Josh Kerr barely sat still with his mile world record before his mind moved to the 1500m.

After running 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League on Saturday and taking down Hicham El Guerrouj’s 27-year-old mile mark, Kerr wrote in a first-person Telegraph column that he celebrated with one beer, slept very little, and then got up for a 5am run. By then, another record was already in his head.

…he celebrated with one beer, slept very little, and then got up for a 5am run.

“I was soon thinking about a certain 1500-metre world record that has stood since 1998, one year longer than the mile,” Kerr wrote. El Guerrouj’s 3:26.00 remains the mark to catch, and Kerr isn’t exactly coming from nowhere. Kerr split 3:27.70 through 1500 meters en route to his mile world record on Saturday, which is the seventh-fastest time in history, according to World Athletics.

His wife, Larimar, was apparently not ready to move on quite as quickly. Kerr wrote that when he told her, “It’s on,” she replied, “Can you just give us 12 hours before you set another goal?”

Kerr didn’t need 12 hours. “I could, but the iron’s hot,” he wrote.

The 1500-metre world record would be a brutal follow-up act. World Athletics scoring tables list El Guerrouj’s 3:26.00 at 1302 points. Kerr’s new mile world record is listed at 1298 points, while El Guerrouj’s old mile record was worth 1292. By that measure, the 1500-metre mark is still the slightly bigger target.

Kerr isn’t pretending the attempt is already locked in. In the Telegraph, he wrote that no decision has been made and that “things would have to be put in place with the right 1500m race.” Still, he added, “I do think that it is in the legs.”

His coach, Danny Mackey, doesn’t appear to be shutting down the ambition. Kerr wrote that Mackey sees another record chase as realistic, though the coach also permitted him to choose something far less painful, understanding if Kerr wanted to take a proper vacation instead.

That doesn’t sound like Kerr’s preferred ending, though, as he wrote 3:25 for 1500 meters “could be on the cards this season, most likely in one of the remaining Diamond League races.” Kerr’s own words make it clear where his head is. One El Guerrouj record is finally gone, and he’s already talking about the next one.

This article was first published on the Runner’s World USA website.

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