Jakob injured again (January 28th speculation)

Knutsen1 wrote:

Evidence:

Jakob went to South Africa a few weeks ago but was only there for about a week. Traveling from Norway to South Africa takes roughly 24 hours, so it’s unlikely he would make that trip if he planned such a short stay.

In recent weeks, he has posted several photos of his Coros watch after workouts, but only shows average and maximum heart rate. It’s fairly obvious this data comes from elliptical sessions rather than running.

When Jakob is fit, his social media team usually posts weekly content of him running. That hasn’t happened at all in 2026 so far.

Conclusion: He’s injured.

LarsL11 wrote:

Knutsen1 wrote:

Evidence:

Jakob went to South Africa a few weeks ago but was only there for about a week. Traveling from Norway to South Africa takes roughly 24 hours, so it’s unlikely he would make that trip if he planned such a short stay.

In recent weeks, he has posted several photos of his Coros watch after workouts, but only shows average and maximum heart rate. It’s fairly obvious this data comes from elliptical sessions rather than running.

When Jakob is fit, his social media team usually posts weekly content of him running. That hasn’t happened at all in 2026 so far.

Conclusion: He’s injured.

In the snap before he has a picture of several threadmills and an elliptical. The elliptical is the only one that is powered on. Noooo.

Knutsen1 wrote:

LarsL11 wrote:

In the snap before he has a picture of several threadmills and an elliptical. The elliptical is the only one that is powered on. Noooo.

I also noticed that it was only sweat drops beside the elliptical...

From the shadows wrote:

Jakob, peak WR shape: injured soon after.

Josh Kerr: same

Josh Hoey (now): same

Conner Mantz (non African marathon record shape): same.

Looks a bit like Barshim when he was in top shape, close to break the WR and got injured.

When you are at this level of fitness, these days, you always are very close to injury.

And the Ingebrigtsen brothers have an history of having a string of injuries terminating their high level careers sooner than expected.

Damn! I still wish he tries at least once to break the 5000m WR...

Knutsen1 wrote:

Evidence:

Jakob went to South Africa a few weeks ago but was only there for about a week. Traveling from Norway to South Africa takes roughly 24 hours, so it’s unlikely he would make that trip if he planned such a short stay.

In recent weeks, he has posted several photos of his Coros watch after workouts, but only shows average and maximum heart rate. It’s fairly obvious this data comes from elliptical sessions rather than running.

When Jakob is fit, his social media team usually posts weekly content of him running. That hasn’t happened at all in 2026 so far.

Conclusion: He’s injured.

Goethe wrote:

Makes sense. The human body can only handle so much and Jakob has been hammering it in training for well over a decade. It was going to catch up with him eventually. We will never see 2021-2024 Jakob Ingebrigtsen ever again. He had a great career. If I had to rank him in a greatest distance runners of all time list, I would place him around 15th.

snowflakes wrote:

Goethe wrote:

Makes sense. The human body can only handle so much and Jakob has been hammering it in training for well over a decade. It was going to catch up with him eventually. We will never see 2021-2024 Jakob Ingebrigtsen ever again. He had a great career. If I had to rank him in a greatest distance runners of all time list, I would place him around 15th.

He indeed did. If this is the end, I’d rank him around 10th. Can’t put him above runners like Farah, Coe, Gebreselassie, Kipchoge, El G, and Bekele. Zatopek and Snell are dated but likely greater. Hard to put him above morceli but that’s it.