devashish_paul wrote:
ToBeasy wrote:
Mo is so hard to beat because of his versatility. As mentioned above his 1500m is crazy fast and of course he can close the last 300-400m insanely. But he also has quite quick personal bests so you can't expect to drop him easily. But a fast race would make it harder for him. Jeez, I consider myself a decent runner with about 33ish 10k. But to watch track is quite frustrating. These guys jog around in 30s for 200m and I think, man, I would need to push all out to just keep up. Amazing.
From what I recall reading, Mo and Galen Rupp can do ~ 49 seconds per 100m. At the London Olympics Mo closed the last mile of the 5000m with a sub 4 and the last lap was 53 seconds. I remember watching it and thinking, "they've come a long way from Bannister when they beat Bannister inside a 5000m Olympic race with no pacers".
Yeah absolutely. And it showes that track (and even Marathon) runners are far from slowtwitch only. They really need some fast firing fibres in their muscles too.
And we can relate to the times because we know what it takes to run a 50s 400. Let alone at the end of a race. But I guess for the average Joe it just looks like brisk running. Especially the africans float so beautifully that it almost looks like jogging in the early stages of race.
10k - 30:48 / half - 1:06:40