Was fine when we briefly chatted at the Leicester and Rutland cross country champs last w/e. Doubt he’d travel to Valencia not prepared, just for sh1ts and giggles, however: “Bit of fun this weekend, no expectations, just excited to challenge myself . . ."
He’ll be more surprised than you if he PBs, given he’ll run the first 5km at 2:50mpk pace: the objective for the first part of the year is London: this is an early waypoint. His (Power-of-10 recorded) 10000m (track) PB is 27:52, in 2018.
Maybe he was ill, but certainly never stopped him from training according to his Strava.
He did around 28:13 I think.
Just waiting for the official results to pop up because there were 2 clocks on screen that were slightly out of sync.
My business partner was in Loughborough at the training centre so I have more confidence in him than your brief hello in passing.
Either way he looked good this morning. Not sure if his actual race plan was the same as being discussed on here but he looked strong the last 10 mins.
Where did he come? Did he beat anyone decent?
He came 29th with an official time of 28:07
The only names I recognise immediately behind him are Marc Scott, Sesseman and Gudisa.
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@SheridanTris you said he was ill in December. I shared he was fine on 4 January. These are compatible. Delighted you have “more confidence” in your colleague: reasonable on several planes.
28:07 is 2:49mpk pace so clearly Yee ran to his expectation. As you say: “he looked strong the last 10 mins”.
Top Brit was Rory Leonard: 27:38 in 15th thrashing the British record jointly held by Farah and Cairess.
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28:08 is fantastic on the roads. 27th place just shows how deep running is rn. 75+ under 29min. Almost 700 under 34min.
Shows 2:09 potential. No reason not to go out in 1:04ish @ London if the weather is good. We know he has good endurance.
On the marathon possibilities 2:07 - I wish him the best, but I’m thinking it’s unlikley.
This always SOUNDS great, and looking at the fitness, on paper might make sense - bit triathletes who attempt to do this often pull up WELL short of what they thought they could do.
I seem to recall Mark Allan at the peak of his career - took an Off Year - had a go at the Marathon. I think 2:10 was the goal. He ran 2:22 as memory serves me correct!
I’d just observe that unlike your example (36 in off year if I have that right), Yee was a sub 28 minute 10000m runner before transitioning to SBR and is only 26 (next month).
Here’s wishing Yee an unbroken build.
Your memory is off just a bit. His goal was 2;18, which I think was olympic qualifying at the time. He got sick just before the attempt, so we will never know what he could have done. He did have a sub 30 10k stand alone and a 2;38 marathon in Kona, so take from that what you will on what his capabilities were at the time…
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Yup those are right.
What makes top triathletes great isn’t that they are world class at the individual sports; it’s that they are nearly world class and can perform close to their single sport level during a triathlon. Brownlee wasn’t a world class 10k runner, but could hammer the swim and bike then run the 10k less than 3s/km off his open best. Same when you look at Mark Allen; Christian Bustos was a 2:17 open marathoner (so faster than Allen), but couldn’t outrun him in an IM.
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Speaking of Alistair, what was his stand alone 10km time?
According to https://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/alistair-brownlee-14367424
10.000 meters: 28:32.48
10 K (Road): 29:15
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Quite amusing watching the worlds best, over 10km in Valencia, to a soundtrack of class A drug promotion!
No surprise to see the names on there I guess. Early season race to get the fitness up. Ages away until any T100 race.
Should be good… As long as it doesn’t “rain” again
So Yee is racing or has his name on their incase he wants to change his mind or something?
Could be either but I suspect Yee is a placeholder. Yee hasn’t got the T100 races to take into account: he can race WTCS after London, but the T100 guys (and Waugh) need to get some points on the board to stay up there to get WTCS starts the next time.
And a mid-February sprint race is going to have zero effect on their T100 campaign which doesn’t kick off till Singapore in early April.
Apologies to those who care for mentioning “T100” (but @jockefc23 said it first) 
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