Official 2017 Rabat DL Discussion Thread - BMart vs. Rowbury + Caster at 400

He is a 400m guy, and that wasn't a bad race by him. It was a decent race

Rowbury in 2nd at the 400m mark (3rd if you count the pacer). Martinez in the mix.

Martinez 2nd, Rowbury 3rd at 800m. Pacer at 2:10

Laura Weightman in the lead at the bell. 3:00

Rowbury 4th, Martinez 6th

Martinez 3rd 4:02.75 season's best. She came on hard at the end

Somebody needs to tell first and second place of that 1500 Brenda ran 52 and 53 in a workout a few days ago...

Good speed session for Martinez. She's been having a good season so far, probably would get a bronze medal in the WC, behind lipsey and wilson....but three dudes rule 800 meters.

Brenda looked like she was gunning for the win, but ran out of gas with 40m to go. Still a good race for her. Rowbury looked awful and moved backwards over the final lap.

SB for Martinez. Rowbury 4:04.73 in 6th

Why is Rowbury so bad at 1500 this year? maybe should just do 3000/5000

It seems Rowbury is bad at 1500m this year. After USAs, I thought she was just worn out from the double, but here she was bad again.

NOP Skeptic wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaS4-NpbuqY

Track and Field Maniac comes in clutch again with the live stream on Youtube. It has worked for the last 2 Diamond League meets. Downfall, I don't think the commentary is in English, but I'll take it. If anyone finds a free English commentary stream, post here.

Thanks.

Lotso wrote:

It seems Rowbury is bad at 1500m this year. After USAs, I thought she was just worn out from the double, but here she was bad again.

She ran a sh!tty 1500 at Pre as well.

What was up with the whistling in the women's 1500? Where they cheering for Arafi or somehow rooting against her? It was definitely louder but the whistling surprised me.

Lotso wrote:

It seems Rowbury is bad at 1500m this year. After USAs, I thought she was just worn out from the double, but here she was bad again.

Too much doubling, she is burned out. That is clear. Doubling from 1500 to 5000 meters is the worst of all the doubles to me. Look at Dibaba, she's one of the best in the world, but she hasn't looked her best in either race.

Rowbury at 4:04 is not bad but for her, she is usually in sub 4 shape now. Is Rabat at some altitude? What is wrong with Rowbury is probably that she has not been doing the usually 1500m speedwork, because she's been planning to turn to the 5000m, and you can't do both at the same time if you are not keeping in touch with your speed as much. Nice result for Martinez, a pr, and remember that 1) that 3x400m, 1x300m workout probably killed her legs for weeks, and 2) it had little or nothing to do with running the 1500m. Wait and see what kind of 800m she runs if she's at Monaco.

Lotso wrote:

It seems Rowbury is bad at 1500m this year. After USAs, I thought she was just worn out from the double, but here she was bad again.

She finished 6th in a DL race so that is not horrible. She is not in the form she has been in recent years but she will be 33 in Sept. and has been a world class MD runner for 10 years.

Maybe her time is just up. Even Lagat moved up to the 5K later in his career as he lost some of his speed. That said, running a 1500 3 weeks before London seems like good prep for the 5K.

is it permissible to run around the steeple barrier?

upset!