trojanman wrote:
I think he's just getting ready to crush a 5000 later this year.
I agree. A 3:50 Mile is stellar, but is still a ways off from 3:46. This is just speed training for a blazing 5000m. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw a sub-12:50 performance from Rupp this year.
Student wrote:By way of comparison, Gebrselassie ran 3:31.76 on an 11-lap-to-the-mile indoor track 15 years ago. That's substantially faster than Rupp's performance
i doubt it
he ran it in stuttgart
germans don't do imperial distance tracks indoors
it was a 200m track
Craig M wrote:
He could get close. Do you remember when Craig Mottrom ran 3:48.98 outdoors in 2007? I believe Webb was right in front of him in that race. If Mottrom could run 3:48, I think Rupp could do 3:47 high outdoors.
Choplogic.
RRRR wrote:
Everyone keeps talking about the 3:50 mile indoors, but shouldn't there be a conversion to outdoors from a 200m indoor banked track with twice the number of turns?
Only then can you really start the conversation of whether or not Rupp has a shot at Webb's record. To convert a 3:50 mile indoors to a 3:33 1500m outdoors is imbecile.
You'll want to learn how to write in sentences if you're going to try to use the word imbecile.
What would you convert 3:50.9 (200m track, banked) to?
A 3:33.6-3:33.9 1500 is supported by multiple calculators and tables (all of which give slightly different results so probably aren't using exactly the same formula).
I'm not really interested in a conversion to the outdoor mile. It's a nice historical distance and I like that it's still run, but it is not a real event in that it is rarely contested on the world level. Therefore comparisons become meaningless. You could say 3:49.5 or 3:50.5, and I'd say run a real event and tell us about it.