this weekend.
this weekend.
Solo both races
Indoor PB by 23 seconds and 9 seconds respectively.
The double makes it better, but nothing a 3:56 guy last year shouldn't be able to do.
I hope that he doesn't continue to overrace like last year.
People here were nutting themselves when German Fernandez ran 4:00.x/8:34.x for a 1600/3200 outdoor double. Both of Jakob's times are intrinsically better (worth around 3:59.x and 8:30-31), and he is 1) younger, 2) running indoors in early February, and 3) apparently solo so not even sure if he was trying that hard without video evidence.
People here DGAF since Jakob's not American?
Yes, it makes you wonder what this 17 y.o. would need to run to impress people on LR.
7:56.7 is his in/out best by 3.3 seconds.
He would be a junior in HS in the US.
Did he say that he was trying to qualify for world indoor?
Standards are 7:52.0 and 3:39.5
Given the right conditions, he could probably run those times. He only has 2 weeks left however.
I think both races were controlled efforts. He will be racing in Belgium next weekend, where aims at dipping under 3:40.
BTW: he also ran a 1:52.01 indoor PB today. So it's a triple, not a double.
Drug testing at this meet?
No idea.
He really seems to be overdoing it. I genuinely hope it truly was a set of controlled efforts.
7:56 doesn't seem controlled to me.
Yes HS runners can be tested in Norway. Not like here in the USA where HS runner can dope as much as they want.
Tripling makes it worse. It's not that I'm unimpressed by the performance for a 17 year old, but that for this athlete, it is not surprising or eye-opening to run slower times than he has or was capable of. This is a kid who ran 8:25 in the steeple last year!
Did he run the 1500/3k within 2 hrs like German?
GFer wrote:
People here were nutting themselves when German Fernandez ran 4:00.x/8:34.x for a 1600/3200 outdoor double. Both of Jakob's times are intrinsically better (worth around 3:59.x and 8:30-31), and he is 1) younger, 2) running indoors in early February, and 3) apparently solo so not even sure if he was trying that hard without video evidence.
People here DGAF since Jakob's not American?
The majority of visitors to this site are American. Of course they're going to be more excited about an American kid performing well. Why on Earth would you think otherwise?
zxcvcxvcx wrote:
The double makes it better, but nothing a 3:56 guy last year shouldn't be able to do.
I hope that he doesn't continue to overrace like last year.
How can you possibly claim that he overraced? Yes, he ran a lot of races, but he never deteriorated or faded at any point during the season.
We can all agree that he raced a lot
However, we don't know whether these races simply replaced high intensity interval sessions.
What we also don't know is whether he will have the same progression out of junior ranks than Ryun or Rupp. We will find out soon enough. In the short term, 7:56 is pretty good.
According to a Norwegian paper. Jakob has signed a sponsorship deal with Nike through 2024.
Good for him
http://direkte.vg.no/studio/vgsporten#!verbatimId=5a7758285152f75620e97040
zxcvxcvc wrote:
Tripling makes it worse. It's not that I'm unimpressed by the performance for a 17 year old, but that for this athlete, it is not surprising or eye-opening to run slower times than he has or was capable of. This is a kid who ran 8:25 in the steeple last year!
Did he run the 1500/3k within 2 hrs like German?
He ran all this times solo, did the german do that?