Remember: a time trial is when you run solo (individual time trial) or exclusively with teammates (team time trial). A race with pacers is not a time trial.
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Remember: a time trial is when you run solo (individual time trial) or exclusively with teammates (team trial). A race with pacers is not a time trial.
happy to clear this up for you
Correct, Ingebrigtsen is the king of paced races. He also has the best CV at Global Championships over 1500m. He is the king overall.
I'd be in shambles if I flew across the country specifically to break a WR, and the one meet of the season that has a different organizer ends up an hour behind schedule, and they won't shuffle events around or anything.
I'd be in shambles if I flew across the country specifically to break a WR, and the one meet of the season that has a different organizer ends up an hour behind schedule, and they won't shuffle events around or anything.
No offense but Heather Maclean just ran 4:17.01 dealing with the same schedule nonsense. Yared just didn’t have his best day today nor was the setup great on all fronts.
I'd be in shambles if I flew across the country specifically to break a WR, and the one meet of the season that has a different organizer ends up an hour behind schedule, and they won't shuffle events around or anything.
Of course you would be. You’re the softest person that posts here.
Fwiw, I was rooting for the Goose. It is so unlikely that this would have affected his time in any material way.
We’ll hear on Coffee Club: Ollie will bring it up a la Morgan with the wind/cold at Houston. Geordie and Ollie will note Maclean and the OAC women thrived nonetheless. They’ll realize it more of an annoyance than huge thing.
I'd be in shambles if I flew across the country specifically to break a WR, and the one meet of the season that has a different organizer ends up an hour behind schedule, and they won't shuffle events around or anything.
No offense but Heather Maclean just ran 4:17.01 dealing with the same schedule nonsense. Yared just didn’t have his best day today nor was the setup great on all fronts.
Speaking of crazy set ups, if you get a chance, watch the pacer for the women's 1k. Starts late, sprints 20 meters ahead of Sage where she would have completely thrown Sage off if she had followed, then grinds to a halt, impedes Sage's momentum, then drops out at around 320 meters. Just completely fails at all aspects of pacing.
Uhhh...I think JK was in a "RACE" when he broke the WR. Also, if you understand the sport at all, when your considered to one of the fastest runners in the world and are capable of attempting to run a world record, the actual "race" in itself becomes a time trial. So, every (at least 99.9%) of world record attempts are "time trials". Let's drop the time trial bashing, and view it for what it is, simply someone trying to run as fast as he or she can...PERIOD!
I'd be in shambles if I flew across the country specifically to break a WR, and the one meet of the season that has a different organizer ends up an hour behind schedule, and they won't shuffle events around or anything.
No offense but Heather Maclean just ran 4:17.01 dealing with the same schedule nonsense. Yared just didn’t have his best day today nor was the setup great on all fronts.
I disagree. The scheduling issue was the same but they had a totally different start for the men's and women's race. The women's race, they had the pacers with MaClean and the On ladies in the alley on the outside. For the men's race, they had the On guys with the extra pacer on the outside lane of the waterfall with four dudes to their inside and the alley guys on the outside. They had to do a lot of work on that first lap to find lane one. That's not how you set up a world record attempt. He probably wouldn't have gotten there anyway, but I've seen a lot of world record attempts, and I've never seen one set up like that, for good reason.
No offense but Heather Maclean just ran 4:17.01 dealing with the same schedule nonsense. Yared just didn’t have his best day today nor was the setup great on all fronts.
Speaking of crazy set ups, if you get a chance, watch the pacer for the women's 1k. Starts late, sprints 20 meters ahead of Sage where she would have completely thrown Sage off if she had followed, then grinds to a halt, impedes Sage's momentum, then drops out at around 320 meters. Just completely fails at all aspects of pacing.
Oh good God. Are we now complaining again that Sage was impeded? Why is it that she and every other OAc runner that has a bad race comes up with a million excuses. Waiting for Joe K excuse for his dismal half marathon