Nico Young in competitive 800 at Bryan Clay today

why is he wasting his time with this sh1t?

Why is Mike Smith a successful coach and you are not?

Same reason Rupp did… I assume they take basically zero break from training for these races…

prolly has 6xmile to do after.

1 minute and 48 seconds of his life he’ll never get back

Practice for the closing stages of championship distance races. Plus if he can be a 1:47/3:31 type guy he’s gonna be set in a tactical 10k.

Because the only way for a distance runner to earn Rojo’s respect is by having a fast 800m PR.

1:47 mid

Or by dropping out of a mile at the 1400m mark. Athing Mu got RoJo's respect for that one.

There’s nothing wrong with him running an 800m, but there isn’t any value to it either. Most 5/10 guys never run them.

he's working on his speed. after The Ten he said he'd be doing more 800 and 1500's this outdoor season.

He wants to post an actual time at sea level, so this board won't have to argue whether he is a 1:48 or 1:49 guy and dispute the conversion.

Racing an 800m won’t make him faster and since he’s a 5/10 guy, he’s can only improve himself at any distance by working on his strength. There’s no such thing as trading strength for speed.

he ran a 1:48

Pretty close...1:48:00

Wow, that was the worst possible race he could've had for 1:48.00, but I'll take it. Definitely not gonna be in that situation a lot.

400 0:51.21
800 1:48.0
1000 2:17.27
1500 3:32.12
1-mile 3:48.69
3000 7:25.73
2-mile 8:00.47
5000 12:49.62
10000 26:52.72
half-mara 59:31.88
marathon 124:23.15

Possible times based off of his 800 and 10k

Thoughts?

Quite a good confidence builder.

With 800m left in the 10000m at the Olympics, he will be able to look to his right and look to his left and tell himself that nobody there has ever run a sub 1:48 (unless Almgren runs the 10000m of course)

Then he'll look in front of him and see 6 East Africans, a Norwegian and grant fisher.

The runner in front of him fell so that slowed him down a bit.