Up-Tempo Talks - Running Headlines (5k World Record, Trial Runners Attempt FKTs) 2020/08/27
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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In this week's Up-Tempo Talks episode, Coach Ruairi talks about the new 5k world record at Monaco Diamond League, FKT (Fastest Known Time) phenomenon among trail runners, and a showdown on the 1500m Irish National Championships. Listen now!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, up-tempo talks? This is going to be |
| 0:07.3 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Up Tempo Talks. This is going to be a solo episode with Coach Roy Moynihan here. |
| 0:16.9 | Coach Dylan is currently enjoying vacation, so we'll let him do his thing and I'll take over today's episode which will be all about the the latest news in the distance running world |
| 0:28.6 | This could include events from the trail scene the road scene the track scene pretty much anything goes it's been a |
| 0:36.2 | couple of weeks since we did this last episode and a lot happened so let's get into it one of the key events that we talked about was a big track meet hosted by the Diamond League in Monaco. It took place last two weeks ago on Friday evening and man it had a lot of competition the biggest news by |
| 0:56.7 | far from this meet had to be Joshua chieftagai of Uganda's world record in the 5k. He covered 5,000 meters in a blazing time of 1235. |
| 1:08.7 | So yeah, his time of 1235 beat the previous world record set 16 years ago by Kenanisha Bachelet. |
| 1:16.3 | You may know him he's about to face off with Elliot Kepchoki in the London Marathon, of course, a phenomenal runner. |
| 1:23.1 | So the fact that he beat this record |
| 1:25.9 | under these circumstances was really impressive. |
| 1:29.2 | We will point out there were some advantages |
| 1:31.4 | that people are going to argue that he had. |
| 1:33.7 | Let's Run did a great interview with him. They did a, I believe it was like a Zoom call |
| 1:39.2 | or it was part of their podcast. But anyway, they had a great conversation in which he shed some light on his thoughts on this. |
| 1:46.0 | He was wearing the Nike Dragonfly Zoom spike. |
| 1:49.1 | I believe that's how you say the name, but basically, it seems to be the track version of the Nike vapor fly |
| 1:55.4 | it has a carbon fiber plate it retails for a lot it's selling for about $150. |
| 2:01.2 | It's really hard to get a hold of right now. But anyway he |
| 2:05.0 | commented on the technology and pointed out that Bachelet when he set his |
| 2:09.8 | world record was wearing spikes at the time that would have been considered very |
| 2:14.3 | advanced in comparison to the previous world record holder. So I think he has a |
| 2:19.8 | fair point there. Technology is going to be involving. Of course we have new |
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