Good job. I also do much faster in maju. This year didn’t sub 9 cause of my injury but still got 50 pts for my age haha. Did you go ask for the patch, they will give sub 9 min runners an ippt patch haha
I wasn’t prepared to run in Maju initially since I was expecting the ippt to be conducted at Clementi Camp (same as what I did last year). So, I ran 1 mile at 8.30 2.4k pace in Clementi camp on Tuesday before Friday ippt. But ippt got shifted to Maju due to wet weather plan concerns. So, I had to adapt to running in Maju camp (which I ran 2 years ago).
I don’t think the patch is given since I did the ippt with NSmen conducting instead of the regular ippt booking. And I don’t plan to do regular ippt due to busy schedule, maybe if there’s no ippt in reservist, then I will decide to run the regular one.
Cole hocker should win. Few reasons why:
1. He already does 600s in his training runs. While Kerley, probably does 60s/100s.
2. Kerley downgrade from 400 to 100/200, becoming more of 100 guy. Will likely lack the endurance to keep up with Hocker towards the end.
3. Cole hocker has a deadly kick, a lot of people underestimate him for this. Built more like a 800 runner.
I think Kerley got a chance if he is still running 400m but after the downgrade to 100m, will be quite tough.
Tebogo is a different case. Explosive 200m, 300m WR, world class 400m times.
I will give Tebogo the edge against Hocker even though he never raced 600m, given how talented he is and also being known for gap closing.
Congrats on getting the gold and incentive u going to receive
I feel anyone who can run below 10 mins after NS is already fast. During my reservist period where I took IPPT . I ran 11mins 11 sec on my last cycle when I was 37 years old where I did run regularly during that period .
Unless those who ran IPPT are as serious runner like u. Don't think they will ever want to spend more than $150 on a carbon plated running shoe which probably cost even more
Gold wasn’t easy. I wanted to get gold most importantly amongst all of my running goals. So, quite thankful to get it this year.
Ippt 2.4K is generally always harder since got to do push up and sit up. And without transition training like my case, the 2.4K times in ippt will be a lot worse than the actual. I also didn’t wear carbon plated shoes for my ippt.
I think I should be able to get low 8.20 or high 8.10, if I run without push up/sit up + carbon plated shoes, based on training though.