World Record Progression: The 5000m 

The mm and cm pop up you have at 1:15 are not the imperial system, those are all metric units. Imperial is feet, yards and miles which I'm sure you're familiar with.

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This channel is the best of the running channels. Consistenly impresses. Some of the ones that have like 600k subs feel like they make low effort clickbait videos

Watching Haile take down the mark by 11 seconds made me cry all those years ago, and every time I watch it, I well up. Courage.

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Please note that Joshua politely requested all commentators to pronounce his last name as 'Cheptegay' not 'Chepteguy'.

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Watching your progression videos is making my sick day just a little bit better.

I swear you and @SummoningSalt are two sides of the same coin. Absolutely amazing documentation, narration and information. The hours you put in to research, editing and creating these historic videos is truly the best thing ever. Thank you for all you do in running history and news!

Amazing work, thank you

Fantastic video!

Great Video Documentary! Thx

Great videos as always. Super fascinating.

Great video. Really enjoyed it.

What a coverage video! Awesome content as always!

Great video! Love watching these world record progression videos! I put this in your comments before but I wanted to say this again in case you never saw it. I think an amazing video idea would be the circus dumbbell world record progression! That would be a sick video for us strength fans of the channel that found you from the log and deadlift videos. Keep up the great work!

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These videos of world record progression are amazing. Really puts the results into context! Would love to see more like these

These progression video are the best

You should do a woman 5k progression next

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Do a record progression of the 5K road race! Nice video btw!

Great vid - thank you👍👏 I hate the pacing lights with a passion!

Get out there y’all and break some records in the new year!

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36:18 He ran the last 100m in 10.3 seconds, he was .71 seconds off of Usian Bolt's world record of 9.58 100m sprint. That just goes to show that if you can run fast in long distance, you can SURE as HELL run fast in short distances, but it doesn't work the other way around. That is amazing he was able to do that after already running 4,900m at close to 4 minutes per mile pace!

Would love to get that 20+ minute video on technology improvements in track

Interesting that the tremendous time drops in the 90s have stopped. Only slight improvement in 25 years. Have you read The Slummer? They get under 12:20, albeit in 2085!

I would have thought that the 100m is probably a lot more recognisable than the 5000m

Why did video need to be blurred? Cool video.

Great video even tho i already know the subject well

I find it so crazy that dudes were running low 14s in the 1920s running twice a week on diets of beer and bread. Like…imagine putting those dudes through 6 months of lactate threshold training and giving them a pair of vaporflys on a mondo track. They would have been running 13:40s lmao

Bruh, how can I train 1600k a year and still get clapped by two dudes born in the 18th century? That's wild.

Are carbon shoes good for a at least a second a lap for an elite distance runner. Asking for a friend.

I ran cross country and Track with the two at 38:20 !!

Have you herad of KĘSTUTIS ORENTAS (LTU)? I believe it should be mentioned that during the time when kuts' record was 13:35, soviet referees seem to have robbed another runner of the new record. Kęstutis Orentas of Lietuva (Lithuania), who officially held the indoor 5000m world record, was once initially clocked at 13:33.2 (was only supposed to be pace-setter for bolotnikov, but he bonked and Orentas won) and only AFTER the race the judges deliberated for a few minutes and decided to wind the clock back and proclaimed that he „only equalled“ the world record at 13:35. One of many soviet machinations. Also, at the 1964 olympics Orentas was mysteriously given the wrong schedule, showed up to the race at the last moment and ran basically unready.

I personally think that Bekele's records are different than what Cheptegei run. We need to consider that there was Coronavirus that year. He could have used doping to increase performances using the fact that travel was almost banned. Then use also the shoe technology and time is more feasible. These last years he did not even come close to his record races.

I thought the light on the track was ledlights

.not that much progression since the super-duper-fly shoes arrived. 😂

35:28 But it wasn’t the “last WR anyone would ever see in the 5000” at the making of this video.

I ran 5000m while watching this video :D. Also how the hell are we at Haile gebrselaise and only halfway through the Video?! This is gonna be good

gebrselassie the goat

i ran my first ever 5k for new years in 28:25 and im 13 is that good?

I was looking forward to watching this but twenty seconds of that voice and I was out!

Has no one thaught of doing an any% run and skip some laps ?

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I will be the first sub 12:30

So I have to wonder why the WR is 12:35, but the olympic record is only 12:57 Suspicious and really, since the 11 second drop, I lost confidence in the world track scene being clean. It isn't just pacing and shoes. They are using stuff. I stopped paying attention anymore.

That 20 year gap is why tactical racing is trash.

You should make a world record progression of women's triple jump,it would be a very interesting one