Here’s what he had to say. It’s More Complicated Than That", "Kilometers to Miles Conversion Calculator and Table – Convert Kilometers (km) to Miles", "All-time women's best 10000m road race-walk", "Teenager Wang Zhen blazes 37:44 over 10Km in Beijing – IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final", "Wajima (JPN): Excellent Eiki Takahashi on 10km road walk", "News From Around the World - EME NEWS (MAY 10, 2016)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10_kilometres_race_walk&oldid=973832241, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 August 2020, at 13:35. “Joshua has always been [patient]. But the next step was how to get to Monaco. Like you saw in Vienna [with the INEOS 1:59 Challenge], Eliud was doing with the lights and in a different shoe. It tells you that everything is special at every time — the spikes in 1980, the spikes that Gebrselassie was using, the spikes that Kenenisa Bekele was using at that time, they were special at that time.”. 10 kilometers is 6.21 miles. Cheptegei believes there could be even great accomplishments in store and did not want to place limits on himself. Welcome to running-pace.org, yet another running pace calculator. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Talk about this article on our world famous messageboard/fan forum. “We are not in 1980s, we are not in 1990s, we are not in 1970s.

Cheptegei: It wasn’t easy with the airport in Uganda closed.

The current world record for one mile is 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1999. I was really prepared for this world record and six to seven months of actual training was really something longer than I had ever done before. Only recently has Uganda started to develop major stars, such as Cheptegei, 2012 Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich, and 2019 800m world champion Halimah Nakaayi. “The only obstacle was how was I going to get to Monaco because of the travel restrictions,” Cheptegei says. The event is competed as a road race. Time to give him some kudos? With the rest of the year still up in the air, do you have any races you are particularly hoping for heading into an Olympic year? Bearing in mind, because the Kampala airport is still closed, the borders are still closed, so that was the biggest battle.

Cheptegei says locking into 60-second pace wasn’t hard for him — once he passed three kilometers in 7:35, the target times for each subsequent lap were simple. This equates to an average mile time of 4 minutes, 14 seconds. The future: look out for a 10k world record attempt soon When Bekele broke the 5,000 WR in 2004, he followed it up by breaking the 10,000 record eight days later. The Ugandan star clipped six seconds from the previous record of 26:44 set by Kenya's Leonard Patrick Komon in 2010 to complete a sensational 2019 hat-trick that included world titles in cross country and 10,000m on the track. You also stopped your watch at the finish. I was prepared mentally to run the world record even without being paced. I did the 10K world record, I did the 5K world record on the road, and also the 10K road world record, and still, I really wasn’t considered to be among the great athletes in the world. I just wanted to have another challenge of doing something crazy and something special.”. That’s where my dream is now, maybe five years from now. Once you get to the line in Monaco and the race starts, you take off with the pacers. But I missed it, and I still had something in my mind that, ah, yeah, I never got a fast 5k. While Uganda is comparable in size to its next-door neighbor Kenya (Worldometer estimates Uganda’s population at 45 million compared to 53 million for Kenya), Kenya has claimed far more success in distance running over the past 50 years. How we test gear. That means that we never realized our potential in the early ’60s, ’70s. Joshua Cheptegei Will Make 10,000m World Record Attempt in Valencia on October 7, How Joshua Cheptegei Became the World’s Fastest Distance Runner – A Look Back at His Career After 5,000m World Record, Joshua Cheptegei Runs 12:35.36 To Break 5,000-Meter World Record in Monaco, 2018 Memorial Van Damme – Brussels IAAF Diamond League Track and Field, 2018 Weltklasse Zürich – IAAF Diamond League Track and Field.

“If [my coach] is saying the first k is 2:35 [in practice], even if I don’t have a watch, I can still do a 2:35 even without looking at my watch. You definitely have the self-confidence to do that. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. “After pretty much halfway, Joshua was pretty much on or ahead of the light. That is absolutely what I’m heading for. He met van der Velden, who works with Jos Hermens‘ Global Sports Communication, at the TCS World 10K in Bangalore in May, where a 17-year old Cheptegei finished second behind Geoffrey Kamworor, picking up $15,000 in the process as the race is one of the richest 10ks in the world (Kamworor ran 27:44 to Cheptegei’s 28:24). Cheptegei broke Bekele’s record in Nike’s new Dragonfly spikes, which have already produced several fast times this year (Moh Ahmed was wearing them when he ran 12:47 in Portland in July). When they broke off, you appeared to go even faster. My joy was I was able to get home. Behind Rhonex Kipruto’s magnificent world record of 26:24 which shaved 14 seconds off the mark set only last month on a different course in Valencia, Wanders continued his wholesale revision of the European record books by finishing third in 27:13. Runner’s World caught up with Cheptegei, talking about his record run, what the future looks like for the young star, and, yes, why he stopped his watch after crossing the finish line. From independence, there are now nine presidents. But now we’re still just beginning. In a year turned upside-down by the coronavirus pandemic, the young distance runner proved that he is still on his way to be among the greats in the sport. Everyone was talking about Cheptegei’s world record. (LRC Archives: M 10k: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei Comes Back in the Final Lap to Win over Kenya’s Elvis Cheboi). ©2019 World Athletics. [My coach, my management, and I] knew I was in great shape and great form, and the record was not impossible. I really want to continue running on the track for the next four to five years from now, maybe until the next Olympics [in 2024]. “I don’t know. If my coach is saying and Global Sports Communication is saying we can upload it then, yeah, it totally could happen.
LRC Supporters Club members can watch the full interview here. I did close to 10 to 12 special sessions with my coach and that was able to help bring me to the world record pace.

If we had an organized government back then, that means we would be like Kenya. 10,000 metres is the slightly longer metric derivative of the 6-mile run, an event common in countries when they were using the imperial measurement system. The only thing is to remain focused, remain humble, and hope for your dreams. You may also use the buttons below to select a classic popular distance (5K, 10K, Half Marathon, Marathon, 100K or 100-Mile) or an incredible world record pace. When I spoke with the government, they were accepting of the idea. The men’s world record belongs to Kenenisa Bekele — also from Ethiopia — with a time of 26:17.53. We are almost getting close to it. We are really getting new innovations. Cheptegei: Normally, distance runners are used to running with a watch.

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“I’m not still good for fastest last 400, but when it comes to pacing, maintaining a 60, maybe a 59, Cheptegei will always do a 60,” Cheptegei says, referring to himself in the third person. ... [The plan is to] run in Tokyo at the right moment, be in the right shape, and, of course, expect to win the titles.