Alamirew again!!

Holy ----, 7:27 indoors in February. What is this guy going to run outdoors?

And it's streaming live! I wish somebody had posted this link before the 7:27 3K.

http://www.sparkassen-cup.de/aktuell/live.html

bobby e. wrote:

Holy ----, 7:27 indoors in February. What is this guy going to run outdoors?

7:28.

That track in Stuttgart is faster than anything he's going to run on outdoors.

I'm sure it is, but maybe he'll be in better condition in August than in February.

I'm really more interested in his 5000m potential. The WC 5000m looks wide open to me, with Bekele unlikely to compete.

3000m indoors, all-time performers list:

1 7:24.90 Daniel Komen KEN 1 Budapest 6 February 1998

2 7:26.15 Haile Gebrselassie ETH 1 Karlsruhe 25 January 1998

3 7:27.80 Alamirew Yenew ETH 1 Stuttgart 5 February 2011

4 7:28.00 Augustine Choge KEN 2 Stuttgart 5 February 2011

5 7:29.37 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 3 Stuttgart 5 February 2011

6 7:30.51 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 1 Stockholm 20 February 2007

7 7:31.09 Tariku Bekele ETH 1 Stuttgart 2 February 2008

8 7:32.02 Sammy Mutahi KEN 3 Stockholm 10 February 2010

9 7:32.41 Sergio Sanchez ESP 1 Valencia 13 February 2010

10 7:32.43 Bernard Lagat USA 1 Birmingham 17 February 2007

bobby e. wrote:

I'm sure it is, but maybe he'll be in better condition in August than in February.

That means he's going to hold his peak for seven months all the way through the rainy season (APR - AUG) in Kenya?

the way he won was just impressive...

When did I say that? Maybe he'll take some downtime and build back up for an outdoor season. Don't a lot of top runners do that?

Is it *impossible* to run a small PR indoors, and improve on that PR the next summer?

By the way, the men's 800m is about to go off - Kaki vs. Lalang, among others. Link is above.

Nothing's impossible. Ask Gebrselassie.

Alamirew is Ethiopian.

malmo wrote:

That means he's going to hold his peak for seven months all the way through the rainy season (APR - AUG) in Kenya?

Brain lock. Got me there. The rainy season is worse in Addis -- and cooler.

Check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbug5s26Heg

Video of Yenew jogging the last hundred meters of a road race in Europe last fall, realizing Tariku Bekele is closing on him at the last second, and kicking just enough to hold on to the win. Entertaining.

I read that during the last lap of his 7:28 3K in Italy last summer, he had to be exhorted from the infield to quit celebrating and close hard, because the stadium record was still within reach.

Malmo got there first. Of course.

bobby e. wrote:

I'm sure it is, but maybe he'll be in better condition in August than in February.

I'm really more interested in his 5000m potential. The WC 5000m looks wide open to me, with Bekele unlikely to compete.

well alamirew yenew is on the start list for the psd bank meeting in dusseldorf on friday in a race that has yenew, 7:56 steepler paul koech, eliud kipchoge, and galen rupp.

I'm starting to wonder if Komen's "unbreakable" 7:20 is living on borrowed time.

Top 10 of this race :

1. Yenew Alamirew 17:07

2. Tariku Bekele 17:08

3. Abera Kuma 17:22

4. Eliud Kipchoge 17:26

5. Moses Kibet 17:36

6. Moses Masai 17:37

7. Jebesa Fekru 17:47

8. Dennis Massai 17:49

9. Paul Lonyangat 18:11

10. Khalid Choukoud 18:23

http://www.4mijl.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=199

coach d wrote:

I'm starting to wonder if Komen's "unbreakable" 7:20 is living on borrowed time.

Komen can sleep safely.