How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
Running start and standing start are not the same thing.
Cefhjhjhjefhj wrote:
How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
Faith Kipyegon in the Olympic 1500m
Seriously mate? wrote:
Running start and standing start are not the same thing.
You're right, that is only worth a 2:09 actually. HUGE difference!
Seriously mate? wrote:
Running start and standing start are not the same thing.
This is such a stupid argument. A running start saves you a meaningless fraction of a second over starting from rest in an 800. It takes about 5 steps to get up from 0 to 800 speed.
Cefhjhjhjefhj wrote:
How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
However, his best time dates from 2015 when he was 17.
Kerr is in shape to run 1:46
Training gets you faster, not racing
Again with this? wrote:
Seriously mate? wrote:Running start and standing start are not the same thing.
This is such a stupid argument. A running start saves you a meaningless fraction of a second over starting from rest in an 800. It takes about 5 steps to get up from 0 to 800 speed.
Around 0.5-0.6, 100m sprinters save about a second while taking a baton.
Cefhjhjhjefhj wrote:
How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
I think this would be noteworthy if it were also a mile PR. Has he been racing the 800 much?
i don't know many wrote:
Cefhjhjhjefhj wrote:How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
I think this would be noteworthy if it were also a mile PR. Has he been racing the 800 much?
His mile PR is 3:59.90 (achieved in the prelims). Before that his PR was 4:03 gat altitude)
It's a silly argument. Clearly he can run a faster open 800m than what he ran at NCAAs. Just because something is your official PR doesn't mean you can't run faster.
It does seem crazy, but see also the 2004 Olympic final.
From personal experience I once ran within two seconds of my 800 pr closing a 1600. Mostly it made me think how poorly I was able to do in the 800.
In short: amazing, but not unprecedented.
he's run 1:51.37 at altitude
thenoticeman wrote:
he's run 1:51.37 at altitude
so that's worth what, 1:53 at sea level?
800m is about 2/3 aerobic
converter24 wrote:
thenoticeman wrote:he's run 1:51.37 at altitude
so that's worth what, 1:53 at sea level?
thenoticeman wrote:
800m is about 2/3 aerobic
converter24 wrote:so that's worth what, 1:53 at sea level?
How ahead of his time was Ralph Doubell when he broke the WR at Mexico city?
Actual race results show altitude is historically faster across the board for the 800
portsea57 wrote:
Cefhjhjhjefhj wrote:How many people do you know that can basically run an 800m PB in the last 800m of a mile?
Faith Kipyegon in the Olympic 1500m
Final 800 at Olympics:
Kipyegon 1:57.3 (1:58.02 PB)
Dibaba 1:58.5 (I can't find an 800 PB)
Simpson 1:59.0 (2:00.45 PB)
Rowbury 1:59.3 (1:59.95 PB)
Hicham El Gurrouj and Bernard Lagat both closed the 2004 Olympic 1500m in 1:46.7, which was about equal to or greater than both of their lifetime PRs.
El G( 1:47.18 PR)
Lagat (1:46.00 PR)
Kenny B. has never broken 4 minutes for the mile.
It should be noted, as many of the posters ignore the the fact that they went through 800 in 2:11+ which is basically a nice extended warm-up/strider for these guys. No different than the whole field Olympic final running the final 800 in 1:47/1:48.
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