Jakob Ingebrigtsen 63 HM

DISCUSS!.....NOT DISCUS......

Yet another total newbie.

Did he get chicked? I didn't see him cross the finish line.

Went with the leaders and was 27:27 at 10k (national record).

Stopped and then mixed in runs with stops until he finished in 63 minutes

62.52 Gidey laughed at him probably

This is for all the Jakob fanboys who said he would break the world record:

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The biggest joking sight of my entire life I ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!

A guy that reaches 10k completely exhausted and gasping for oxygen??????????? And walks, stops, jogs, stops, walks, stops, jogs 5-6 times and maybe more between 10-21.1k????????????????????

And this is the guy we called the AEROBIC MONSTER GOAT?????????????????????????????

Watch it yourselves folks, I'm shocked!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jakob was less than 2minutes in front of the women's winner, he probably should join the women's race next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This has got to be the biggest joke of the millennium seriously!!!!!!! This has never happened with Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele, Paul Tergat, Khalid Skah, even doper Mo Farah was never met with such indignity in any race of his!!!!!!!!!!!!

You do understand he could have quit and walked off at 10k, right? He chose to keep running, good for him, knowing he would be humiliated either way.

The reality is that he had over raced (2500m 2 days ago) and mentally he wasnt into this one.

Pretty sure a fresh and ready JI would be able to handle a sub 60 pace for the full distance.

Shut up Mark

This must be the fastest Gallowalking time ever?

In all seriousness, I wouldn't look too much into it. He has been trying to hold a peak and has raced a ton from 1500-5000 over the last 2 months and probably hasn't done much endurance work that would prepare him for a half.

I hate a-holes like this^.

A guy races at not his usual distance and you trash him? F.U.

A guy struggles but finishes, and you trash him? F.U. !

I know! This sight is full of carp like this! Their is hardly a worse website on the hole internet when it comes to grammer and diction.

Plus, if we are being honest, long-standing inside jokes are the worst. :)

I am stunned you haven't been banned from Letsrun. Your takes are insufferably wrong and blatantly unfunny (assuming you are joking). Plus your use of exclamation points and CAPS is unhinged, even for this site.

Can't you just write your opinion in a normal tone of voice?

If your point was that other pros would not have engaged in such a random, one-off type event, you are kind of right. If your point was that Jakob didn't really show much respect for the distance and the competition, you could make a good argument for that (though I disagree).

Your style of writing is going to get you banned from this board. Just sayin'.

No, he did not.

Kenenisa Bekele was notorious for stepping off the course in road marathons throughout the 2010s, you can't have been talking about him.

Proved he is a ball-less wonder and will never run a true distance event.

Boy was I disappointed for him and stayed up till 3:30 am to watch this and WTF! He looked like he was having an asthma attack. I've never watched him so unprepared for a race. He should never have done this. If he were going to run a half he should have done Valencia in December when he was in the middle of his distance running block.

He embarrassed himself and I don't want to hear any more talk of 10 world records.
He is a 5k track runner, one of the best in history and he should be happy with that.

So I don't want to be too hard on Jakob, but like these other athletes especially Cheptegei, Jakob must came back bigger and stronger to erase this horrible performance!

This pathetic loser likely lives in his mother's garage, does not have a job and runs 5k's in the 19 range.