Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the 5000m world champion and 1500m world championship silver medalist, is still recovering from a nagging Achilles injury and is not planning on running the 2024 World Indoor Championships.

Here’s what you need to know:

– Ingebrigtsen missed the European Cross Country Championships last month due to a sacrum injury. He has not been announced for any indoor races and now tells Norwegian media outlet VG: “I know my body, and it sometimes happens that it needs a little extra time to heal before I start with hard loads. I've been struggling a bit with an Achilles, and have therefore been training a bit alternatively. Now I'm on my way back, but I don't want to take any risks. Therefore, I run my own scheme a little more. I know that works. For me, it's EC and Olympic medals that matter…I love competing, but sometimes you have to make some tactical and boring priorities” (via Google Translate)

– Jakob is expected to stay home in Norway while his brothers, Henrik and Filip, head to Spain for training camp.

– Last year, Ingebrigtsen raced 19 times and set personal bests in the 1500m (3:27.14); mile (3:43.73), 3000m (7:23.63) and two miles (7:54.10 world record). He finished last year with Diamond League victories in the 1500m and 3000m – just weeks after his silver medal in the 1500m and gold medal in the 5000m at the World Championships in Budapest.

Where are his biggest competitors competing?

– 1500m world champion Josh Kerr is slated to race the two-mile at the Millrose Games on Feb. 11 against U.S. 5000m and 10,000m record holder Grant Fisher.

– U.S. mile record holder Yared Nuguse will attempt to defend his Wanamaker Mile title at the Millrose Games.

– Narve Gilje Nordås has not been announced for any indoor meets yet.

– 5000m world championship silver medalist Mohamed Katir ran 27:30 at the San Silvetre 10K in Madrid on Dec. 31.