Nick Willis 13:56 DFL?

Morale of the story is that just because your mile ability is world class, doesn’t mean you can move up to longer distances. Real running is not the McMillian calculator.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Nick said what his issue was on his twitter page. Enough said

His Instagram post said that he has tried the 5k and realizes now that he should stick with 1500.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaBPBTAWkB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

great clean performance wrote:

Nick is from an english speaking country, so he was the only not doped athlete in the field. Congrats Nick!

Uh, don’t know if you saw that Ben true also ran.

Bands a make hoes dance wrote:

At least he had the balls to finish. 90% of guys would have quit to save face. Real men such as Nick dont care what the haters have to say.

I was also thinking this.

kjclean wrote:

You want to see today's modern clean runners?

Look at the 800m and the 5000m for men. Totally wiped out, panting like dogs.

Willis just doesn't know how to push himself. Quite a baby at distances like Seb Coe was. At least he now has a faster 5000m PB than Lord Coe. These guys just don't know how to hurt. It's so different than the 1500m. I have a 13:54.28 PB and am nowhere near as fast as Nick. Nowhere. I only made NCAA Regionals, but maybe I didn't know how to hurt with a 3:48 1500m PB!! HA.

Spoken like a true idiot

Bands a make hoes dance wrote:

At least he had the balls to finish. 90% of guys would have quit to save face. Real men such as Nick dont care what the haters have to say.

Totally agree. He went for it, he blew up, he suffered. It wasn't his day. But it shows guts.

Gene Gene mada a machine wrote:

Bands a make hoes dance wrote:

At least he had the balls to finish. 90% of guys would have quit to save face. Real men such as Nick dont care what the haters have to say.

Totally agree. He went for it, he blew up, he suffered. It wasn't his day. But it shows guts.

In highschool coaches rightly rip you a new one for dropping out cuz you're dfl. Pros do it all the time - or cuz they are in 8th place in a marathon. So dumb.

Yeah - total stud for finishing it.

His last mile was 4:51

I was thinking how cool it'd be to be fast enough to consider 4:51 in the last mile of a 5K "blowing up"

Seems to me he could be an excellent 5K runner if he would just sit still and train in one place for about 6 months. From following his IG he is all over the place.. NZ for a few weeks, then Ann Arbor for a while....then Flagstaff.... then back to NZ... then who knows where else...then back to Ann Arbor I don't know how you can adapt and recover from the training with traveling what seems like every 4-6 weeks. With wife and two kids to boot.

Gene Gene mada a machine wrote:

Bands a make hoes dance wrote:

At least he had the balls to finish. 90% of guys would have quit to save face. Real men such as Nick dont care what the haters have to say.

Totally agree. He went for it, he blew up, he suffered. It wasn't his day. But it shows guts.

Yep, at this point in his career, Willis has nothing to prove to us.

As was pointed out earlier being at 6:32-6:33 at 2500m is 13:05 pace. That race just seemed over his head for a guy who hasn't done a lot of 5k's, at least all out. He did run at Occidental, but mentioned not being 100% healthy there either. Looks like he ran 13:27 in college at NCAA's in the race with Ryan Hall and Ian Dobson. I would guess at the very least he could run 13:20-13:30 at the moment in a more even effort race or a field of similar caliber. Pretty equal to most 1500m / mile guys like Ben Blankenship, etc.

I agree Nick is a much better miler than a 5k guy. His strength is his kick and that has always been the case throughout his career. He is a RACER! Overall he does much better off an even pace or a slower pace with a big kick at the end. These guys were running sub 13 pace from the start. A better race for him would have been going out at 13:15 to 13:20 pace but nobody was going that slow. He let it ride at that pace. He will be back...

Kiwi__ wrote:

WTF happened?

He was in last place from the start!

Don't worry Nick Willis is the 2008 1500m Olympic champion.

We all know this.

Snell wrote:

Kiwi__ wrote:

WTF happened?

He was in last place from the start!

Don't worry Nick Willis is the 2008 1500m Olympic champion.

We all know this.

True can't argue with that.

Ben True wasn’t in the race!

Ben True, 13:09

Nick Willis, 13:56

Seb Coe, 14:07

Need more Frank Shorter-like toughness. Frank's attitude was "I'll give you hell in any and every race from 2 miles

thru 10k"............ even though his best event was the marathon....

NIck should continue to run 2 mile, 5k and even 10k on track and road to establish that same kind of toughness....and

it will make him a better miler too.

trueeee wrote:

Ben True, 13:09

Nick Willis, 13:56

Seb Coe, 14:07

Has the New Zealand national record for 3k in 7:37. I thought he could be around 13:10 for 5k. Probably went out too fast.