HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wale runs 7:24:98 in 3000m indoor

Accidental lap miscount? LEADS TO A NEAR WR???

INCREDIBLE

7:24.98 FOR WALE

7:26.10 FOR BAREGA

7:27.98 FOR GIRMA

GOTTA REDO OLYMPIC 2020 PREDICTIONS NOW BABY

Never get excited about a fast 3000 on a modern indoor track. There's a reason they never go that fast outdoors

Bad Wigins wrote:

Never get excited about a fast 3000 on a modern indoor track. There's a reason they never go that fast outdoors

Every once in awhile you state something which at some level is ridiculous but has some ring of veracity. You are incorrect to minimize the performance BUT you are correct that indoor performances are often faster than outdoor and most do not understand this. Well done.

super spikes are here and shaking things up. track records are going to fall at an unprecedented rate this year

I don't know, but I would be shocked if all three weren't wearing super spikes. That is a monstrous performance by a guy not in the top ten 5k runners in the world.

what was girma doing on that last lap? he fought off a charging wale on the straightaway before the bell, then on the turn moved into the second lane and looked behind him, almost waving them on, and then appeared to tie up. looked like he was just out of gas but it happened so fast.

jabouko wrote:

Accidental lap miscount? LEADS TO A NEAR WR???

INCREDIBLE

7:24.98 FOR WALE #4 indoor-outdoor

7:26.10 FOR BAREGA, #13 indoor-outdoor

7:27.98 FOR GIRMA, #36, indoor-outdoor

GOTTA REDO OLYMPIC 2020 PREDICTIONS NOW BABY

Early kicks really pay off.

xczvzxcv wrote:

jabouko wrote:

Accidental lap miscount? LEADS TO A NEAR WR???

INCREDIBLE

7:24.98 FOR WALE #4 indoor-outdoor

7:26.10 FOR BAREGA, #13 indoor-outdoor

7:27.98 FOR GIRMA, #36, indoor-outdoor

GOTTA REDO OLYMPIC 2020 PREDICTIONS NOW BABY

Early kicks really pay off.

Should it be called the Lopez Lomong effect?

Charlie Stache wrote:

what was girma doing on that last lap? he fought off a charging wale on the straightaway before the bell, then on the turn moved into the second lane and looked behind him, almost waving them on, and then appeared to tie up. looked like he was just out of gas but it happened so fast.

The lap indications were wrong, Girma probably thought it was the last lap and thought about stopping when he heard the bell.

I'm too lazy to look it up, please tell me if this is an indoor WR.

sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:

I'm too lazy to look it up, please tell me if this is an indoor WR.

No, but the second best time ever and only behind Komen's "mount everest".

Seppo Kaitenenn wrote:

I don't know, but I would be shocked if all three weren't wearing super spikes. That is a monstrous performance by a guy not in the top ten 5k runners in the world.

Not sure if you mean strictly on the basis of toplists, but I think today’s performance suggests Wale is now a top-10 5k runner. Remember, he’s only 20 years old, and the last year has been strange. New stars will never stop coming.

Moron#5 wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Never get excited about a fast 3000 on a modern indoor track. There's a reason they never go that fast outdoors

Every once in awhile you state something which at some level is ridiculous but has some ring of veracity. You are incorrect to minimize the performance BUT you are correct that indoor performances are often faster than outdoor and most do not understand this. Well done.

Reminds me of Alamirew running 7:27 easy in the early 2011 then not really looking the same outdoors

Baba Yaga wrote:

sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:

I'm too lazy to look it up, please tell me if this is an indoor WR.

No, but the second best time ever and only behind Komen's "mount everest".

Wow 0.08 off the record. Now I have to ask the obligatory "what shoes was he wearing?"

jabouko wrote:

Accidental lap miscount? LEADS TO A NEAR WR???

INCREDIBLE

7:24.98 FOR WALE

7:26.10 FOR BAREGA

7:27.98 FOR GIRMA

GOTTA REDO OLYMPIC 2020 PREDICTIONS NOW BABY

Incredible performance.

When the two Jabobs ran 7:26 and 7:27 last summer, those were the fastest 3k times since August of 2007.

Now this. Amazing.

WR is 7:24.90

Great run!

Moron#5 wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Never get excited about a fast 3000 on a modern indoor track. There's a reason they never go that fast outdoors

Every once in awhile you state something which at some level is ridiculous but has some ring of veracity. You are incorrect to minimize the performance BUT you are correct that indoor performances are often faster than outdoor and most do not understand this. Well done.

the trope that I'm usually wrong about things is invariably repeated by unregistered cowards who don't back up their own comments.

And it can't excuse your faulty reasoning: if I'm correct that indoor 3000 is faster now than outdoor, then I'm correct to minimize the performance too.

Fact is, there's really no way to compare it even to other indoor times, except on that track on that day.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Moron#5 wrote:

Every once in awhile you state something which at some level is ridiculous but has some ring of veracity. You are incorrect to minimize the performance BUT you are correct that indoor performances are often faster than outdoor and most do not understand this. Well done.

the trope that I'm usually wrong about things is invariably repeated by unregistered cowards who don't back up their own comments.

And it can't excuse your faulty reasoning: if I'm correct that indoor 3000 is faster now than outdoor, then I'm correct to minimize the performance too.

Fact is, there's really no way to compare it even to other indoor times, except on that track on that day.

IF you were only a little smarter you would realize that even though indoors is often faster, a sub 7:25 indoors is still worth celebrating. The only argument against it is really if you combine the fact that indoors is often faster with possibly a shoe advantage which you are too stupid to acknowledge.

it is/was however with boing boing shoes we'll see it destroyed like we had with the sub 13.

boing boing boing