Centro goes 4:05, 4:01, 3:57 in 3 x mile workout

I'd been wanting to raise this one for awhile Jamin, when I had watched Centro in real time it looked like he over strides. The funny thing is that I was told that I was running the same by a famous doctor/coach and I have sorted of corrected this to have a shorter more consistent stride.

Not impressed by the workout. Let me see a fast 5k out of Centro.

ugh... sigh. ummm. nope wrote:

no it's not. not at all.

because it's not as impressive and it doesn't scale to infinity and needs to scale to human limits, because your last mile wasn't 3:57

are you equating it to some slow dude running 8:35, 8:31, 8:27?!

i love numbers wrote:

That would be like me going 4:35, 4:31, 4:27.

Very tough, but very doable. Cool workout.

5:00, 4:59, 4:58??? Rates and TBH

wowza wrote:

This is insane.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNximWUBown/?taken-by=mgcentro

Im not so sure about insane bt what nobody is talking about, this is not a milers workout, its a 5k type of workout. The dude is trying to race longer!

Like his dad, like Marty Liquori ,eamonn coghaln,its time to step up to 5K.

I think you're probably more of an endurance type. There was a stage, where I went 5:03; 5:03; 4:58 and at that point couldn't break 16:00 for 5k any more.

He said he is going for some times this year, and I assume the 3000 record indoors is in play.

7:30 16 Rupp

Skepticle wrote:

He said he is going for some times this year, and I assume the 3000 record indoors is in play.

Okay calm down wrote:

Not impressed by the workout. Let me see a fast 5k out of Centro.

I'm not impressed by anyone who's mind-numbingly brilliant at what he does, if he doesn't run the greatest workout ever. Centro, you disappoint me, an armchair fan. Hey, my 5:00-on-the-nose mile in high school -- now THAT was impressive. But a 4:05, then a 4:01, then a 3:57 for the Olympic champ? NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!!! You're NOTHING, Centro!! You'd better jump up to the 5k, and soon, because those shamefully show workout repeats indicate that your miling days are GONE!!

Slow Moe wrote:

Okay calm down wrote:

Not impressed by the workout. Let me see a fast 5k out of Centro.

I'm not impressed by anyone who's mind-numbingly brilliant at what he does, if he doesn't run the greatest workout ever. Centro, you disappoint me, an armchair fan. Hey, my 5:00-on-the-nose mile in high school -- now THAT was impressive. But a 4:05, then a 4:01, then a 3:57 for the Olympic champ? NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!!! You're NOTHING, Centro!! You'd better jump up to the 5k, and soon, because those shamefully show workout repeats indicate that your miling days are GONE!!

Centro is sort of embarrassed by the fact that his father (Senior Centro) still has a faster 5K PR than tiny Junior Centro. Little tiny junior centro is going to try to fix this horrible situation sometime in 2017…maybe.

Senior Centro can be seen in this video running his US record of 13:12.91.

(Albuterol Salazar is the guy who has the exact same form as Bekele in the video. Salazar is setting the pace...with his perfect form…and then he gets obliterated by Senior Centro.

That was a fun race for Alberto.

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800m 1:44.62 New York (USA) 13.06.2015

800m ind. 1:47.82 Albuquerque (USA) 03.03.2013

1000m 2:16.67 Lausanne (SUI) 25.08.2016

1000m ind. 2:17.00 Boston (USA) 07.02.2015

1500m 3:30.40 Monaco (MON) 17.07.2015

1500m ind. 3:35.91 New York (USA) 20.02.2016

Mile 3:50.53 Eugene (USA) 31.05.2014

Mile ind. 3:50.63 New York (USA) 20.02.2016

3000m 8:20.09 Philadelphia (USA) 28.04.2006

3000m ind. 7:40.74 Portland (USA) 05.02.2016

2 Miles 8:41.55 Greensboro (USA) 15.06.2007

5000m 13:20.06 Palo Alto (USA) 04.05.2014

Mile Road 4:03.29 Des Moines (USA) 21.04.2015

Mile Road 3:49.5h New York (USA) 03.09.2016

5 km Road 14:04 Providence (USA) 21.09.2014

10 km Road 30:05 Mesa (USA) 24.11.2011

He is 28 will he better any of these PRs?

With any luck, he should be able to best a few of those. Given the fast that he will compete a number of times this coming year and he was just olympic champion, I'm not sure why thats even a question.

I look forward to seeing what young jenkins has to offer. Many are quick to forget his upset victory at Fifth Avenue. I wonder if we are witnessing the next great american miler in Jenkins. The 5K strength to go the rounds with the wheels to hold it down in a mile.

I'm guessing there are a few pro runners rolling their eyes at that one but Jenkins is a 3:35 man with unproven under distance legs. How few times in recent years has he even attempted to run a quick mile/1500?

Many won't recall his recent 3:42 victory over chelimo and blankenship indoors -

Blankenship went on to make the US team in the 1500 a few weeks later. Why would anyone doubt Jenkins wouldn't be even better after a pair of rounds given his higher 5K fitness

Centro only beat him in one of the slowest 1500m races EVER. The commentators called it "pedestrian". Kiprop owns the DL record for the fastest 1500m in 3:26:xx, so he's a faster runner than Centro, but can't win tactical races. Kiprop could probably do a faster workout.

Huskiez wrote:

Completely made up. I can't believe so many of you are so gullible.

They did 800m repeats. Multiple people were there and saw it. Completely fabricated to make people freak out, scare rivals and get attention/get people talking.

I can second this. But it was fun watching everyone freak out

alert alert wrote:

Many won't recall his recent 3:42 victory over chelimo and blankenship indoors -

Paul Chelimo!

HardLoper wrote:

Interesting, why are they training at UW?

NOP is competing at Dempsey this weekend

Impressive = yes, insane = no

I recall reading somewhere Komen did 4x1600 averaging 4 minutes; I don't recall the amount of rest. Guys that are really good, can run amazing times in meets, obviously they can run amazing times in practice as well.

TrackCoach wrote:

Impressive = yes, insane = no

I recall reading somewhere Komen did 4x1600 averaging 4 minutes; I don't recall the amount of rest. Guys that are really good, can run amazing times in meets, obviously they can run amazing times in practice as well.

Are you certain that wasn't Shaheen you're referencing?