counting times wrote:
On the all-time list one hundred thirty five woman have run under 15:00 no American has gone sub 14:44. Not a lot of Americans sitting at the big girls table.
As for running in the lead pack in a timetrial type race like this was. It's a good plan if you are looking to get the AR at 3,000m.
excuse misstated time.
How many African newcomers do you see competing by going with the leaders at 5000m, 10000m, 1/2 marathon, and marathon. Even the young Kenyan women have more guts then our senior women and men. In the last two years I can count 3 races where an unknown went out with the leaders at World X-Country, World Jr Outdoors, and World Youth only to crumble and collapse at the end. They went to compete not knowing their capabilities, unafriad of looking bad, and left it all on the battle field!
Americans will never dominate distance running again until they take off their stop watches or until more Africans become American citizens. Point blank and that's the truth.
Not 135 women, 135 TIMES... some women have run under multiple times like Defar and Dibaba.
OneTwoPunch wrote:
Americans will never dominate distance running again until they take off their stop watches or until more Africans become American citizens. Point blank and that's the truth.
You clearly don't know much about running. How is anyone surprised when a 14:12 5000m runner puts 15 seconds on a 14:45 5000m runner in the 2nd half of a race? Putting down the stop watch wouldn't have changed that.
Remember Flanagan trying to put it to Defar at the Boston Indoor Games a few years back? Remember the Oly bronze medal? Remember the bronze at world xc?
If Flanagan could have stayed with the leaders, she would have. She didn't tactically decide to hang back and try to break the AR by a lesser margin. She was running faster than PR pace and got dropped.
rojo wrote:
Take Galen Rupp for example. His pb is 13:07. Let's say he goes out for the 1600 on Sunday at a pace that is 34 seconds faster than his pb. Guess what his 1600 split would be.
If you remember his freshman year he went out in 4:10 for the first 1600 in a 5k. He then died a painful death and finished in 13:44? I remember the same type of running minds like on this thread like trialswatcher (formerally king99) saying that's all he was capable of because that's what he ran. Obviously he went out too hard and died.
See my correction thats number of performers under 15 flat which has been bettered 706 times.
If you are going to correct please correct correctly.
[Quote}Women's 5K Stats From The Paris DL
(from K. Ken Nakamura)
1) Hiwot Ayalew became the 134th and Azemra Gebru became the 135th women to crack 15 minutes for the 5000m.
2) Ethiopia now has 22 sub-15 runners closing the gap on KEN who has 27 such runners.
2) Meseret Defar run the fastest 5000m as a 27 years old. Previous record for the 27 years old was 14:31.52 by Elvan Abeylegesse.
3) And thus Meseret Defar has run the fastest 5000m as a 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 years old.
4) Meseret Defar ran 8th sub-14:30 5000m of her career. She is way ahead of the runners with second most
sub-14:30 5000m; Tirunesh Dibaba and Vivian Cheruiyot both have 3 sub-14:30 5000m.
5) For Defar, 2011 is the 7th season she has cracked 14:30 for the 5000m.
Her other sub-14:30 seasons are 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 (indoor), 2010 (indoor) and now 2011.
6) Meseret Defar ran 37th sub-15 minutes 5000m. She now has three more than her arch rival Tirunesh Dibaba.
http://trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/display-article?arId=60550
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