Jacob Ingebrigtsen 14y 3.49.71 on 1,500m

tudman wrote:

Chasing records is always death to the young and talented. Unfortunately, I think the writing's on the wall for this kid and it says, "shooting star."

That's usually the case for youngsters like this. At least we know his age is legit, unlike some E. African "kids" we've all seen - like the balding "15 year old" Eritrean here who forgot to remove his wedding ring before the race lol:

As a 12 year old boy Jacob ran 70 km/week, this winter he averaged about 90 km/week. As someone mentioned, the Ingebrigtsens believe in interval training. They run a lot on their treadmills. Jacob does several workouts of aquajogg during winter training.

After he ran 8:25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etg-HuXoa9k), he said that in an optimal race he could come close to 8:10. You see in the video that he's cruising into 8:25.

Here's a video of him, running 1:53:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HLbHjwbsw

Last lap of 58 sec, last 200 of 27 sec

Their are 5 Ingebrigstenbrothers:

Henrik

Filip

Jacob

Kristoffer

Martin Jogvan

He was 14th at PreNats in 2010.

Howard Sternest wrote:

tudman wrote:

Chasing records is always death to the young and talented. Unfortunately, I think the writing's on the wall for this kid and it says, "shooting star."

That's usually the case for youngsters like this. At least we know his age is legit, unlike some E. African "kids" we've all seen - like the balding "15 year old" Eritrean here who forgot to remove his wedding ring before the race lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDxzvG2RrA

For interest sake, Steve Cram ran the following:

14: 4:13.9

15: 4:07.2

16: 3:47.7

17: 3:40.09 + 3:57.43 mile

18: 3:42.5 + 3:57.03 mile

19: 3:34.74 + 3:53.8 mile

He ran there in the Fall of 2010, only ran a few races and DNFed at Big 12s if i recall. It wasn't a good fit. The coach wasn't great for what he needed, or at all for that matter. Heard they changed the entire team's training to fit Henrik's. Losing him was the last straw with Henry.

I don't believe any family has had three sub-4 milers (including even father). To have three and potentially more would be pretty phenomenal.

flojo22232 wrote:

He ran there in the Fall of 2010, only ran a few races and DNFed at Big 12s if i recall. It wasn't a good fit. The coach wasn't great for what he needed, or at all for that matter. Heard they changed the entire team's training to fit Henrik's. Losing him was the last straw with Henry.

He also had a pretty bad long lasting and serious virus of some sorts and everyone was surprised when he managed to run 3.39 that year at Bislett Games.

That was before he got to A&M. He dealt with some leg injury of some sort at A&M. Knew before Christmas that he wasn't coming back.

He got 16th at Chile Pepper with a 30:00.69 and dropped out before mile 2 at big 12s

Nice bump after seeing 14 year old girl records broken in 5000m

Anyone know what ever happened to this kid??

Some early developer. This might have been the only thread he ever was mentioned?

Yup, the writing is on the wall for this shooting star. Ok, so he got a bunch of records and medals, but ok, so now after this last record that's it. He's peaked. No more records. No more medals. I'll revise soon if necessary.

Well this comment aged well. (Quoted comment about Jakob from 7 years ago)