Grant Fisher is past his prime

He's prime has passed him by, Grant is definitely someone who is past his prime. Or maybe not, I just wanted to make a grammar point. I thought he ran a tactically not great race.

Eh, who knows? Seems like it wasn't his day. He said in an interview after he wanted to push the pace but ran his own wheels off.

This place is extremely fickle with such a short memory. Fisher is perfectly fine. Long season that started with him outkicking hocker indoors then GST then USA’s and now Tokyo. Time for a rest.

He set his world records this year, moran. Or did that news get PASSED you?

Indoor*

Looks like you just passed your gas.

Not past his prime but it seems the effect of the Schumacher training is wearing off.

I don't expect his arrogant HS coach will figure this out, so we might never see last years Fisher ever again.

Passing your prime would be a good thing.

Writing terribly showing your idiocy is your thing.

LRC is like watching a peewee soccer game. All those little kids running to the ball at the same time. Its hilarious.

I love how you people over-react to the results of one meet. Grant didn’t even run that badly. He was just outperformed by guys who got it right on the right day. This is the same Grant that outkicked Cole Hocker to break the WR in the indoor 3k just this past winter. He closed a 5k in 51 to win one of the GSL races. He was second place in Zurich and Lausanne DLs and barely lost both of them. These are all recent results and yet, he’s done? 28 is not that old for a distance runner anymore. Doped or not, Shelby just got 4th at 32. Gebrhiwet ran 12:36 at age 30. Grant could easily still medal or even win in ‘27 or ‘28. You are making all kinds of assumptions.

It is much easier. It's full of idiots and trolls.

This place is so bad that the owners and mods are all trolls.

When was his prime? He was supposed to be the GOAT American distance runner and now Hocker's stealing his thunder.

Hard to be a top distance runner ever if you don't run the 10k.

I wish Grant would move to the marathon before he's too far past his prime.

A WR is a WR. How many do you have?

In a tactical race, Grant’s not as competitive as when it’s honest. We’ve seen that at the national level (albeit at USAs that means he’s not winning but still top 3), so why would worlds be any different? 10k was extremely slow. If I told you the 10k would be won in 28:55, are you picking grant for a medal? I’m not.

5k wasn’t purely tactical but with that many guys in the lead pack with a lap to go, do you really expect him to finish top 3? If I told you the list of guys there at the bell (Young, Mehary, Gressier, Hocker, Robinson, etc.) are you picking him for top 3? I’m not

Grant’s best shot at medals is when the pace is fairly fast, the lead pack at the bell is 4-5 guys, and he can out kick guys who are out of gas for medals. We saw that in Paris. Not in Tokyo. Has nothing to do with him being past his prime.

The conditions meant that the 10k was always gonna be a slow tactical affair.

This is the tactical mistake he made. He needs to ditch the notion that he can be in peak fitness all year long. Sure he (almost) got paid, but at what cost in the end? The indoor version of him probably had a higher likelihood of medaling here. He then held on for GST and Pre. A long year indeed with DL races and USAs. It's pretty clear that his base fitness was slowly being eroded away for months.