Kip Keino's race at Mexico City is a Godly performance. Check out conversions of Northern Arizona's track. You will find that the conversion puts Keino's 3:34 around 3:26. Sorry if I mispelled anything, I'm pretty tired
Kip Keino's race at Mexico City is a Godly performance. Check out conversions of Northern Arizona's track. You will find that the conversion puts Keino's 3:34 around 3:26. Sorry if I mispelled anything, I'm pretty tired
Fascinating.
2.26 eh?
So what was his PB at sea level?
No one is arguing that Keino was better on ANY day than Ryun. But on ONE day, I think, he had a better day than Ryun EVER did.
A good analogy is to mountaineers.. Edmund Hillary may not have climbed every high peak in the world, he might not have done the most technically difficult climbs... but he climbed the highest one. First.
Ryun was good, and ran some impressive races, climbed a lot of high peaks. Keino climbed the highest one though.
In the 68 games Ryun came up against a guy who had the freakest of days where everything clicked and he ran what is possibly the single most impressive 1500m race of all time.
Has anyone ever run a remotely similar time at similar altitude?
I recall people being quite impressed when Kiprop ran 3.35 at altitude before the 07 world champs.. so a born and bred altitude man who has a PB of 3.31 couldn't run 3.34 at a lower altitude than Mexico City... fresh!
Keino did it with 21.5km of racing in his legs...
keino had probably 49/50s speed for 400, whereas ryun was probably 46/47s
kip was never going to outkick ryun in a race - he needed to make it hard & brutual, but to do that he needed to be in top shape - only real time he had enough time-off to get into that shape was '68
on modern tracks, keino wouda been probably a <7'30/13'00 guy & that off no full-time training !!!
bear in mind 1 thing - kip was probably greatest athletic talent kenya ever produced, even to current day
Both were incredible. I do like Ryun though. He ran some amazing times and his finishing speed was great.