Yared Nuguse (guest) + Grant Fisher, Jakob, Jacob Kiplimo World Record Onslaught

The winter world record onslaught continued as Jakob Ingebrgitsen got the indoor 1500 and mile records in one race, Grant Fisher ran 12:44 for his second world record in a week, and then Jacob Kiplimo topped it off with the greatest record of the bunch a 56:42 clocking in the half marathon.

We break it all down before we talk to Yared Nuguse @ 70:26 who held the indoor mile world record for 5 days.

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• Show notes:
• 00:00 World record bonanza + Yared Nuguse
• 03:32 Jacob Kiplimo's 56:42 where is the splash page?
• 06:23 Greatest record on the books?
• 14:50 How do you explain it?
• 22:00 Marathon prospects and debut in London
• 25:36 Post of Week
• 27:02 Thread of week: Running Conspiracy theories - Share the wildest story you've heard here
• 31:12 Grant Fisher's 5K World Record
• 34:59 Is he 10k favorite? 39:07 Coaching Dynamics: Jerry Schumacher vs. Mike Scannell
• 42:29 Kejelcha had mile and half marathon records at same time
• 43:10 Big pictures - record bonanza- what's going on?
• 45:44 John's Kellogg's view
• 49:45 US indoors this weekend, will it be streamed?
• 51:56 Keely Hodgkinson and the Keely Klassic
• 55:49 No Grand Slams for Jakob? Would that be a mistake?
• 59:20 Jakob's strategy at Worlds?
• 01:02:29 Have Jakob's chances for Worlds gone up or down this indoor season?
• 01:07:10 Post on Jakob
• 01:10:26 Yared Nuguse joins the show
• 01:11:44 Breaking the World Record
• 01:12:44 Comparing World Records and Olympic Medals
• 01:13:21 Jakob's World Record Attempt
• 01:15:27 Relationship with Jakob
• 01:18:48 Race Strategies and Nerves
• 01:25:30 Any Olympic regret?
• 01:31:06 More aggression?
• 01:35:47 Training and Diet Insights
• 01:42:46 How are Americans so good?
• 01:48:44 Rest of 2025
• 01:50:10 Grand Slam and Future Plans
• 01:54:48 Concluding Thoughts
• 01:56:07 Mike Scannell on Jakob Ingebrigtsen being "the standard" *full interview here

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