Pretty embarrassing that England don't have a full team for this. No Scott, Cairess, or Smith
This year the planning for championship races seems to be not good because the world championships followed three weeks later by the European championships and before that the Commonwealth games in between those two major championships too much too soon. Of course, one assumes that winning European championship is more prestigious compared with winning the Commonwealth championship even though the latter have Kenyans and Ugandans etc. but the cache is not the same.
You would think places that actually care about the commonwealth games - australia, new zealand, scotland, england, wales, northern ireland would send full squads.
You would think places that actually care about the commonwealth games - australia, new zealand, scotland, england, wales, northern ireland would send full squads.
Might be a new concept, but have you heard of qualifying times?
You would think places that actually care about the commonwealth games - australia, new zealand, scotland, england, wales, northern ireland would send full squads.
Probably is that all the nations are given limits on team size. E.g England had 140 athletes that achieved their respective qualifying standard but they could only pick 70 athletes in total. So the selectors focused on, in their view, potential medal winners.
Does Kiplimo just not try when Cheptegei is in the race on a track?
Wins a 27:09 race that went 13:46/13:23 today, closing the last 2kilometers in a phenomenal 5:03 = 2:33.9/2:29.3.
Compare this with Cheptegei in Eugene: a 27:27 race that went 14:01/13:26, last 2k in 5:09 = 2:43/2:25.7 .
I presume conditions were much better here than in Eugene but Kiplimo is really something. I suppose he probably ran in Eugene on something like 6 weeks of training and now he's got 8 or whatever under his belt. Still surprising he doesn't take the golds in WC and Olympics on the track. Not many can handle 5:03 last 2k.
Does Kiplimo just not try when Cheptegei is in the race on a track?
Wins a 27:09 race that went 13:46/13:23 today, closing the last 2kilometers in a phenomenal 5:03 = 2:33.9/2:29.3.
Compare this with Cheptegei in Eugene: a 27:27 race that went 14:01/13:26, last 2k in 5:09 = 2:43/2:25.7 .
I presume conditions were much better here than in Eugene but Kiplimo is really something. I suppose he probably ran in Eugene on something like 6 weeks of training and now he's got 8 or whatever under his belt. Still surprising he doesn't take the golds in WC and Olympics on the track. Not many can handle 5:03 last 2k.
Kiplimo has problems tactically. In the 10,000 at Worlds this year he was pretty far back. He also probably should’ve been on the pace more. It feels like he’s as gifted as Cheptegei but not his equal in finding the best spot to win from.
This was a very strong run from Ebenyo but a disappointing one from Kandie. Kandie is just inconsistent it seems. Some awesome road 10Ks/Half marathons, a great Kenyan Trials win but then duds at Peachtree, here and numerous other races.