Matt Bowling vs Eliup Kipchoge in a 1,000 meter track race

Kipchoge would win by a freaking landslide. ~600m would be a much more fair distance.

Boling in 1:59, Kipchoge in 2:00

That sprint speed will really help over the last 100 ?

the430miler wrote:

Who ya got?

I lick kipchoge by 1.3 seconds

:O

Sprinters versus middle distance runners can battle fairly at 600 yards, considering everything else equal such as age and equal level of accomplishment. Kipchoge is older and it would not be possible under any conditions for Kipchoge to race sub-3:37.50 1500m. Kipchoge cannot train like a 1500m man now. Kipchoge would develop a severe Achilles strain at a minimum if he were to train like a 1500m man or shorter event. Since Kipchoge is old, it would be a fair race at 600m.

Even if Kipchoge doesn't have much speed in his legs 1000m is a little too far for a sprinter to keep it together. 400m runners who are ok at 800m don't have the 100m speed that Boling has- his 400m is good in a similar fashion to why Bolt's 400m is fast. Just because he's lean doesn't mean he could keep his running well together for 800m.

one of them can jog a 2'40 at the end of a marathon, the other wouldnt last for more than 600 m at the best

600 metres wrote:

Sprinters versus middle distance runners can battle fairly at 600 yards, considering everything else equal such as age and equal level of accomplishment. Kipchoge is older and it would not be possible under any conditions for Kipchoge to race sub-3:37.50 1500m. Kipchoge cannot train like a 1500m man now. Kipchoge would develop a severe Achilles strain at a minimum if he were to train like a 1500m man or shorter event. Since Kipchoge is old, it would be a fair race at 600m.

When Kipchoge was in good shape, 600m would have been good.

Today, Boling would win easily at 600m. Somewhere between 600m and 800m Kipchoge *might* catch him, but it's not a given. I doubt Kipchoge can run much faster than 1:55 right now.

Who's Matt Bowling? I think Matt Boling would beat them both.

It wouldn't even be close. 1000m? Kipchoge would beat him by 15-20 seconds.

you're an uninformed and deranged lunatic if you don't realise that Kipchoge would win this by upwards of 15 seconds

:O wrote:

the430miler wrote:

Who ya got?

I lick kipchoge by 1.3 seconds

:O

lmfao

How do we know that Boling isn't a Rudolf Harbig type talent? He seems to be almost a freak of nature at this point, defying all logic.

Kipchoge by 100 meters.

1000 meters is a >80% aerobic race. A sprinter just doesn't have the endurance to compete at that distance.

Maybe with some training Matt could be closer.

Distance runners tend to forget that to a large extent sprint speed and distance speed are mutually exclusive.

What a distance runner considers to be a sprint (ie.. finish line kick) isn't really a sprint by sprinter standards.

We're talking about Kipchoge, a man who ran was still running near 13 flat for 5k only 6 or 7 years ago. Just because he runs the marathon now does not mean his speed has disappeared. Around that same time ago he was in shape to run 7:30's for 3k, that's barely over 2:30 for a 1k, but doing THREE of them. He wouldn't hit that now, but he wouldn't be as far off as people are suggesting.

Right now for a 1k Kipchoge could still run a low 2:20, safe bet 2:22, probably even closer to 2:20. His 800 right now is still probably around 1:50, would have been more like 1:47 or 1:48when he was running sub 13 for 5k.

There are NCAA athletes who have run sub 45 who are only running 1:18 for 600 meters, which does not indicate sub 1:50 for 800, they would be doing well to hold on to 1:52.

So Kipchoge would win in 800 and up right now, probably around 600 as other people have mentioned is when it would start getting close.

Whoever Eliup is I think he wins because Matt is bowling while running the race, sounds hard

track alum wrote:

Who's Matt Bowling? I think Matt Boling would beat them both.

Matt Boling could dominate Kipchoge in bowling.

It's been said the 1,000 meters is the toughest event in track and field because you have to run it at 800 pace. It's basically the world's longest sprint.

the430miler, getting people again, as usual. 10/10

Kipchoge could run well under 13:00 right now. Carlos Lopes ran 13:16 just a few months before his 84 win and less than a year before his WR. Kipchoge's marathon record is 12 seconds per mile faster which means that if Lopes could manage 13:16, Kipchoge can run under 12:50. There is no magic marathon training program where someone can run 4:38 per mile, but not be world class at 5/10.