Spar Cup Results - Olu Fasuba 6.49!!

[arnie365]

@pierrejean

Percy Spencer JAM 6.71 indoor, 9.98 outdoor
Patrick Johnson AUS 6.69 indoor, 9.93 outdoor
Of course, dring their sub10 outdoors, they were necessarily faster than 6.60 at 60m point.

if u want 2 run a sub 10 u have 2 pass the 60m in atleast 6.49s-6.52s on route 2 the 100m according 2 the average 60/100 diferential.

[arnie365]

it’s a pitty morne nagel was not in this race cos he seems 2 b closing in on fasuba’s pace. .04s in russia with 6.67 to 6.63 and .03s in dusseldorf with a 6.61 to 6.58. i think that he could have maybe run 6.52 or better who knows.

[pierrejean]

Difficult to compare, because in Dusseldorf, Morne had a 0.109 reaction time and Olu 0.153, and in Moscow, Olu completely missed his start.

[arnie365]

@walrusgod

what about carl lewis?

in 1988 carl ran 6.48 for 60m on route 2 his 9.92 wr.

[mortac8]

@arnie365

his reaction time in the heat where he ran 6.55 was .11 slower than the final where he ran 6.57. i agree it was a tough field and i believe that is what got 2 him.

You mean .011. An almost irrelevant difference.

[martn76]

@walrusgod

what about carl lewis?

Lewis never ran faster than 6.60 secs indoors I think. That doesn’t mean that he wasn’t capable of a 6.5 or 6.4X secs clocking. You can’t ran 9.90 secs or faster going through the 60 mark in a slower time than 6.40-49 secs, if you do then you better be capable of 12+ m/s, now that would be something special. A 10.1X secs clocking needs 6.50-6.59 secs 60m clocking. Lewis went through the 60 m mark in 6.46 secs when he ran 9.86 secs in Tokyo 1991…a truelly magical race if you consider that six men went under 10 and two ran 10.2 secs and Lewis seemed to be behind until the end of the race. It would be very hard for any athlete to make up those 100th of secs if they went through the 60m slower than 6.50 secs. A sobering thought and more validation for a short to long approach.

[martn76]

@maris

wasn’t carl’s pb 6.59 for 60m? christian’s problems aren’t mental i don’t think. he would admit he could have worked harder over the past few years and he’s trying to put it right now. craig on the other hand has a very professional attitude and work ethic, and always has. i know both of these guys very well and i can see the differences, but i would definitely argue that christian never bottled it as such, it was just a shock for him perhaps, as junior success came so easy, and it was harder to come by at the senior level, so he had to work harder than he was used to, and it takes a while to adjust to that.

Harder or smarter?

[mortac8]

@martn76

Lewis never ran faster than 6.60 secs indoors I think. That doesn’t mean that he wasn’t capable of a 6.5 or 6.4X secs clocking. You can’t ran 9.90 secs or faster going through the 60 mark in a slower time than 6.40-49 secs, if you do then you better be capable of 12+ m/s, now that would be something special. A 10.1X secs clocking needs 6.50-6.59 secs 60m clocking. Lewis went through the 60 m mark in 6.46 secs when he ran 9.86 secs in Tokyo 1991…a truelly magical race if you consider that six men went under 10 and two ran 10.2 secs and Lewis seemed to be behind until the end of the race. It would be very hard for any athlete to make up those 100th of secs if they went through the 60m slower than 6.50 secs. A sobering thought and more validation for a short to long approach.

http://www.carllewis.com/carlstats6.html

[arnie365]

@mortac8

You mean .011. An almost irrelevant difference.

not really cos the .011 should have atleast equated 2 6.539 or faster bt was’nt.

[bro]

@martn76

Lewis never ran faster than 6.60 secs indoors I think. That doesn’t mean that he wasn’t capable of a 6.5 or 6.4X secs clocking. You can’t ran 9.90 secs or faster going through the 60 mark in a slower time than 6.40-49 secs, if you do then you better be capable of 12+ m/s, now that would be something special. A 10.1X secs clocking needs 6.50-6.59 secs 60m clocking. Lewis went through the 60 m mark in 6.46 secs when he ran 9.86 secs in Tokyo 1991…a truelly magical race if you consider that six men went under 10 and two ran 10.2 secs and Lewis seemed to be behind until the end of the race. It would be very hard for any athlete to make up those 100th of secs if they went through the 60m slower than 6.50 secs. A sobering thought and more validation for a short to long approach.

WELL DONE! it took you a while but you finally got it.

[AUT_71]

I don’t want to pick on poor Jason. I remember when Nagel clocked 6.48 indoors, but failed to break 10 outdoors.
But Gardener had 6.46 indoors, 10.12 outdoors following summer.
So, between January and June a lot of things can go wrong…Gardener does Long-to-short with Arnold. So I would expect a lot, but not such a “weak” last 40m?

@jumper

Yepishin and Pickering this year will be the great white hopes…

Personally I don’t care about the colour of the hopes, but if you do I’d keep my eyes on the 18 years old German Christian Blum, too.