Anyone think he'll get it. The 1500 record is slightly harder to break than the mile and Kejelcha probably would be slightly better at mile than 1500.
Anyone think he'll get it. The 1500 record is slightly harder to break than the mile and Kejelcha probably would be slightly better at mile than 1500.
Weird week. First Letsrun praise Salazar and the Ken Goe praises letsrun.
I'm not sure why this phantom meet at BU on MArch 3rd keeps getting thrown around. There is no open meet at BU that weekend or anything close to that weekend. Last chance is on february 24th and the weekend of MArch 3rd, BU is hosting ECACs/IC4As. If he is going to target a WR that weekend, it doesnt seem like it would be at BU.
LetsRun.com wrote:
Anyone think he'll get it. The 1500 record is slightly harder to break than the mile and Kejelcha probably would be slightly better at mile than 1500.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/02/1500m-world-record-alert-yomif-kejelcha-could-take-down-el-guerroujs-record-in-birmingham/
it would be pretty amazing if he could do it. but for someone who is primarily a 3000 and 5000m runner, 1500m requires more speed than I think kejelcha has. his best distances are the same as for Daniel Komen. 12:39 compared to 12:46 and 7:20 to 7:28.
now, komen’s fastest 1500 was a 3:29 and kejelcha’s is 3:32. to shave off 6 seconds in the 1500 is about 45m. to shave off that much time in only a few months would be tough. I don’t think he will break it mostly because Komen didn’t do it and he was much faster at both distance they specialize in.
Birmingham’s track is slow
exrunner wrote:
Birmingham’s track is slow
The 2k, 2 mile and 5000 world records were ran on that track as well as the second fastest 1000m indoors. The Women's 2 mile indoor world record with a 3k split for sixth fastest ever. The 3rd fastest womens 1000 too.
What time is the race?
BTW exrunner's an idiot.
MexicanMacoroni wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Anyone think he'll get it. The 1500 record is slightly harder to break than the mile and Kejelcha probably would be slightly better at mile than 1500.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/02/1500m-world-record-alert-yomif-kejelcha-could-take-down-el-guerroujs-record-in-birmingham/it would be pretty amazing if he could do it. but for someone who is primarily a 3000 and 5000m runner, 1500m requires more speed than I think kejelcha has. his best distances are the same as for Daniel Komen. 12:39 compared to 12:46 and 7:20 to 7:28.
now, komen’s fastest 1500 was a 3:29 and kejelcha’s is 3:32. to shave off 6 seconds in the 1500 is about 45m. to shave off that much time in only a few months would be tough. I don’t think he will break it mostly because Komen didn’t do it and he was much faster at both distance they specialize in.
He doesn’t need to shave off 6 seconds—he’s only targeting the 3:31.18 indoor record, not 3:26.00.
Think LRC said 10:33 AM ET. I think he will just miss here, but the mile one is a goner if he gets the BU ones he says he will. Should be around 3:31 high, though for an overall PB. Think the mile distance suits him better and he might get a tad overexcited here and drop a 58+ third 400 which will kill him even if he finishes strongly.
Miss by a bit in 3:32.1.
3:30.12 with perfect pacing, blows it away. Wins in Düsseldorf in 3:33.5 and then targets Komen’s 7:24.9, going through 2k in 4:56 before “struggling” home to win in 7:28.3. Thus concludes his indoor season.
Will run sub-3:30 and sub-26:30 this outdoor season.
Runs 3:31.19. LetsRun crashes
BU meet wrote:
I'm not sure why this phantom meet at BU on MArch 3rd keeps getting thrown around. There is no open meet at BU that weekend or anything close to that weekend. Last chance is on february 24th and the weekend of MArch 3rd, BU is hosting ECACs/IC4As. If he is going to target a WR that weekend, it doesnt seem like it would be at BU.
It would be a special race at the end of the ECAC/IC4A meet on Sunday
6 seconds? wrote:
MexicanMacoroni wrote:
it would be pretty amazing if he could do it. but for someone who is primarily a 3000 and 5000m runner, 1500m requires more speed than I think kejelcha has. his best distances are the same as for Daniel Komen. 12:39 compared to 12:46 and 7:20 to 7:28.
now, komen’s fastest 1500 was a 3:29 and kejelcha’s is 3:32. to shave off 6 seconds in the 1500 is about 45m. to shave off that much time in only a few months would be tough. I don’t think he will break it mostly because Komen didn’t do it and he was much faster at both distance they specialize in.
He doesn’t need to shave off 6 seconds—he’s only targeting the 3:31.18 indoor record, not 3:26.00.
Oh, my bad. But still if his best is 3:32 outdoors, running 3:31 might be a bit of a stretch for him.
I'll say he gets the record, assuming pacers are good. Plus AlSal admitted he "probably" had trained Kejelcha too hard two days before the Wannamaker Mile.
See link below for start list. Interesting to see Kerr and O'Hare both on there.
A minute too late. Saw him after the finish:
Tefera got the record in 3:31:04 Kejelcha second
deathinparadise wrote:
Tefera got the record in 3:31:04 Kejelcha second
Kejelcha in 3:31.58
Tefera totally nonplussed !