"7:30 isn't fast for a professional athlete, it just isn't" lmao
That's the kind of mindset you need to be as successful as he's been. Honestly I think his performance was great for a 1:43/3:29 guy; how many people in history have had the range he's shown at 22? It's great that he wants to go sub-7:30 though, and I think he'll do it this year or next.
I just don't think he does enough of the aerobic stuff to translate his speed to the longer events. I'm not saying he's terrible at 3k, just that his focus is on the 800/ mile and it shows sometimes.
"7:30 isn't fast for a professional athlete, it just isn't" lmao
That's the kind of mindset you need to be as successful as he's been. Honestly I think his performance was great for a 1:43/3:29 guy; how many people in history have had the range he's shown at 22? It's great that he wants to go sub-7:30 though, and I think he'll do it this year or next.
The game has changed. Forget about history. This is a new game. There will be more and more 1:43, 3.28, 7:30 guys. And of course Webb was a 1:43 guy who would probably be running close to 7:30 today.
"7:30 isn't fast for a professional athlete, it just isn't" lmao
That's the kind of mindset you need to be as successful as he's been. Honestly I think his performance was great for a 1:43/3:29 guy; how many people in history have had the range he's shown at 22? It's great that he wants to go sub-7:30 though, and I think he'll do it this year or next.
Why are you complimenting him for being just like every other distance runner? All of them want to run faster.
"7:30 isn't fast for a professional athlete, it just isn't" lmao
That's the kind of mindset you need to be as successful as he's been. Honestly I think his performance was great for a 1:43/3:29 guy; how many people in history have had the range he's shown at 22? It's great that he wants to go sub-7:30 though, and I think he'll do it this year or next.
The game has changed. Forget about history. This is a new game. There will be more and more 1:43, 3.28, 7:30 guys. And of course Webb was a 1:43 guy who would probably be running close to 7:30 today.
He might be too tough on himself.
He's faster than:
Coe 7:54
Cram 7:43
Ovett 7:41
Webb 7:39
Hocker 7:39
Centrowitz Jr 7:40
The tools are in the tool box. Start focusing on THE WIN🏆🏆🏆!!
Needs to put this in perspective. he was poised to go sub 7:30 but just seemed to rig when he went to call on it. probably just needs to go back and add another thing or two to his training that he may have missed. could be an easy fix. could’ve also went completely different and he could just have easily had a fantastic kick today. 7:35 is pretty good jogging across the line.
Also ran 8:05 in the two mile at Milrose (WA scoring table puts that a 7:27)
But a 1:43 800 (which Hocker hasn't run) is about the same amount of points
It's great that Kessler wants to run faster but his off-distance is about as good as Hocker's off-distance
But the 8:05 was indoors, I think it's more accurate to use the 1.08 conversion, that puts Hocker at 7:29, but I do think Hocker could run 7:27 outdoors.
what a dumb thing to say. according to this idea, only around 50 human beings in the entirety of human history are or have been "fast." prior to 1989, not a single human being was ever "fast."
what a dumb thing to say. according to this idea, only around 50 human beings in the entirety of human history are or have been "fast." prior to 1989, not a single human being was ever "fast."
Listen, on this one, I will do a defense of Hobbs, not on the performance. You catch a guy, right after a race, in which he clearly though he underperformed at 21 turning 22 years old, you might get this. He was clearly disappointed, he got himself into a really good position and looked quite comfortable to me, and when he tried to punch it down last 200M, he had nothing, I was surprised as he seemed to be as well. Unlike others I do not think it's at all too far from him, just a bad last 200M in a first race in a season.