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Big_G
Big_G
Sep 2024
5:15pm, 15 Sep 2024
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It’s interesting as before the race he was asked what his threshold was and he said 21km/hr!
jda
jda
Sep 2024
5:40pm, 15 Sep 2024
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jda
Actually doing threshold for an hour is often harder than determining what your threshold is :-)
SPR
SPR
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5:45pm, 15 Sep 2024
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Yep, he does lots of threshold training so it makes sense he thinks HM would suit him but racing at that level for an hour is tough. Long continuous session at threshold are tough and taxing which is why most of his threshold stuff is in intervals
Big_G
Big_G
Sep 2024
5:47pm, 15 Sep 2024
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Big_G
Yeah, but that figure was his own estimate of what he thought his threshold was.
SPR
SPR
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5:50pm, 15 Sep 2024
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SPR
I do think he'd have probably got on ok if he'd gone out at 60 pace. I literally turned on as they hit 10km so didn't see how they got there but I read/ heard he thought they started easier than planned initially then picked up so seems he got sucked in to the faster pace.
SPR
SPR
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5:52pm, 15 Sep 2024
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SPR
Given Ingebrigtsen training, I think he knows his threshold 100% but also I wouldn't be surprised if he just said 21km as ball park as clearly whatever he said would be calculated as a race time.
Fields
Fields
Sep 2024
5:55pm, 15 Sep 2024
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Fields
LA 2028 attempt at 5000/10000 / marathon perhaps
Big_G
Big_G
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6:02pm, 15 Sep 2024
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Don’t know SPR. The interviewer asked him what he’d prefer - it was something like choosing between winning in 59:59 or losing in 58:XX. And he replied something along the lines of ‘either would be nice’ (that’s all paraphrasing). Just from that I think he was expecting better, but looking back it’s also quite clear one of the commentators felt he was struggling prior to 10K, saying he felt the athlete was breathing heavily at that early stage.

I’ll try and dig it out, but it was one of the main interviews he did before the event.
jda
jda
Sep 2024
6:11pm, 15 Sep 2024
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jda
A hm is 21.095 km :-)
jda
jda
Sep 2024
6:15pm, 15 Sep 2024
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jda
It's worth noting that "threshold" is a slightly woolly definition anyway. A specified lactate level or VO2 uptake estimated through lab testing may simply not be something that a given athlete can sustain for an hour whatever the intentions of the testing is.

It's not like he would ever have run 21km in an hour as a training piece.

His comment was probably just him being a bit of a smart alec anyway.

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