this would likely be Kerr's first race of the outdoor season, but I think he'll probably do a low key 800 first. Anyway, Jakob for the win, probably.

Yes I would be quite curious how Kerr manages to get himself in the shape he is in in such electromagnetically polluted city as Seattle??? The only way it's possible is if he can get off the beaten path and be based in some rural suburb of Seattle??? I need an exact map and location of Josh Kerr's residence and training areas to get an exact idea of where the phone towers and grids are and calculate probabilities.

Jakob just signed a new tv-series to film his olympic season. I doubt he would sign up for that if he wasnt in great shape. He is winning this one.