#42

Fucking hell

She cleared it

New Swedish record in those circumstances

Nuts

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#43

You’re ahead of the UK coverage, it seems, so watch those spoilers!

#44

Well now I can’t post at all can I?

#45

Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce - probably the best female sprinter ever?

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#46

SAFP is ridiculous
love dasher smith
jessica ennis goodnight

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#47

:slight_smile:

#48

You’d think this but it’s actually harder on a track due to the bends. I went through 5k quicker in a 10k I ran last year than my best 5k on a track. Also, on those ‘age adjusted time’ websites it asked whether your time is track or roads and the track times are higher.

#49

I hope the amount of kickbacks the IAAF got for choosing Doha to host were worth the embarrassment factor of an empty stadium for their highest profile event - you’d think at the very least they’d choose somewhere that offers bribes and the guarantee of people actually watching. For all the IOC’s faults, at least they were never ever daft enough (so far anyway) to pick Doha as an Olympics host.

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#50

Interesting. Imagine mine would still best my road PBs as they’ve all been done on quite twisty and hilly courses. But maybe I just need to find a flat road 5k to run

#51

I could be talking nonsense but that is my personal experience. I was becoming frustrated with being unable to break 20mins for 5k on the track going flat out when I was going through 5k during road 10ks in about 20:30 (or less) obviously pacing myself for the extra 5k.

The age adjusted time site is this one: https://runbundle.com/tools/age-grading-calculator

Put on a 10k road time and then look at the equivalent track performances table. The 10k time is slightly higher (for my age and PB anyway).

#52

Strange. It’s knocking 33s off my road 5k PB for my projected track time

#53

But it also projects me as a 3:03 marathon runner and that is incredibly generous

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#54

Saw Shelly-Ann Fraser run at the world championships in Berlin in 09, incredible

#55

Ah, it seems to be the distance. My track 5k is also quicker than road 5k but the other way around for 10k. Can’t think why it would be like that.

Based on my best 10k time last year my equivalent road half marathon time is 1:30! I reckon that’s about 10 minutes quicker than I could do it (although I haven’t actually tried) so I think these calculations shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

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#56

Miguel Francis? Has to be good to keep Nathaniel Mitchell-Blake out of the GB team!

I’m quietly hoping for a British medal in the final. Gemili really looked like he had a point to prove and Hughes will have been disappoined too.

#57

If Bolt hadn’t been the global star he was, there’d be a case for best sprinter ever.

Dina was amazing last night and has to be the favourite for the 200m now.

#58

Yeah, it was Francis

He ran just 3 hundredths slower than Gemili in a heat where he was clearly just cruising to conserve energy

I see he ran 19.88 as his PB in 2016

Should be a 4x100m team with real medal prospects

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#59

Defending champs! Would love it if they could retain.

#60

I was in the stadium that night. Great race (apart from Bolt pulling up)

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#61

That empty stadium last night was an embarrassment