In addition, Florian Bremm took down Nordas FTW in the Trong 3k last week. What's in the water in Germany these days?
In addition, Florian Bremm took down Nordas FTW in the Trong 3k last week. What's in the water in Germany these days?
Stepped up their game due to embarrassment that Sam parsons was anywhere close to any German records.
Waiting for poster ny_city_vibes who is ROBERT FARKEN to start Posting about HIMSELF! in 3. 2. 1.
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Sam Parsons telling all the german folk to wake up or some non-Germany based athletes gonna take all the cred
I wouldn't say there's much of a correlation between them. Different athletes, different groups, different coaches, different events. However, both Flo Bremm and Robert Farken trained in a pretty standard double-threshold system the last few years (which Farken has now switched up with his move to OAC of course). Ruppert upped his volume a lot this year too, but "only" to around 155km/week (as opposed to often above 180, at least for Bremm). So maybe milage really is the key.
It only takes 10 seconds to spread a rumor on the internet, but everyone has to live with it. In any case, I'm not sure whether you can call a runner with 3:32/1500m and 1:45/800 a random guy. Especially when he's been putting everything on the line since 2024, moved to America, and is trying to get the best out of himself with a well-known coach. Are you from America? Ask where he trains!
Ruppert is known as a talent. He also completely changed his training and perhaps had the run of his life. He and his coach were hoping for 8:06, but now it's 8:01. After many years, finally two good runners.
The new kanye west music is as powerful as epo to the German people.
The re-emergence of East Germany
Additional thought: Mentality. When you see someone in your peer group performing well, maybe you think "If he can do it, why shouldn't I be able to do the same?". Even if it's all happening subconsciously, maybe Farken seeing Rupperts time enabled him to really attack a top finish in the Diamond League as well. Same goes for Bremm: If Ruppert can beat all these guys, why shouldn't I beat Nordas? I also expect Karl Bebendorf to make another jump this year, just because he sees Ruppert as his rival and will therefore (maybe subconsciously) level up his mentality and his goals as well.
Bremm and Farken aren't random, and their results are well within the boundaries of a hypothetical confidence interval.
Ruppert is the one with the insane outlier performance.
#ShitAmericansSay
Fritz vibes wrote:
It only takes 10 seconds to spread a rumor on the internet, but everyone has to live with it. In any case, I'm not sure whether you can call a runner with 3:32/1500m and 1:45/800 a random guy.
Are you from America? Ask where he trains!
LMAO, Germans continue to lose it over this 'random' phrase
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=13546366&page=2
The 1500 record has improved.78 seconds in 25 years. Not exactly surprising the record finally got broken
They are training like the norwegians nowadays (they tend to take the lactate in the ear instead of the finger though)
What's random about it? The Germans are plotting their comeback after being defeated in the wars.
They always want to be the best. Best cars, best soccer team, best army, best everything. They always fail, but the rest of the world has to work pretty hard to beat them.
Jakob is technically a German-adjacent, so they arguably already have him.
Sam MF Parsons
They must be on same dope that Hocker, Rooks, Bryce Hoppel were on at the OG.
Koko just ran 30:46 road German record.
Next record to be broken 5000 m. Sam Parsons, get it!
ny_city_vibes wrote:
Koko just ran 30:46 road German record.
Next record to be broken 5000 m. Sam Parsons, get it!
Tell us about ROBERT FARKEN, Robert.