Jakob Ingebrigtsen 3000 meter in 8:00:01

I thought wow that's a great steeplechase.

RacingSinceMay wrote:

Burned out and forgotten with the amount he races and trains. Probably will get injured when he's nineteen.

Is it known that he trains excessively, or are you assuming it because he races a lot (and is fast)?

As far as the racing is concerned, he's light years ahead of his Norwegian junior peers, so what harm is there in racing 6 events in a weekend or whatever in second gear. They're really just training runs with the extra of adding a little to his championship experience, and putting him in the history books. He was probably holding back a little in the 400m.

Steve Ovett used to compete in a similar fashion as a junior, breaking Brighton schools records in everything from the 100m to the high jump in a single day and then competing in the national schoolboys cross country the next week. Didn't seem to do him any harm - 12 years of senior championship medals, despite the railings and the LA near death experiences.

Seems to me all of the posters here claiming that schoolboy prodigies inevitably burn out are basing that on the experience of notable American stars of the past - Jim Ryun, Alan Webb etc. Maybe it's an American thing?

except he didn't even try in the 3k? when he ran his 13;35 his 3k split was almost as fast as the one he did now.

Hmm...as I said - training runs with the added benefit etc.

this young and super-talented runner is the target of posters writing nothing else than negative stuff. i am glad that european talents like muir, klosterhalfen and ingebrigtsen appear to challenge african distance running.

obviously jakob ingebrigtsen is a complete runner.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

RacingSinceMay wrote:

Burned out and forgotten with the amount he races and trains. Probably will get injured when he's nineteen.

This. He's already having the onset of it.

Or he's just a month+ past his peak? Do you guys think this race was the taper for the season. Kid ran a sub 4 mile in the first week of June.

What's next? Saying "I told you so" when he goes back to base training in a few weeks?

wisenheimer at work wrote:

this young and super-talented runner is the target of posters writing nothing else than negative stuff. i am glad that european talents like muir, klosterhalfen and ingebrigtsen appear to challenge african distance running.

obviously jakob ingebrigtsen is a complete runner.

Watch out El K will turn up in this thread soon and label you racist and bigoted.

Enough already with this punk arrogant kid that won't come out to nothing. I'm sick of hearing bout him

Why was my post mentioning that there are hundreds of Kenyans of the same age with faster times deleted?

Two posts that I have written about Simpson goes home devastated were deleted. Let's run are racists white supremacy people. They don't delete hundreds of threads bad mouthing africans, but when it comes to white American....

51 flat. Seems bang average but no idea of the conditions

look at the video.............he's literally jogging many of the laps and ran the whole race, solo...........easily could have gone much faster with some competition/pacers...............

He missed Kunze's European Youth record by 3.4 seconds. I'm impressed with Kunze's record. It's quite a bit faster than the US HS record.

This is how Jakob would rank in the US all time HS list

1500m 3rd

Mile 3rd

3000m 3rd

Steeple 1st

5000m 1st

Looking at this and looking at his 400m PB of 51.03 (slower than Caster's PB), it does in fact look like his future will not be in the 1500m.

According to the commentator, Jakob went through 1800m in 4.55, which would mean he ran at 7.42 pace for the last 1200m, and I would not be surprised if his last 800m was quite a bit faster.

Jakob's 400m probably wasn't quite what we had hoped for, although he apparently had a dreadful start from the blocks.

After the Norwegian championships, Jakob's father said he would have one month off to recover, so these youth championships is probably the last thing he does (before he humiliates the U20 field in the Euro XC champs in December).

Last thing, I honestly don't think the father is over racing the kid. From my counting, Jakob has had 9 weekends this summer with races, although some of those weekends have been quite intense. Other than that, Jakob may run 2-3 XC races during the winter. All in, that is 12 weekends with races during a year, with a couple of long blocks with intelligent and well supervised training in between. I think most readers of these boards would agree that this sounds like a reasonable schedule.

well wrote:

Nor-way wrote:

the 3000 staples

How can I enter this race? Is it just stapling something 3000 times? Or is it like the 3000 steeplechase, but instead of steeplechase barriers you just have to jump over staples?

It's both, but be careful if you enter these competitions: I developed bad carpel tunnel syndrome training for the 3,000 staples .....and in the other, I tripped badly after the 2,687th staple (fatigue). I DNF'd.

Kiddiidyyd wrote:

This is how Jakob would rank in the US all time HS list

1500m 3rd

Mile 3rd

3000m 3rd

Steeple 1st

5000m 1st

Looking at this and looking at his 400m PB of 51.03 (slower than Caster's PB), it does in fact look like his future will not be in the 1500m.

He'll be the first to break 2h.

Gmoat, agree with you. There are so many haters on these forums. Instead of celebrating a promising talent, they hope for him being burned out so they can say "told you so".

His father have shown that he knew very well how to bring his two older brother to superb runners. With an even bigger talent like Jakob, he will be very fascinating to follow the next 10 years - or more.

ooh rah wrote:

We all know he could run 8-flat no problem. I wanna know what he ran for the 400m?

This.

The 400 is probably the best indicator of future success.

Sub 50?