Before you wait all day to see that...This is a first race run to win rust buster, I highly doubt this going under 7:40's
He’s not flying to Boston to 7:4x.
I mean...look at the field, King is right. This thing could get awfully slow/tactical. Hobbs and anyone else in it should have a goal of winning, as there's no natural frontrunners and these are all 1500 guys who rightly or wrongly will trust their kick. This race might go out in 2:32 but then split 2:40+.
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Of course, a man of sensibility is right. Thoughtsleader is one of the most reasonable posters on here and not because he agrees with me. I am not theorizing, I know what the purpose is. He has not had one(race) effort over a 200M Track in a while, he flew to Boston last year to run 1500, and won then came back to Millrose. It's not that big a flight from Michigan to Boston 2 hours or less.
This is indoor track. You go to these meets to test your fitness. If he needs to be the guy to set the pace, so be it. He should definitely be low 7:30s with an A goal of breaking that barrier. All four guys ahead of him in Paris have that kind of strength. Maybe that's just a coincidence, or maybe it's the piece he needs so that he can utilize his speed on in the last 300 meters, and actually compete with them. I'd bet that's what he's thinking.
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Of course, a man of sensibility is right. Thoughtsleader is one of the most reasonable posters on here and not because he agrees with me. I am not theorizing, I know what the purpose is. He has not had one(race) effort over a 200M Track in a while, he flew to Boston last year to run 1500, and won then came back to Millrose. It's not that big a flight from Michigan to Boston 2 hours or less.
He went to NB last year to run 3:33. A hard effort.
We'll see what happens. He's the class of the field. They will likely have a pacer that can run 1600 in around 4:00, if anybody's willing to go with that. he should be able to run fairly conservatively and still pop a 26.xx to finish with a 7:37/38 type of race at worse.
Will see what happens between the mix of 3:30-3:33 and 13:10-13:15 type runners.
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Of course, a man of sensibility is right. Thoughtsleader is one of the most reasonable posters on here and not because he agrees with me. I am not theorizing, I know what the purpose is. He has not had one(race) effort over a 200M Track in a while, he flew to Boston last year to run 1500, and won then came back to Millrose. It's not that big a flight from Michigan to Boston 2 hours or less.
Of course, a man of sensibility is right. Thoughtsleader is one of the most reasonable posters on here and not because he agrees with me. I am not theorizing, I know what the purpose is. He has not had one(race) effort over a 200M Track in a while, he flew to Boston last year to run 1500, and won then came back to Millrose. It's not that big a flight from Michigan to Boston 2 hours or less.
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Oh, you are so creative , got up early for that I see? Oh the Internet name and everything, you think that up on your own?
We'll see what happens. He's the class of the field. They will likely have a pacer that can run 1600 in around 4:00, if anybody's willing to go with that. he should be able to run fairly conservatively and still pop a 26.xx to finish with a 7:37/38 type of race at worse.
Will see what happens between the mix of 3:30-3:33 and 13:10-13:15 type runners.
I highly doubt the pacer will be 4:00 in this race, more like 4:05/06 and then ratchet it down from there
We'll see what happens. He's the class of the field. They will likely have a pacer that can run 1600 in around 4:00, if anybody's willing to go with that. he should be able to run fairly conservatively and still pop a 26.xx to finish with a 7:37/38 type of race at worse.
Will see what happens between the mix of 3:30-3:33 and 13:10-13:15 type runners.
I highly doubt the pacer will be 4:00 in this race, more like 4:05/06 and then ratchet it down from there
Depends what Hobbs wants to do. He recently said he's tired of being left out of the conversation. Do you get in the conversation by giving everybody something to think about, or by sitting and kicking against a field of guys whose highest ambition on the world level is just to make a team.
fwiw, when he ran this race 2 years ago, he stayed with the pack for around 1800 meters. 4:33. 2 seconds back. Yared put just a little bit of pressure on the group with a low 29 on the next lap, which dropped Hobbs and most of the others. Within another 2 laps, they were all pretty much done. Hobbs pretty much continued to lose a second plus every lap to the end.