1:43.25 Michael Saruni

westsouthrunner wrote:

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

[quote]jamin wrote:

Imagine if college guy came out of nowhere and ran 3:45 for mile (roughly equivalent to 1:43 for 800)

How many people have run under 3:46 compared to sub 1:44. Look up those statsistics and you will see why we do not have a 3:45 every year but we have multiple 1:43's every year. Not to take away from Saruni's performance. 3:48 is definitley correct

We don't have multiple 1:43s in college every year do we?

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

My take on the wind was that it appears to be blowing across the track (tailwind for the first 100m, headwind from the 200m start to the 100m start/300m mark). Rieti often has a weird situation where you can have a tailwind along the back straight but no head wind up the home straight because of the stand, hence the fast times but this probably is not an incidence of that.

Anyway a LR congrats for your athletes running well at the moment.

I think people get too carried away with what they perceive to be windy conditions. Often the wind looks strong high up in a stadium or in trees around the outskirts, but the athletes down on the track hardly feel a thing, and are protected by stands at various points around the track.

It just happens that there were three 100m races for men some 15 mins before the 800, and three 200m races for women 20 mins after. The official meet stats show the wind direction in all 6 races was in the same direction, a tailwind, and ranged from 0m/sec to +1.9m/sec. That would seem to suggest the wind wasn’t that strong. But I wasn’t there, so possibly the wind picked up for that particular race!?

Just give it up, you were wrong about the wind and are just digging the hole deeper out of spite. Save it for something productive, like refraining from posting like a moran.

UT-EPo wrote:

Semenya-esque splits.

Are you saying he has a reserve set of balls up inside? Killer.

Ignore the other idiot (Ahhcchooo), the wind is certainly a puzzler because it is visible but it is difficult to gauge any noticeable impact on his performance (could be only very flimsy things are blowing) unless he is in 1:41 shape. The sheltering of the stand maybe key, though the track is pretty open. Didn't Korir or someone run fast at this meet last year? Could be a fast track. Anyhow I don't know how everybody has missed the fact that the commentator, ironically, sounds like Bill Cosby. Lol.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Anyhow I don't know how everybody has missed the fact that the commentator, ironically, sounds like Bill Cosby. Lol.

Too funny! ???

Saw his interview. It was very strange. He showed little if no excitement, happiness or emotion.

He just ran 1:43 world lead and broke the NCAA record and was emotionless.

cuz he's guilty of you know what...

Don’t worry be happy wrote:

Saw his interview. It was very strange. He showed little if no excitement, happiness or emotion.

He just ran 1:43 world lead and broke the NCAA record and was emotionless.

That's because it is Paul Merca doing the interview...let's put it generously that he should not be allowed anywhere near a microphone. He makes the brojos look like articulate professionals.The guy is straight-up weird.

Michael is actually a hilarious interview under normal conditions:

jamin wrote:

lol wtf

Just goes to show how much depth the 800 (and 400, 200, etc.) has compared to the 1500, 3000 steeplechase, etc., especially in the United States

Imagine if college guy came out of nowhere and ran 3:45 for mile (roughly equivalent to 1:43 for 800)

3rd last night in Sweden (1:47.66) behind Peter Bol.

Good news, Coevette, Vincent Keter from Kenya just finished next-to-last (of the first two) in the 1500m. At age 18 he improved enormously from 3:53 last year to 3:36.27. But this is not important, since Australian Oliver Hoare won (the challenge of the last four) in 3:45.50 .

There is rumors that both KORIR and SARUNI are no longer based in Texas but instead based in ??, NGONG in the case of KORIR. If that be the case, are they still coached by Paul Ereng?( because that is a big factor). Even then training away from direct supervision of Ereng can affect their performance. KORIR seems to be a 1:44 at best right now. We will wait to see how he does in Lausanne. Diamond league tomorrow.

good news for the hater wrote:

Good news, Coevette, Vincent Keter from Kenya just finished next-to-last (of the first two) in the 1500m. At age 18 he improved enormously from 3:53 last year to 3:36.27. But this is not important, since Australian Oliver Hoare won (the challenge of the last four) in 3:45.50 .

I know that it's slightly unfair to make comparisons with last season because of the late World Championships this year, but at the exact same stage of last season, five Kenyans had already gone under 1:44.5 for 800m, and this year only one has. No Kenyan has yet broken 1:44 this season, but at the same point last year, four had.

Coevett wrote:

good news for the hater wrote:

Good news, Coevette, Vincent Keter from Kenya just finished next-to-last (of the first two) in the 1500m. At age 18 he improved enormously from 3:53 last year to 3:36.27. But this is not important, since Australian Oliver Hoare won (the challenge of the last four) in 3:45.50 .

I know that it's slightly unfair to make comparisons with last season because of the late World Championships this year, but at the exact same stage of last season, five Kenyans had already gone under 1:44.5 for 800m, and this year only one has. No Kenyan has yet broken 1:44 this season, but at the same point last year, four had.

At the exact same stage of the athletics season 38 years ago, one Brit already has broken 1:42 for 800m, and this year No Brit has broken 1:45.

11 of the 23 fastest 800m runners so far are Kenyans.

goood news for the hater wrote:

At the exact same stage of the athletics season 38 years ago, one Brit already has broken 1:42 for 800m, and this year No Brit has broken 1:45.

What a moran.

Even Casual Observer would be ashamed of that.

Comparing one performance over 40 years apart, as opposed to something five Kenyan men did last year.

The decline in elite Kenyan times on the track has been consistent and appears to be accelerating, matching the increasing doping busts and improving testing standards.

At the exact same stage of the athletics season 38 years ago, one Brit had broken 1:46 for 800m, and this year six Brits have broken 1:46, and one of them was barely 17 years old and solo ran it from the gun.

Coevett wrote:

At the exact same stage of the athletics season 38 years ago, one Brit had broken 1:46 for 800m, and this year six Brits have broken 1:46, and one of them was barely 17 years old and solo ran it from the gun.

And what's your point?

Kenyans dominate the 800 list - special reason why you ignore this?

Coevett wrote:

I know that it's slightly unfair to make comparisons with last season because of the late World Championships this year, but at the exact same stage of last season, five Kenyans had already gone under 1:44.5 for 800m, and this year only one has. No Kenyan has yet broken 1:44 this season, but at the same point last year, four had.

Don't panic, Coevette, three of your beloved runners from Kenya have run 1:44.01 or faster today. But Brits are doing almost as well. In the last quarter of a century also three brits were running that fast with Andrew Osagie, Michael Rimmer and Martin Steele. But Brits are getting faster every day at the moment and Kenyans slow down dramatically (at least in your dreams) - so it might just take 20 years from now that we will see three more Brits under 1:44.0

don't panic, Coevette wrote:

Coevett wrote:

I know that it's slightly unfair to make comparisons with last season because of the late World Championships this year, but at the exact same stage of last season, five Kenyans had already gone under 1:44.5 for 800m, and this year only one has. No Kenyan has yet broken 1:44 this season, but at the same point last year, four had.

Don't panic, Coevette, three of your beloved runners from Kenya have run 1:44.01 or faster today. But Brits are doing almost as well. In the last quarter of a century also three brits were running that fast with Andrew Osagie, Michael Rimmer and Martin Steele. But Brits are getting faster every day at the moment and Kenyans slow down dramatically (at least in your dreams) - so it might just take 20 years from now that we will see three more Brits under 1:44.0

You should know by now that Coevette doesn't consider Rimmer or Osagie to be Brits.

mofong wrote:

don't panic, Coevette wrote:

Don't panic, Coevette, three of your beloved runners from Kenya have run 1:44.01 or faster today. But Brits are doing almost as well. In the last quarter of a century also three brits were running that fast with Andrew Osagie, Michael Rimmer and Martin Steele. But Brits are getting faster every day at the moment and Kenyans slow down dramatically (at least in your dreams) - so it might just take 20 years from now that we will see three more Brits under 1:44.0

You should know by now that Coevette doesn't consider Rimmer or Osagie to be Brits.

This seems to be right - maybe it will take 60 years then until three real Brits will run sub 1:44.