First group: Ineos pacemakers:
Augustine Choge
Victor Chumo
Filip Ingebrigtsen
Henrik Ingebrigtsen
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Bernard Lagat
Jack Rayner
Brett Robinson
First group: Ineos pacemakers:
Augustine Choge
Victor Chumo
Filip Ingebrigtsen
Henrik Ingebrigtsen
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Bernard Lagat
Jack Rayner
Brett Robinson
Big names, exciting list.
But the Ingebrigstens are middle distances specialists. I can't help thinking they've been recruited to draw crowds, not because of their marathon pacing abilities.
It wasn't long ago that Lagat was spanking Kipchoge in the 5,000m. Kipchoge was slower than Lagat around the time when he left the track.
Banana Bread wrote:
It wasn't long ago that Lagat was spanking Kipchoge in the 5,000m. Kipchoge was slower than Lagat around the time when he left the track.
Maybe at 1500, Kipchoge last track season according to his IAAF profile was 2012 and he ran 27:11, 12:55.34, 7:31.
Lagat that year ran 12:59,
Maybe at 1500 wrote:
Banana Bread wrote:
It wasn't long ago that Lagat was spanking Kipchoge in the 5,000m. Kipchoge was slower than Lagat around the time when he left the track.
Maybe at 1500, Kipchoge last track season according to his IAAF profile was 2012 and he ran 27:11, 12:55.34, 7:31.
Lagat that year ran 12:59,
I'd appreciate it if you didn't bring in facts to this forum. Please leave it as a place where we make $hit up and expect you to accept is as fact. The banana bread dude is annoying AF as it is.
What was the final list of pacemakers?
It was great to see Bernard Lagat at the finish.
The pacers all running around 14:30 for 5K make it look so easy. To put it into perspective, how many high schoolers can even run a 14:30 5K? Very few I would venture to say and those that can are most likely the top runners in their state. As the track 5000 is rarely run at the high school level I would guess that this would equate to somewhere around a 8:55-9:05 3200. All would be getting D1 scholarships to run in college.
Pacing the INEOS wrote:
The pacers all running around 14:30 for 5K make it look so easy. To put it into perspective, how many high schoolers can even run a 14:30 5K? Very few I would venture to say and those that can are most likely the top runners in their state. As the track 5000 is rarely run at the high school level I would guess that this would equate to somewhere around a 8:55-9:05 3200. All would be getting D1 scholarships to run in college.
Many NCAA D-1 programs focus spending the money on athletic grants toward 100m to 800m athletes, hurdlers, jumpers and throwers. A high school &/or college T&F program needs at least 40 athletes per gender. There is less than 13 D-1 athletic grants for males. Do know: there is no 4 x 1500m relay in conference championship or NCAA championship. There are no guarantees for an 8:55 3200m athlete. It depends on said athlete's 400/800 performances.
Sick of this guy wrote:
Maybe at 1500 wrote:
Maybe at 1500, Kipchoge last track season according to his IAAF profile was 2012 and he ran 27:11, 12:55.34, 7:31.
Lagat that year ran 12:59,
I'd appreciate it if you didn't bring in facts to this forum. Please leave it as a place where we make $hit up and expect you to accept is as fact. The banana bread dude is annoying AF as it is.
Maybe Banana Bread was talking about the 2009 World Championships where Lagat finished first and Kipchoge 2nd. Or the 2009 World Championships where Lagat finished 2nd and Kipchoge was 5th. Or the 2011 World Championships where Lagat was 2nd and Kipchoge 7th. Kipchoge didn't even make the Olympics in 2012 where Lagat finished 4th. As for the faster part. Lagat ran 12:53 in 2011 which was around the time that Kipchoge left the track.
Looking at this makes me wonder why Kipchoge doesn't face the same suspicion that Mo Farah does for going from a mid-packer in Championship finals to a world beater.
Norwegian Wood wrote:
Big names, exciting list.
But the Ingebrigstens are middle distances specialists. I can't help thinking they've been recruited to draw crowds, not because of their marathon pacing abilities.
Draw crowds and an easy pay day too.
It's not that they were pacing the entire thing, it was a relay team of pacers, I assume you knew that, correct?
Regardless, they got their part of the job done.