To be announced soon - Rhonex Kipruto will attempt to break the track 10,000 WR in Hengelo(June 1st)!!

Here's hoping Cheptegei, Kejelcha, and Kamworor are in this race.

indeedy wrote:

Yes, for many years even the fastest 10k road races have been about 30 seconds slower than the track.

The reason for this is that most of the track stars never chased fast times on the roads, especially at the shorter distances. Nowadays global medalists like Rhonex or Cheptegei actually go for those WRs, never happened with Kenny or Haile. Also there generally is a greater focus on fast times now, for example of those 9 women who broke 30:21 (Radcliffe's old WR) 2017-2020 no one won anything of relevance on the track, yet they were pushed by male pacemakers to faster times than far better athletes archived before (7 of those 9 did it with regular adidas flats, so Vaporflys can't be faulted). In conclusion: Flat roads (+maybe Boost/Pebax to compensate for the responsiveness of a track)=fastest surface available.

anacondarunner wrote:

Here's hoping Cheptegei, Kejelcha, and Kamworor are in this race.

+1

PLEASE!!!! Add in Berega and Gebrhiwet, and it is ON. Surely Hermens can make this happen...

Wow when is the last time someone publicly targeted the 26:17 WR?

PIK wrote:

Wow when is the last time someone publicly targeted the 26:17 WR?

Bekele back in 2008 at the Prefontaine Classic I think. Ran 26:25.97

raw speed wrote:

Rhonex doesn't have enough speed to break the 5,000m WR and i'm not sure Cheptegei has it either, but for the 10,000m Rhonex is an aerobic monster and really efficient, so doesn't need that top end extra gear.

With 26:24 on the roads already, he can go sub 26:15 on the track on a perfect day, maybe this year or in the near future, but one day it will be his, remember the name!

yeah...he seems to be in the mold of Tadesse where he didn't have the speed to compete in the 5,000m or to outkick at the end of the 10,000m but I think he could do it on a perfect day.

Also, considering Bekele still has a huge aerobic engine and not much speed...I wonder what he could pull off if put into a race like that (not that he would ever do it)

Yes, he is basically an improved version of Tadese, hopefully he'll not struggle the same when he moves to the marathon.

Rhonex also has a great team around him, Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop are world class and prodigies in their own right. I'm sure if they are in shape, Kimeli and Krop could pace through 5,000m swiftly exchanging turns in 13:05-13:10, then it's all on Rhonex to show what he's made of.

They also need a perfect evening, with little to no wind, temps in the 50s and lots of spectators. If all these come together, he will break it without a doubt.

raw speed wrote:

Yes, he is basically an improved version of Tadese, hopefully he'll not struggle the same when he moves to the marathon.

Rhonex also has a great team around him, Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop are world class and prodigies in their own right. I'm sure if they are in shape, Kimeli and Krop could pace through 5,000m swiftly exchanging turns in 13:05-13:10, then it's all on Rhonex to show what he's made of.

They also need a perfect evening, with little to no wind, temps in the 50s and lots of spectators. If all these come together, he will break it without a doubt.

He obviously has the talent....But track and roads are quite different and it seems Rhonex best performances are all on the road. If i based this attempt on what I've seen on the track by Rhonex, I'd only give him a 26:30 but in the past the Track was always faster...now, I'm not as sure. Very curious to see this attempt.

I will believe it when I see it.

But it would create interest for surre.

It does not work like that. If a 27:XX-guy is surprisingly strong that day and stays with Rhonex Kipruto, maybe you can have a world record after a real fight, but if some elite Ethiopian with a much faster finish stays with him, he won't be able to push smoothly and a WR won't happen.

Let's make an Ethiopian attempt on 5000 and a Kenyan (Brother Colm's group) attempt on 10000.

And if you want a race, Tokyo is what you are looking for.

I second this.

Don't see how he could do it. He would have to run 2x his 5,000 pr (13:07). Hope he gets paid well, but it's not gonna happen.

Les wrote:

Don't see how he could do it. He would have to run 2x his 5,000 pr (13:07). Hope he gets paid well, but it's not gonna happen.

This is not true. That race happened to be 10 days after Peachtree 10k which he won in a course record of 27:01 with a 80F temperature.

That race and the jet lag obviously affected him and this way he 'only managed' a 13'07" . In Valencia his second half was 13:06(not downhill or anything). In an even paced 5000m i'm sure Rhonex could run sub 12:55 if he wants to, maybe closer to 12:50 on a perfect day. So yeah, he has a big chance to break the WR.