New 3k WR Defar 8:23.72

Wow! Crazy go nuts.

Her countrywoman Melkamu was right behind in 8:23.74!

Also cred to the pacemaker, the female version of Martin Keino. Perfect sense of pace as always by Olga K from Russia.

Pavey 8.31.50

she paced nearly all the major womens 1500's last year where she did an awesome job getting many of these races to 3:55-59. she is a metronome. definitely one of the best female rabbits in recent years

Unbelievable run by the Ethiopians. Surely worth 8.17/8.18 outdoors. Great run by Pavey new British Record by 3 seconds. Who knows, in the summer Radcliffes outdoor record (8.22) could come under threat.

I saw Meselech melkamu at the addis abeba xc champs in december and she looked like a different person. This is a HUGE! step for her. Unblvl run by her.

We expect it from mezzy because she can run 8:30 tired and sick,,, but melkamu's performance is unreal.

Ethiopia will defn finish 1,2,3,4, in the 5000 with

Now... the question is who will make the ethiopian 5000 meter team.

2 Dibaba's, Burka, Melkamu and Defar..5 great runners and everyone has to be on there game.

My sense is that E Dib will move to the 10k to secure a spot.

Gio wrote:

Wow! Crazy go nuts.

AWESOME assessment!

is it that unreal? she got the bronze in BOTH the long and short world cross champs last year in japan. and finished fourth in the 2005 world champs 5000m. the girl is legit. just overshadowed by people even more unreal.

Just saw the splits 2.48,2.50, 2.44.8 for the last km.

Melkamu is in a different skin this year. She looks ripped and she's worked on her speed. She looks like she has hit the Gym

She is from my home town.. Bahir Dar.. which is the source of the Nile River where 80% of the niles water come from.

Unlike T Dibaba Kenny B and Haile and almost every other ethiopian runner who is from Asela.

Holy shit. Four more seconds that Shalane has to drop, now.

Who is this rabbit, and what are her PRs?

with all that talent in ethiopia i wonder if/when they will branch out to the 1500 and steeplechase, i think adere can get the steeple record if she wants as she is tall with 824 3k speed.

Olga Komyagina:

800 м - 2.04,16

1000 м - 2.36,76

1500 м - 4.02,32

3000 м - 8.35,67

Actually Melkamu managed to hang on for a while to Dibaba and Defar during a meet this past summer in one of these nasty 57-58s last laps. Suggesting her top end speed was just as good but lacked the speed endurance to be able to sprint the whole lap.

awesome

Just saw the race. looked like melkamu made a poor decision on her finish. She gave up to easily. Defar is not even in shape and she can break a wr.

We will see the fist sub 8;20 this year... outside of the uneal 8:08