Couldn't find Rupp's 3:50.92 results...

[odelltrclan]

No, " running fast from the gun ALSO considered a 'race tactic" is a race strategy, not a racing tactic -- as a strategy it works fine when you are much better than your opponents and would likely win anyway. When you are not much better than they are (the situation everyone is in at the top levels) it is almost always a poor strategy.

Rudisha is a cut above the rest and did succeed at the OGs, but the same strategy the next race cost him, didn't it. For him, it is not good strategy to have it go slow so that everyone is still in it with 200 to go, but even there he is reputed to have possibly the best 400 capability and he might do pretty well letting other race plans play out.

Not to mention the fact that the benefits of drafting for an 800, especially with staggered starts pale in comparison to what benefits you get / or lose in a 5k or 10k. There are simply few guys, if any at the current level who could count on breaking away in top level races. With teamwork sacrificing for their "captain" perhaps, but not individually. Hence most guys waiting until the final 3 or 4 laps to show their strategies.

[az2004]

a championship style race has far more surging than a diamond league race where the pacers are all set out for a fastt race

i prefer the championship race, where you wont know exactly who will do what when, although we tend to know who the sitters are

the daegu 10k, i recollect thinking farah had the race won with 200 to go

a 10k has so many moves, enjoying who makes the early pace, the variety of attempts to

match this up with a diamond league race

the gebremeskel - rupp style race in boston is also a race to enjoy

but neither is 100% now wait till august

and i think thisis RUPP year

[Dave]

Goodness, you posters have finally woken up to Rupp's performance which was totally ignored when I posted on the current thread, called "2013 indoor results" . The next half a dozen or so posts after my drawing attention to Rupps Boston race were all about some athletes a little less significant than what Rupp had achieved. Weird lot you posters.!

Well, luckily we have YOU now to keep us abreast of the important stuff . . .

Until Rupp went sub 27 and then won the silver medal, I had great hopes. Now I have great expectations. Now we have this indoor mile to validate those expectations. It will be fascinating to see what he can do this year. He is clearly in wonderful form.

[no one]

Running a race really fast will demonstrate that he has the wheels but will not really change the fact that he has or does not have the wheels.

I'm not following this ... maybe I'm really getting old (which I am)

[Marlow]

Running a race really fast will demonstrate that he has the wheels but will not really change the fact that he has or does not have the wheels.

I'm not following this ... maybe I'm really getting old (which I am)

That's because 26m had a blotclot occluding his logic-artery.

[26mi235]

Running a race really fast will demonstrate that he has the wheels but will not really change the fact that he has or does not have the wheels.

I'm not following this ... maybe I'm really getting old (which I am)

He can have 'the wheels' without using a race strategy that specifically displays them; is that better?

[az2004]

personally, i'll wait till august to see who show what they got that;s when any runner should be 100%

right now, i see races at being prep working on what you need for the big races

rupp and gebremeskel in boston is anticipation for when it counts

and we have a few other guys who we should not discount

farah is still a major factor