Olympic Runner Reacts to NEW 5K WORLD RECORD!!!  

Imagine doing a 4 minute mile. And another one. And another one. And then kick for another 200m.

He was wearing the “Nike ZoomX Dragonfly’s “ Nick Symonds.

Love the fact you went out the way to create this additional channel for us instead of solely focusing on viral videos, it shows that you really do care about your audience.

I didn’t think I’d see Bekele’s record broken until my late 20s, it was easily the most dominant world record ever.

Your 5k pb is 15:49? That's so awesome dude because that is exactly what mine is! I love it. I have same 5k pb as World Championship 800m silver medalist. That just made my day. lol

Honestly I cried after seeing this record. It’s amazing what the human body can do. 💪 Onto my own 5km PB now!

"We need to have gambling." LMAO

He’s wearing the Nike dragonflies. It is nikes new track spikes with zoomx foam and a carbon fiber plate

CORRECTION! He does 99 percent of the training in Kapchorwa Uganda. Runs from his house and does speed work in Sebei secondary school grass track

Nick Symmonds I'm glad that you have created a second channel, I was waiting for this for a while!

14:47 "there is no way that he can continue at this pace". Nick tryin to act surprised evn tho he knows the outcome lmao.

9:27 His pacing was so accurate because he had the lights on the floor.

Thank you, Nick, for putting out these videos and taking the mass amounts of time out of your day and effort to make these high-quality, thoughtful and informative videos. I wish I would have had some of these insightful commentaries when I was in high school and college running over 10 years ago, and I'm sure it is a privilege for runners to have today while they are running in high school and college (and maybe even younger as well). It really isa wealth of knowledge that you put out there in these videos and every one is a treat. Thank you, again!

That little smirk just before the final lap is so great

I think Cheptegei looks like El Guerrouj (running form wise). A lot of power to the ground through glutes and thighs. That's why it looks like he's "jogging" at 60 second laps. It is incredible.

Looks like Nike ZoomX Dragonfly - Also even though there were very little fans and the energy of Monaco wasn't there, it makes this record just that much more incredible/difficult to take on. Chep did this with no fans, alone after 6 laps, during the worst pandemic in a century and his travel time to Monaco from Uganda took 80hours which is exhausting for anyone... --> the only thing i would've wanted a little more of was to see this race run with more world-leading 5k runners. I feel that this record could've been even more incredible if there was more competition. However, I think the other world-leading 5k runners knew they weren't ready to stick with Chep because he announced a 5k record attempt prior to racing and I'm sure the competition was like we arnt ready.. I think the closts anyones gotten was Barega's 12:43 and Kejelcha's 12:47 in 2018.. Thanks for your thoughts Nick

Love how he’s like “can he do itttt” at the last lap when he’s legit saying the whole time “we know what happens he breaks the world record”

Track people know what they just witness! Any time a WR it’s amazing to be there in person and see it!

Not sure if you're still reading comments, but the discussion of pacemakers just made me think of Bram Som who honestly is one of the most recognizable athletes in track for how well he does pacing.

"Crushed it by almost two seconds"

14:24 Props to Wanders for cheering Cheptogei on. I would probably be too resentful to do so if I got lapped.

Your for sure the most dialed in RU-vidr in the U.S. for sport.

It is important to remember that he was wearing the new Nike Dragonfly shoes. Those shoes will revolutionize the track world like the Alphafly shoes have done for the marathon world.

It was the Wavelight technology. We went from a cinder track to polymer. Times changes. Those lights should be everywhere, like in Eugene.

Thanks Nick! This was awesome!

This is awesome Nick! Been missing the Race Recap videos you made and this was the perfect thing to fill the void

WE LOVE THIS TYPE OF VIDEO NICK,THUMBS UP

Awesome insight, you can't get insight like this anywhere else

I just subscribed to this channel. Why didn't you inform your subscribers of this channel ????? ;) I love all what you're doing here in RU-vid. It's so amazing to have an Elite like you giving so much inspiration. All my thanks from Paris :)

This is your best video imo - would love more of this

Just found this channel this is awesome to watch!

Yes for more race recaps!

I’ll break the record. I’m just built different

Loved this video Nick, thanks for doing this, fascinating insight!

The fact that he held that pace without the rabbits for half the race is crazy

To be fair to this performance even though the rabbit stepped off he still had the lights on the track that help him understand his pace. Still very incredible

The pacing was perfect, a sensational performance, thanks for watching this nick I wanted to see someone talk about it

Thank you so much Nick. Keep them coming.

Yep I wanna see some new videos like this. In Monaco, by the way, the womens 1000 meter worldrecord was nearly smashed and Kipyegon run the second fastest time ever! :D

Bruh this man runs a 5k almost as fast as I run a 3200

Love this type of video

excellent video. your insights as an elite athlete yourself are indeed fascinating. keep em' coming

Nick, this is great. Please keep doing these videos. Most of the other t&f analysis/reaction videos I've seen on youtube (cough TRP cough) are total crap. This is a breath of fresh air.

I watched the 2012 olympic finals and u where in last to 5th it was soooo good

That's our hero 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬💪💪💪

Cheptegei has the gold medalist kit bc he won the 10000m at the 2019 world championships

Literally twice as fast as me

9:56 Nick only ran a 15:49?? I'm sure he didn't run one all out at peak shape then. Sub 16 is my immediate goal but I've got to beat Nick too sometime lol

I learned so much! Thank you :)

Pro runner and now pro commentator haha love it

I have notes on every split but I havnt watched it before ?? How does he do it 😂

He’s wearing Nike Zoomx Dragonfly’s. Nikes new distance track spike. Cool technology in it too! Zoomx Foam and a full length spike plate

so the broadcaster had to throw to the women's high jump right in the middle of Cheptegei's world record race. And then at 6;45 Yaroslava appeared and it was obvious that we had plenty of minutes to share !

Nick symmonds’ new channel?! How did I not know about this!

Me: Hmm I don’t remember getting this notification Also me: There’s a tooooo!!?

I love these type of videos!

Someday, we will ALL be able to have a "ghost runner" pacing us. Just waiting for the virtual reality glasses (Google glass-type) with proximity sensors to guage your relative position. I promise you it's coming.

The Rabbit part cracks me up!😁😁😁

NICK ,STILL WAITING FOR THAT 800 HURDLES WR ATTEMPT,MY MONEYS ON TANNER

Great video keep doing that kind of content! 🤟

No better commentary than from a former Olympian than some rando who thinks they know the sport on RU-vid.

They now have a green light at the base of the track that indicates the world record. Look at it as it circles the track.

There's insane and there's this. This is insanely insane.

Yay

Really Nick ,now all am thinking about is drugs. Think you should have made a separate video about drugs and not taint my Boy's record

Uganda stand up! 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

Never heard anyone call the pace setters “rabbits” 😂

Love these videos

I can only dream to hit a speed like this

Love this kind of content nick!

Mcsweyn and henrik and cheptegi what a field

Pls make more race reaction videos

Y’know it’s funny. The person I found suspicious was Kiplimo. Honestly I heard of cheptegei before, but not Kiplimo. And how many 19 year olds run under 59 minutes in a half marathon the same year they run a 3 and 5k? Jeez, how many runners in general have done this in one year?

Make one video on WHAT type of shoes we have to use as per our event start from 100m to marathon and so on....... Love your video make vlogs also if possible love from India

Love the new channel. These Nike zoom x dragonfly's are marketed for 1500m to 10k. Just wondering why they are not considered the best for 800m?

They are wearing Nike ZoomX Dragonfly track spikes shoes

I enjoyed a lot watching Cheptegei! But i'm not naive, 12:35...

2 seconds ?! Insane.

Hi Nick, have you been aware that there were lights on the curb to mark the perfect pace? OK, I see you were. Like your exitement about this performance and athletics at all!

The reason he was a metronome was that lightbar thingy.

He doesn't even breathe hard at the end.

He wore Nike zooms dragonfly track spikes

two seconds is insane no doubt

I turned notifications on

He was wearing the nike zoomx dragonfly

I would love to see a video on Jakob Ingebrigsten.

With this new shoe technology, you have to wonder how this can be regulated. There should be a set standard of shoe that athletes have to wear-no new prototypes that special Nike athletes get secretly. (Kipchoge) Drug test questions are fair, it's not just Western countries using EPO anymore-too much money, prestige at stake.

Just a question Nick...what are your thoughts on the new light pacing technology ? Various super records have fallen since the inception of the technology...

The guy getting lapped probably still ran under 13:30

That color way was engineered by nikes finest engineers (they can’t even be around humans) and it gave him the edge 😅

Why wasn’t Julien Wanders wearing the black and white uniform?

Ultimate stamina

So apparently sub 4:02 pace is 4:03 pace now

I think Cheptegei in his prime will get a 12.30 in 5k guaranteed

gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Hi Nick , I’m 15 at the moment and have just started taking training more seriously in the last 4 months. I do around 50k a week. Last year my 800 time was 2.12. But hopefully it’s a lot better now I just haven’t been able to get to a track. How much training where you doing at my age? And is there anything else I could do to improve?. Also at the moment I do no stretching or injury prevention what should I be doing to keep injury free? Thanks and sorry for all the questions. :) Love the RU-vid videos by the way.

I’m an old hurdler so I don’t pretend to understand distance pacing and strategy, but can anyone explain to me the purpose of having multiple rabbits/ pacers? It seems strange that a rabbit would need another rabbit but, again, the mental part of these events are pretty foreign to me

So he would be 1400m ahead of you, Nick!

He wear nike zoom x dragonfly specially made for track running From 800m to 10000m

Nick, who i laying down in that picture behind you and why?