ventolin^3 wrote:
this is best kick ever in a 800 race
ereng that day coud be upgraded by 1.5 - 2s for indoors/outdoors & having no effective drafting whole race, another 0.5s
he probably was capable of, outdoors, in paced to bell ~
1'41.5 - 1'42.1
Only you could take a 1:44.8 even paced run and turn it into a 1:41 performance.
I can't believe you actually think half the things you come up with are even remotely possible.
For a start his last 200 was 25.7 and his last 100 was 13.1. That isn't a kick. He's actually slowing down in the second half of the last lap. A kick is when you speed up. A final kick is at the end of the race. Ereng was slowing down at the end of the race, but the rest of the field were slowing down at a faster rate. So it doesn't even qualify for this thread which is about a 'final kick'.
There have been dozens of races where the last 100 has been covered faster than 13.1.
He didn't run 6m wide. More like 3m in total. He was close to inside of lane 1 for first 3 laps. On the last lap he ran both curves on outside of lane 1 but spent hardly any time in lane 2. You do realise this is an indoor 200m track and not 400m?
If he'd run a 400 track curve on outside edge of lane 1 that would have been 3m. The 2 curves on the 200 track are half as long as the outdoor ones, meaning the 2 curves together are equivalent to running the last bend wide on a 400 track. To run 6m extra on just one curve of a 400 track he'd have to run it practically all in lane 3.
His last 2 x 100m were 12.6/13.1.
He ran about 1.5m extra on each of those 100 splits, so that works out more like 12.4/ 12.9 for 25.3 in a 1:44.4.
There is no way that is worth anything approaching 1:42 let alone 1:41.
Ereng had plenty of paced attempts outdoors in 88 & 89 and couldn't break 1:43.