Give your appreciation to rabbits Peter Sisk and
Vincent Ciattei. Sisk is so sensible on the early laps, not overcooking.
Ciattei held it up for 1950 meters, leading to a 4.55 2 k split.
He passed the mile in about 3.56/57. I thought he was done by then but really gritting for almost one more lap, still at an even pace.
marwar wrote:
Give your appreciation to rabbits Peter Sisk and
Vincent Ciattei. Sisk is so sensible on the early laps, not overcooking.
Ciattei held it up for 1950 meters, leading to a 4.55 2 k split.
He passed the mile in about 3.56/57. I thought he was done by then but really gritting for almost one more lap, still at an even pace.
Great pacing duo. Sisk did an incredible job first in Monaco (1500m) and yesterday in Silesia. When you have the form and pacing sense like he does, you can be confident the field goes fast: This is what I would call top-tier pacing. However, it will likely remain a rare occurrence. The guy ran 1:43 over 800m and will probably pursue his own goals, which is understandable. Unless the event organizers offer a LOT of money.
Agree. Credit where it's due, both were nothing short of fantastic. Put Jakob in an excellent position to succeed.
Jakob will probably going to recommend Sisk for pacing in future with the organsiers. He will appreciate the same pacer with him to get the job done in future
They did a good job of staying on for a considerable portion of the race, but they can't be credited for the pace.
They had pace lights the whole way. It's very easy to run an even pace when you simply have to stick with the lights.
Not bad to have a 1:43 Olympian and 3:31 4th placer in USA to rabbit your WR attempt. Sisk is probably the new Sowinski but faster
marwar wrote:
Give your appreciation to rabbits Peter Sisk and
Vincent Ciattei. Sisk is so sensible on the early laps, not overcooking.
Ciattei held it up for 1950 meters, leading to a 4.55 2 k split.
He passed the mile in about 3.56/57. I thought he was done by then but really gritting for almost one more lap, still at an even pace.
Yeah they did a great job but as another poster mentioned - they had wavelight too right or was I missing something? When you have that, there is basically zero excuse to not get it right.
I mean this is another element of the WL performance benefit - it's not just the field that has the luxury of having all guess work taken out of trying to run even - it's the physical bodies like Sisk and Ciattei that are now also running right to schedule from the first 20m of the race. In the past the field was totally at the mercy of the pacer - if they went out in 56.0 when they should have been 57.5, you had two options - let them go and get no benefit, or go with the pace and potentially compromise yourself late in the effort due to misjudging the first lap (Jakob knows the importance of this right?).
What was impressive was VC getting to basically 2000m - that was good running from him.
So often the second pacer is the weak link. I thought this guy was going to blow it but he seemed to sense the moment and kept going.
The 800 pacer was good also
Women's 1500 pace was simply too ambitious after Hull dropped out and Welteji had no interest in 3:52 territory after running 3000 three days earlier. Welteji understood that Hailu would be content behind her no matter what the pace was.