Hobbs Kessler is in MONSTER shape right now

LarsL9 wrote:

hiney licker wrote:

As a non coach, I would say that you massively over analyze and probably get in the way of your athletes because of this.

Agreed. He is not in monster shape etc. Let the kid run without pretending that he is the threatening the elite (now). Then he might get peace to train and maybe actually get to a level where it makes sense to call him an incredible talent and say that he is in monster shape.

3:34 as a 17/18yo isn't enough to qualify as “incredible talent”?

This is truly an odd place.

Hobbs appears to be in great shape and the sky is the limit. More importantly, if you watch the VNTC youtube videos he appears to be having lots of fun and has a great relationship with training partners and coach.

Sky is the limit.

Good grief he is a talent. So glad he skipped the garbage that is the ncaa.

utterly delusional and quite frankly racist. we will have to wait to see how bob hess-ler flops

zxcvzxc wrote:

I don't think that you do athletes a service by not calculating their likely race pace by reference to workouts. There's just too much useful information that you're not using.

But that’s not what he did.

He said, “if you can do X workout now, then you can probably do Y workout in 2 Years. and if you can do Y workout in 2 years, then you can probably race ABC time”

Of course you have predictions for current fitness, but let’s not go nuts making predictions on future workouts to extrapolate PRs in several years. just let the kid run.

jijiji wrote:

UM invite wrote:

Yup 7:59 and it was almost exactly what an earlier comment predicted. 4:23 through 1600m (slow!), then two more 200s in like 33 so 5:29 at 2K, and the last 1K in exactly 2:30. I didn't see it but I bet it was easy AF for Hobbs & Ferlic. Hobbs could probably run close to 7:45 right now.

7:59.41

11th best US junior performance of all time (absolute), in what was basically a workout.

Hobbs did look strained however (I hope so).

He could challenge Jim Ryun’s US junior record of 7:47.8. That record has been around since 1966!!

Hmm that's the u20 US record? You'd have to think Fisher could have done that when he ran 7:50 in his first collegiate race as a freshman. Hell Nico could've done it last year

rhimby wrote:

Hmm that's the u20 US record? You'd have to think Fisher could have done that when he ran 7:50 in his first collegiate race as a freshman. Hell Nico could've done it last year

Could have, should have…

Fernandez came the closest.

Crazy to think that a Junior kid was running 7:47.8 fifty five years ago (in leather spikes…)

55 years is a long time.

7:47.8 is not a slam dunk for Kessler, but he has a shot

German Fernandez also ran 7:47 as an 18 year old freshman at OK State.

The result lists it as a AU20R. That's on an oversized track. He was 18 and 4 months at the time, born in November 1990.

3000 Metres 7:47.97 * Seattle, WA (USA) 14 FEB 2009 AU20R

Apustajan wrote:

no you are stupid because i am pretty sure you would agree that many mediocre athletes are faster than hundreds of millions of other people. the point is you yanks sre hopping this kid up to achieve things when he will do no such thing. maybe in america which is a mediocre running country when compsred to how big it is and the resources and misinformation they pour into it.

Here is the post you replied to from Oh, poo!:

There is nothing mediocre here. (1) Hobbs is an extraordinary talent (fastest 1,500 meter runner ever of hundreds of millions of US boys), and (2) your post indicates extraordinarily sub-mediocre reasoning. Please stop with your stupidity and your anti-peaceful whining. You need to elevate your thinking to rise to mediocrity.

Please observe that Oh, poo! did not write that Kessler was merely faster than "hundreds of millions of other people" but the "fastest 1,500 meter runner ever of hundreds of millions of US boys." Do you not grasp the meaning of fastest? If you do why did you dilute it? A high school kid ran 3:34 and according to you it's mediocre on the global scene. You've failed to persuade. If he does nothing superior to that he still he has achieved quite a lot.

ringo-starr wrote:

UM invite wrote:

Yup 7:59 and it was almost exactly what an earlier comment predicted. 4:23 through 1600m (slow!), then two more 200s in like 33 so 5:29 at 2K, and the last 1K in exactly 2:30. I didn't see it but I bet it was easy AF for Hobbs & Ferlic. Hobbs could probably run close to 7:45 right now.

Also roughly what Warhurst said, at about 5:55 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1N8FqeTqIc&t=355s

He said go out in 4:20, finish up in 2:30, finish 3000 under 8 minutes.

Finals

1 Kessler, Hobbs Adidas 7:59.41%

33.644 (33.644)

1:05.652 (32.008)

1:38.518 (32.866)

2:11.619 (33.102)

2:44.422 (32.803)

3:17.304 (32.882)

3:50.453 (33.149)

4:23.480 (33.028)

4:56.254 (32.774)

5:28.859 (32.605)

5:59.074 (30.215)

6:29.180 (30.107)

7:00.606 (31.426)

7:31.033 (30.427)

7:59.405 (28.372)

So the first 1600m was 4:23.482

And the last was 4:08.954

That's solid work.

Sub-9 guy wrote:

Apustajan wrote:

why do you yanks always go on and on about mediocre talent. please give us some peace

Normally I would agree with you, but he’s no ordinary talent. Has medal and AR potential at least. He may very well be the first US dude to get under 3:30 for 1500 if Hocker doesn’t beat him too it. This year even.

What you really mean is first white person

another perspective wrote:

the phenom is back wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1N8FqeTqIc

He's gonna do something special at Millrose

Would be nice to know recovery on these reps. Like you can't say something is a monster workout unless you know recovery. A 39 second 300 is nothing without context, like top middle distance women could hit 39-40 if they had enough recovery, but hitting 39s off of 2min recovery is hard for even world class dudes.

Recoveries are right under the Vid. And as an answer by Willis.

sad news wrote:

Sub-9 guy wrote:

Normally I would agree with you, but he’s no ordinary talent. Has medal and AR potential at least. He may very well be the first US dude to get under 3:30 for 1500 if Hocker doesn’t beat him too it. This year even.

What you really mean is first white person

Nope. What I meant was “US born.” A likely doper immigrating from Kenya just doesn’t fit for me. Sorry, not sorry.

Sub-9 guy wrote:

sad news wrote:

What you really mean is first white person

Nope. What I meant was “US born.” A likely doper immigrating from Kenya just doesn’t fit for me. Sorry, not sorry.

And Sydney Maree?

I agree, here's their latest video. Also seems like they weren't straining too hard but impossible to tell. Only time will tell if he's legit or not.

https://youtu.be/lfNyVlnr3O8

birdbeard wrote:

Sub-9 guy wrote:

Nope. What I meant was “US born.” A likely doper immigrating from Kenya just doesn’t fit for me. Sorry, not sorry.

And Sydney Maree?

Again, not US born. However, I really liked him, and, in my opinion, his is the true, unsketchy AR.

gold medalist wrote:

zxcvzxc wrote:

With that short arm swing of his, he looks like 1:29.6 pace on 600s is incredibly easy. He then runs a 1:24 and finishes up a set of 43s 300s with a 39. 3k Saturday going out in 4:20 then running 1k in 2:30 and finishing a bit under 8 (probably under 7:50 in reality) then Millrose mile probably in 3:50-51.

3:51 mile are you living in a dream

The dude ran 3:34 last year in high school for 1500, and he is still at an age of making rapid gains. He couldn't handle rounds at the trials, but in a one off race last year he wouldn't be too far off from Nuguse. Now that gap has probably shrunk. Would you be shocked if Nuguse ran 3:51? I wouldn't, so I wouldn't be shocked if Hobbs ran 3:51. Though I think a 3:54 is more likely. He will run a time that would make him an NCAA title contender if he would've gone to the NCAA, and we've got a couple 3:54's there already.

delusional message boards wrote:

LarsL9 wrote:

Agreed. He is not in monster shape etc. Let the kid run without pretending that he is the threatening the elite (now). Then he might get peace to train and maybe actually get to a level where it makes sense to call him an incredible talent and say that he is in monster shape.

3:34 as a 17/18yo isn't enough to qualify as “incredible talent”?

This is truly an odd place.

Exactly, full of a bunch of 7 minute milers trashing truly great talent.

What is sad is it is indicative of the problem in society, too many jerks and not enough kind encouragers.

These MB are full of "run a pr" everytime knuckleheads. Truly unreal.

You are such a chud