and one more thing...the fact that almost all world records from 1500-up have been set with good pacing is good evidence that wavelight is a big factor.
heck, think of how many record attempts have been wrecked by bad pacing.
It’s a little too much. His run tonight was at a Bekele or Geb level and he should have been capable of 8:20 in HS to have been on this path. I don’t at all believe he’s a doper. Are there new shoes on the track comparable to what’s being used for the HM?
Ive always sort of held the east africans to a different standard. I got excited when ritz went sub 13, when solinsky went sub 27, during alan webb's AR.....but I knew deep down this was childs play compared to the africans. At best, I expected the US to remain far back in terms of PRs and hope for a lucky medal or two in the olympics due to tactics/weather. Figured this would never change.
now, we potentially have an american that isn't an african immigrant running bekele, komen, geb like times?
im stunned.
pretty amazing race with lots of asterisks.
Important to remember the East Africans get the crazy time improvements from spikes and tracks and ?(burritos)?? As well.
Sadly, it’s all relative. Someone previously wrote that if Cheptegei was in the race he’d have gone 12:30. Probably true. what’s important for competition is to minimize the gap between USA runners and East African runner times.