No indoors, the three Grand Slams, London DL, and then a glorified workout at British Champs. They’ve gotten it right in the past, but let’s see how this pans out…
No indoors, the three Grand Slams, London DL, and then a glorified workout at British Champs. They’ve gotten it right in the past, but let’s see how this pans out…
He tried to run indoors, but was sick and injured for Millrose. Then hung it up to prep for GST
One (real) race from June 1 to September 14 doesn’t seem weird to you? I have honestly not heard of any other runners structuring a season in which they were healthy in that way; thus, my description of it as weird (unusual).
No indoors, the three Grand Slams, London DL, and then a glorified workout at British Champs. They’ve gotten it right in the past, but let’s see how this pans out…
I think you raise a valid observation. His outdoor season kicked off with a lot of racing at GST, but has evolved back into a typical Josh Kerr season e.g. limited races.
My concern about the top guys like Kerr, Hocker, Laros and Nuguse (if he makes it), is that none of them have laid down a fast 1500m this season to say they can hang with the likes of 3:27 guys Koech and Habz.
No indoors, the three Grand Slams, London DL, and then a glorified workout at British Champs. They’ve gotten it right in the past, but let’s see how this pans out…
I think you raise a valid observation. His outdoor season kicked off with a lot of racing at GST, but has evolved back into a typical Josh Kerr season e.g. limited races.
My concern about the top guys like Kerr, Hocker, Laros and Nuguse (if he makes it), is that none of them have laid down a fast 1500m this season to say they can hang with the likes of 3:27 guys Koech and Habz.
3:45 mile for Laros and Nuguse is still pretty fast. Hocker and Kerr have also shown that they can hang with the best and outkick them at world finals(sometimes)
One (real) race from June 1 to September 14 doesn’t seem weird to you? I have honestly not heard of any other runners structuring a season in which they were healthy in that way; thus, my description of it as weird (unusual).
One (real) race from June 1 to September 14 doesn’t seem weird to you? I have honestly not heard of any other runners structuring a season in which they were healthy in that way; thus, my description of it as weird (unusual).
I don't know why you are surprised, this is classic Josh Kerr. Afraid of his competition because he will likely lose. Puts all his cards on one race and got lucky once.
One (real) race from June 1 to September 14 doesn’t seem weird to you? I have honestly not heard of any other runners structuring a season in which they were healthy in that way; thus, my description of it as weird (unusual).
I don't know why you are surprised, this is classic Josh Kerr. Afraid of his competition because he will likely lose. Puts all his cards on one race and got lucky once.
He is human and not doped, therefore cannot race at his best week in and week out like Ingebrigsten. Hocker is in the same boat. It's not normal, even for an elite athlete to be able to race at their best for so long. Jacob is King of this, and Nuguse is very good too, but even he couldn't make the US team despite being insanely fit all year.
I don't know why you are surprised, this is classic Josh Kerr. Afraid of his competition because he will likely lose. Puts all his cards on one race and got lucky once.
He is human and not doped, therefore cannot race at his best week in and week out like Ingebrigsten. Hocker is in the same boat. It's not normal, even for an elite athlete to be able to race at their best for so long. Jacob is King of this, and Nuguse is very good too, but even he couldn't make the US team despite being insanely fit all year.
Look, you can go on and on with these weird justifications, but would you really ever proscribe a school, university, club or professional runner to go the 3.5 months of their primary racing season with only one competition?
One (real) race from June 1 to September 14 doesn’t seem weird to you? I have honestly not heard of any other runners structuring a season in which they were healthy in that way; thus, my description of it as weird (unusual).
To be fair, Kerr raced on June 1st, which was the second day of a back-to-back. Makes sense for him to take a break after that effort. He was slated to run four weeks later at GST LA, but that meet got cancelled.
I think a valid criticism would be to say he should have entered Pre after the GST LA cancellation, but he had the London DL two weeks after Pre and decided to focus on that commitment. After running the 5k at the UK championships on August 3rd, I think it would have been sensible for him to do the Silesia DL on August 16th. That would have given him four weeks for his final preparation for Tokyo. But it seems he prefers to have more time than that. I suspect part of it is mind games and not wanting to show his cards too close to the global championships, but that's just a guess.
Here is how this year's timing in between his last 1500m/mile race and the first round of the global championship 1500m compares to the previous two years:
2023: 7 weeks + 1 day (last 1500m race on June 30, first round of WC on August 19)
2024: almost 10 weeks (last mile race on May 25, first round of OG on August 2)
2025: 8 weeks + 1 day (last 1500m on July 19, first round of WC on September 14)
This year's timing is in line with the two previous years, which worked out very well for him.
I don't know why you are surprised, this is classic Josh Kerr. Afraid of his competition because he will likely lose. Puts all his cards on one race and got lucky once.
He also has Olympic silver and bronze medals, and a world indoor gold, beating Nuguse and Selemon Barega to do it.
I don’t much like Josh Kerr, but he has regularly succeeded in global championships.