Womens 10,000m loaded at Pre (How many will dip below 30min, >10?)

but still a few biggies missin

Would have been great if Letesenbet Gidey was in that field too.

So tell me again why I am supposed to care about a buncjh of low rent East African dopers whose fake exploits have immiserated the entire sport. Yippee.

Quite annoying that Hassan is in the 5,000m field, which looks decent, but weaker for sure.

with the way she looked at track fest, i'm not sure she'll even be able to beat taye and halom (?) or whoever the other fast ethiopian is

Wish we could see some top American names in this field, even Morgan or Valby and Tuohy would’ve been a cool addition.

With Monson out of the picture, the American 10k is wide open.

Agreed Kelati and Infield are in the 5k, but would have been nice to see them in this loaded 10k.

Should be a great race but I wonder if the Kenyans even try to go with Tsegay or they have their own tactical race within the race

Give Tsegay a soft field, pacers and wavelights, she runs an historic time. In this field, she will push too hard, not get the WR and lose to Chebet.

N’Getich, the road 10k WR holder, is out? She was on the start list before but not anymore on the diamond league site. Injured? Visa issues? Will we be getting breaking news from AIU’s twitter soon? She was the favorite for me and I was actually excited to see what she could do on the track after her unbelievable record on the road. Also, Tsegay has traveled to Eugene but is she still going for the WR? I’d imagine it would be hard with all the Kenyan women with different abilities running with her. She ran the third fastest 1500m a few weeks ago so I’m not sure why she’s even going for the 10k record. Surely she has a chance at the 1500m records? For the 10k I feel like it’s certain that she could break the 29 min mark it’s just a matter of time. She should’ve tried it after the Olympics or next year. It would be amazing to see the same woman holding the 1500m, 5k and 10k records all at once.

Will be a boring Kenyan set set up for Tsegay, to maximize her chance to WR.

MY BAD …Tsegay is Ethiopian!

Its an amazing record for sure, but I think people really don't realize how big of an advantage male pacers are (it's not just the shoes, otherwise the mens 10k record would also be a lot faster than the mens 10,000m record).

I've never seen a woman's 10,000m record attempt paced longer than ~5k, and Gidey's pacer did a pretty bad job of even going that far. It would take a 14:05 woman to pace Tsegay or Kpyegon or Gidey or Hassan to their true 28:3X potential in this event. I wonder how much you'd have to pay chebet to run as long as she can at 28:35 pace (probably a boat load money).

Tsegay is the favorite for me followed by Chebet followed by N'Getich if she is running at full potential.

Freweyni the other plus add the South American area record holder. Brea has the top six times, all-time

The real question is if our best, Ednah Kurgat, will get lapped twice?

Ngetich still doesn’t make any sense. A 28:46 runner should by far and away destroy any other current female. Either it was a Bob Beamon type scenario, or something is very much amiss.

I'd say the male pacing is worth 25 seconds (1 second per lap), so 28:46 = 29:11 on the track, that puts her as 3rd best woman in the world with the current crop of PBs. Although I think Tsegay's PB is soft at the moment. I think if you got a male pacer in front of Gidey, Tsegay, Kipyegon, Hassan, Ngetich, the winner dips into the 28:30s for sure.

This is actually an interesting question. If she ran 31:15 or faster, she won't get lapped twice. Any slower and she is in danger. To think you have to run faster than 5min per mile just to avoid getting lapped twice goes to show how good these top women are these days.