How fast coud Geoffrey run a 10000m ?

26:38

ventolin^3 wrote:

i don't usually ask this sorta question about M'ers, but with kenya's lack of medals in 10k recently, it does really seem their 10k talent is on the roads

so :

if he'd run a 10k track today instead in brussels with pacers to 5k

how fast ?

those sorta track predictions just don't really work well for M'ers

( albeit it does work for paula ! )

i'll have a go later, but only paula has really been near "perfect" machine for 5k/10k/M simultaneously ( in '02 )

I'd guess about a 26:40, probably a similar profile to wanjiru.

With his M training: 26:40. With 10k specific training: 26:15

I'm going to mashup Nutella1's post and give you the correct answer wrote:

With 10k specific training: 26:40

nsfts wrote:

I'm going to mashup Nutella1's post and give you the correct answer wrote:

With 10k specific training: 26:40

Seriously? You think that guy is just slightly better than Galen Rupp?

geb was running 26'29/26'41 in early/mid '00s when his M best at the time was 2"05'56

27:05.6 on the track.

26:03.2 on a downhill course in Boston.

ventolin^3 wrote:

geb was running 26'29/26'41 in early/mid '00s when his M best at the time was 2"05'56

I'm guessing Mutai doesn't have 3:31i in him though.

that was in '98, not '03 - '06

if i had to hazard a guess for him in composite '03/'04 when he was going 12'55 ( bullsh!t )/26'29 ( more like it ), i'd start with

~ 53.0 / 1'50.5 -> 3'34.9 , 7'26.6 , 12'45.0 , 26'26.3

he was likely no better than 3'34 back then, didn't run 3ks anymore & his 5k being only 12'55 was because of him no longer making record attempts but in races with kennster/chebbi where he tried to beat them with a non-existent kick - he couda still gone well below 12'50 back then, but it wouda been embarassing getting hammered by ~ 10s by kennster - better to make it look good by losing in a sprint finish & dredge up some sympathy