Alexa Efraimson takes on the East Africans in the Zurich 3K Thursday

Doubt the record will go down, but Dibaba and Cherono might if they violate Efraimson's safe space on the track.

I think you're talking about Lausanne; Zurich is later.

Old Oregonian wrote:

I think you're talking about Lausanne; Zurich is later.

Impressive that she managed to get in a Diamond league event. She'll get smoked, but it's good experience.

How can they make every single entrant but one be from Kenya and Ethiopia? And how is Efraimson going to compete with all of those 8:40 and under (quite a few sub 8:30 or even 8:20) runners?

jjjjjj wrote:

How can they make every single entrant but one be from Kenya and Ethiopia? And how is Efraimson going to compete with all of those 8:40 and under (quite a few sub 8:30 or even 8:20) runners?

I dunno but I'm totally psyched to see such a fast field. This is going to be epic. Maybe other runners needed some downtime after the olympics or something.

Efraison's 3K PR is 9:23.24 from April 2014. She should crush that easily especailly with this field. How fit is she right now?

Yes! wrote:

Efraison's 3K PR is 9:23.24 from April 2014. She should crush that easily especailly with this field. How fit is she right now?

Yes, but she ran about 9:00 indoors, I believe.

Old Oregonian wrote:

Yes! wrote:

Efraison's 3K PR is 9:23.24 from April 2014. She should crush that easily especailly with this field. How fit is she right now?

Yes, but she ran about 9:00 indoors, I believe.

TrackBot! PRs Alexa Efraimson

She's very close. Mary Cain was very close as well as a junior but she never got it. If she doesn't have a bad race it's hard to imagine it not going down.

PRs for Alexa Efraimson:

800 m (Outdoor): 2:00.99 on 15 May 2016

800 m (Indoor): 2:05.18 on 7 Feb 2015

1000 m (Indoor): 2:41.23 on 1 Mar 2015

1500 m (Outdoor): 4:03.39 =NJR =AJR on 29 May 2015

1500 m (Indoor): 4:09.20+ on 20 Feb 2016

One Mile (Outdoor): 4:42.41 on 9 Jun 2012

One Mile (Indoor): 4:28.91 on 20 Feb 2016

3000 m (Indoor): 9:00.16 OT on 1 Feb 2014

5000 m (Outdoor): 16:09.44 on 2 May 2015

5 km (Outdoor): 16:08 on 27 Nov 2014

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Holy smokes she's quite possibly the only clean woman in this field!

Cute as a button too.

I doubt she'd enter unless she felt she could run fast!

Haven't heard or seen anything from her since the Trials.

But if she's in her best shape (capable of a 4:03 in the 1500), then I'd say she could run in the low 8:40's!

This is based on the "slowdown rate" idea.

Add 15 to 20 seconds to one's 1500 time, then double it.

So her 4:03 plus 15 secs = 8:36 (2 X 4:18).

If it's 20 secs, then it's 8:46 (2 X 4:23).

There's plenty of examples to prove this theory!

Could she be a rabbit? That makes the most sense to me as this isn't some mediocre diamond league field like sometimes happens. This race will be sub 8:30 and possibly sub 8:20.

Alexa didn't run well at World Juniors sorry. I agree that she is the rabbit because she doesn't have the credentials for a race of this caliber.

run with the wom wrote:

Alexa didn't run well at World Juniors sorry. I agree that she is the rabbit because she doesn't have the credentials for a race of this caliber.

I would doubt that. According to the meeting website, rabbits Mary Kuria and Lydia Wafula from Kenya will be targeting 2:43 for 1000m and 4:05 at 1500m, which seems like odd pacing. Maybe Dibaba plans something.

Who?

She could be running alone if the pace goes out at 2:50 for the first kilo.

In another thread someone said GD has asked to go out in 2:43-4.

DFL right now in the middle of the race

And finished DFL