Primo Numero Uno wrote:
el guerroujjj wrote:
So this would be like El Guerrouj closing a 10,000 in 3:48?
I assume you mean 3:48 for the 1600 not 1500. Only 13 women have broken 4:00 in the 1500m this season.
9 seconds off the the doped up WR after already running 8500m. Nothing to see here, lets just keep burying our head in the sand when it comes to NOP.
Yea, it's suspicious. By default, anyone being #1 in the world, and especially a commanding #1 in the world is.
The performance itself, not so much. That mile close is fast, but not extraordinary. Remember she has run 65', or 5:00 pace for a half on the roads, that's like 4:50-4:55 pace on the track. They ran the first 8k sub threshold. That takes absolutely nothing out of your anaerobic capacity, so everything you have is left for the kick.
I mean seriously, just go try it. Go to the track and run at 5-10 seconds slower than road HM pace (even this is being generous, because there are extra savings sitting on the back of the pack that you wouldn't be getting solo), and then try to run within 10 seconds of your mile PR. It's....just not that insane. You're 100% fresh for the mile. Running HMP + 10s/mile makes you no more tired than running 9:00 pace for 5 miles does. That anaerobic cap is still entirely untouched.
It's impressive, but it's not otherworldly. People just forget that running a few miles sub threshold literally takes nothing out of you.
And again, Hassan had easier than even that as she had drafting the entire time, and someone to race against, key off, and push against.