Narve Gilje Nordås (23) believes that the almost undivided attention of his coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen is the reason why he is now able to qualify for the 1500 and 5000 meters at the World Athletics Championships in a month and a half.
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– I get more personal follow-up when everything is geared towards what’s around me. I “got” the pace I should have in training instead of going too fast – as is often the case when it’s all about Jakob, Narve Gilje Nordås answers the question of what Gjert Ingebrigtsen has “given him”.
Take a good look after it was discovered in February that Gjert Ingebrigtsen will no longer work as coach for his three sonsOlympic gold winner Jakob, European Championship gold winner and World Cup bronze winner Filip, and European Championship gold winner Henrik.
Gjert Ingebrigtsen’s number shrunk to three, Narve Gilje NordsPer Svela (30) and teenager Benjamin Storm Retore (18).
In Spanish Huelva on Wednesday Narve lowered Gilje Nordås’ personal record of 1500 meters in three seconds, to 3,36,23. Only three Norwegians outrun the Jakob brothers (3.38.32), Filip (3.30.01) and Henrik Ingebrigtsen (3.31.46). The qualifying time requirement for the distance to the WC 15. – 24. July is 3.35.00.
On April 13, he ran with a time of 28.04.42 just over 10 seconds below the qualifying requirements (28.15.00) for the European Championship (15-21 August Munich) in the 10,000 meters. Next Friday, he targets to meet the 5,000 meters qualifying time requirement for the World Championships in Eugene 15-24. July. That will probably happen during the Continental Tour event in Manchester, with Gjert Ingebrigtsen on the sidelines.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen – who has taken over coaching responsibilities for himself, Filip and Jakob – is also registered for the same event, according to the organizers’ website.
– You can hope, but easier said than done. If conditions are good, and race with a good rabbit, he can go, says Narve Gilje Nords.
He pointed out that conditions were tough – a headwind – and that the rabbits were starting too hard, and he was “long” last on the court, when he won the 1500 meters in Spain on Wednesday.
If he manages to lower his personal record of 5,000 meters (13,16.67) in just three seconds, he can opt for the Bislett Games mileage race on June 16, with Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Filip Ingebrigtsen on the same starting field, instead of the 5000 meter Duel. against Henrik Ingebrigtsen during the Diamond League competition in Oslo.
– It will be a convincing factor to have qualified for both distances to the WC. Then I can choose. If it’s very hot there (in Eugene), it might be a good idea to focus on 1500 instead of 5,000 meters, Narve Gilje Nordås explains.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen recently qualified – easily – for 5,000 meters in the WC, to be able to run both distances in the championshipwhere 1500 meters will do before the initial heat of 5000 meters.
Narve Gilje Nordås guesses that he has the capacity to push his 1500 times to 3.34 and 3.33 “this year”. In the long term, he deems it impossible to push himself during Henrik Ingebrigtsen’s best time at a distance (3,31.46 at Monaco 2014).
He said he was unsure whether good timing and performance in the one-mile race would count towards qualifying in the 1500 meters for the World Cup. Otherwise, he envisages running another 1,500 meters before the qualifying deadline expires on June 26.
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