The last 2 weeks of Caleb were not the best for being at his top in Oslo :
Wed, 28.05 : Flight from Kenya to Portland, by car to Eugene
Thu, 29.05 : 40' easy
Fri, 30.05 : 30' jogging + 4 x 200m in 26" recovery about 3'
Sat, 31.05 : WINNERS PREFONTAINE IN 13:01
Sun, 1.06 : Flight to Kenya
Mon, 2.06 : 40' easy
Tue, 3.06 : 1 hr with short and easy variations of speed
Wed, 4.06 : 50' easy
Thu, 5.06 : HEATS KENYAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (2nd in 13:42.4)
Fri, 6.06 : 50' easy
Sat, 7.06 : KENYAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (2nd in 13:30.45)
Sun, 8.06 : 50' easy
Mon, 9.06 : Flight to Oslo
Tue, 10.06 : 40' easy + 3-4 x 200m in 27"
He is of sure very tired, and with limited energies.
Oslo was not in his previous plan, which in June had one competition only in Ostrava (3000m), but after winning in Eugene there was the possibility to look at winning the Diamond League, so we changed plan. Originally, we didn't think there were heats for 5000m in Nairobi, so we planned one training of medium intensity on 3.06, but at the end we had to change everything, going for easy jogging only, for recovering the tireness of the travels, more than of the competitions.
For Oslo, if everything is ok I see Ethiopian better than Kenyan. May be something better from Longosiwa and Soi, but they lost one day of competition (thinking to be directly allowed to run the final, there was some misunderstanding between AK and some of the athletes running in DL), so they didn't have proper training for the last 10 days before Oslo.
Anyway, this is another important experience for growing for Caleb, not depending on his final result, but on his feeling in this difficult situation.