Konstanze Klosterhalfen crushes NR and PB...runs solo 14:26!!

Unbelievable run by Koko at the German national champs.

If she can run 14:26 by herself with no pressure what can she do in a fast paced DL? Gotta be close to WR shape.

Koko Fan wrote:

If she can run 14:26 by herself with no pressure what can she do in a fast paced DL? Gotta be close to WR shape.

Great run indeed. But Koko is a frontrunner. She won't be much faster in a fast paced meeting race. WR shape is yet to come.

Another NOP transformation!

Meh again wrote:

Another NOP transformation!

Not really. She ran 14:51 solo with a huge negative split already in May 2017 and would probably have been around 14:35 shape already back then. NOP did the fine tuning, but most of this was already there two years ago.

Konstanze is my favorite female distance runner. Love her aggressive front running style. I think she's going to lower that PB by 10-15 seconds before its all said and done.

No, this was not mostly there two years ago. 14:51 is not close to 14:26 and her 3k times then did not indicate anything like this kind of form. Salazar's group has her running close enough to Hassan now, that she might just stick to the bell lap in a 14:15 race, only to be blown out the last lap and hit 14:19-21. Getting paced all the way to 5000m would help her, just not as much as some would need. She won this by nearly a minute! Very impressive. That is 8 seconds faster than Houlihan's American record and 12 seconds faster than Rowbury ran.

If this is not fake news -then it would be an incredible performance by K.K.

Only about 10 women have ever run faster. The only non-East African to run faster was Russian Liliya Shobukhova 14:23.75.

Amazing race by KoKo. I'd love to see her run the 10,000m. I think she has the potential to run it in under 30 mins. She ran one 10k road race in 32:20ish three years ago.

Very nice running!

qs wrote:

The only non-East African to run faster was Russian Liliya Shobukhova 14:23.75.

Who is a doper, so KK is the fastest non-East African.

that guy from Germany wrote:

Splits: 2:54.88 - 5:49.45 - 8:44.49 - 11:37.65

Excellent pacing. Truncated splits of 2:54 / 2:55 / 2:55 / 2:53 / 2:49

14:51 is not close, true. But she ran this split roughly 9:10 - 5:41, solo and lapping other runners all the time in the second half. And in a season when she was clearly focussing on the 1500m. Likewise the 8:29 in Birmingham 2017 were an unevenly paced race after the season's peak where she spent most of the race on lane 2. All of this indicated a huge potential for the 5k and she would certainly have run around 14:30-35 in 2018 had she not been injured in the spring of that year.

No doubt that she got another boost from NOP, but the 25 sec. PB is misleading in several ways as explained above.

She was also 20 when she ran that 14:51

Coach Julian having an epic year.

That Chik wrote:

Konstanze is my favorite female distance runner. Love her aggressive front running style. I think she's going to lower that PB by 10-15 seconds before its all said and done.

Yeah, I love her too, but it's pretty close between her & Laura Muir!

I just checked the NOP website. Julian coaches 7/12 of the athletes with Salazar the other 5. He coaches more than half the team. I imagine that because Hasay and Rupp train primarily alone and are marathoners, they probably take up a lot of time so maybe the numbers don't tell the whole story, but Julian still coaches Suguru and has had a lot of success with him.

Salazar is a bit long in the tooth and has been having Julian handle more and more of the coaching. Perhaps Julian should be getting more credit as being a world class coach than he does. Of course, the athletes that come to him are already tremendous runners, but great success is still hard to come by.