As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
He’ll probably still win the 5k gold even as a shadow of his best self
I think Nuguse, Kerr, or Nordas will win the 1500m. Maybe Laros as the dark horse he may show up in 3:29/1:43 shape
As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
I would expect Jakob is just been smart and super conservative about getting back to full training, especially considering it’s an Olympic year. With his methodical and scientific approach to his training you can be sure he’s got every day mapped out between now and the Olympics and achieving his peak state of fitness by then.
I've been running with achilles tendonitis since last summer. It hasn't got worse (in fact it's 50% better). But tendonitis / tendinopathy is something that sticks around for a long time. If he truely wants to get over it he either needs to wear a boot and do nothing for a couple of months or get steroids on it.
As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
To be fair, he doesn’t need to announce exactly where he is in his training. Keeping quiet about it might be a competitive edge for him given he did have some injury setbacks this winter. I think the field would react differently to thinking he was in 3:30 shape, but in reality, he was back to 3:28 shape.
As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
Jakob not only will win Gold, but he's going to explode the field and win by the largest margin ever in Olympic history.
I have insider knowledge that his brother Filip is coming back to peak form, and their plan is to qualify for the final and sacrifice himself. Filip is going to play the pacer for Jakob, and we're talking 3:26:5X pace.
I call BS on that. There's no way Jakob would want to win like that. That was the El Guerrouj tactic. Jakob won't want people saying he only won because he had a pacer. And if Filip returns to peak form, he'll surely want a medal for himself.
As time continues without any announcement from Jakob Ingebritsen about resuming “normal” training instead of his hours on the elliptical, I am growing increasingly worried about his prospects this summer in Paris. Does he have a shot considering the finals are in 5 months and he’s not able to run high volume without suffering from injury? At what point is it time to throw in the towel and concede that Kerr (and maybe even Naguse and Wightman) probably all have a better chance at gold?
Can confirm that he’s returned to 100% training
Treadmill isn't proper training. He is rushing back, probably against conventional wisdom as tendons don't heal that quickly.
Dang. He’s in a hole. Even my daughter said look how soft his legs are, no real pop. But in the same breathe we said that Kerr has to maintain all the way to July. Nothing is guaranteed
Dang. He’s in a hole. Even my daughter said look how soft his legs are, no real pop. But in the same breathe we said that Kerr has to maintain all the way to July. Nothing is guaranteed
Dude what are you going on about? You’re drawing lines on things that don’t even exist, he looks like he’s gliding at threshold pace. And even if there wasn’t any pop in his legs as you claim, why does it matter when he’s only been in dull training for at most a couple weeks?