totorious wrote:
3hr-marathoner wrote:
that makes sense but it does make you wonder why she announced she is shooting for 2:19 fitness and a gold medal in 2020. It's inconsistent to say something like that then not be willing to say that she's trying to split 1:10/1:09 or whatever in Chicago.
She most certainly did not say that she's shooting for 2:19 at Chicago.
I dropped ten minutes there. 1:15/1:14 would be a great run for her in Chicago.
Oh Please wrote:
I think she knows what it will take to make Gold in the next Olympics.
I do not know Gwen in anyway, never met her, never engaged over social media, but lets see if we can "see" where she is coming from?
1) Started triathlons after college, presumably with no prior training or interest.
2) Had immediate success, in fact dominated for a period of 4 or 5 years.
3) Won a gold medal in the Olympics.
4) Ran 2:41 flat at NYC off of her triathlon training. None of us know how seriously she took the race or how good the training was beforehand.
If that was your trajectory, you might also believe that with specific and dedicated training for two years, that you might be able to take that 241 in NYC down to 220 in a Berlin type situation.
Most of the information above I got from Wikipedia. I truly had never heard of her before Rio Olympics, but with her change in direction and willingness to put it out there, I have become a big fan. Her husband does a nice job on her videos too. The brothers Johnson are right when they say more runners need to be like them.
Ummm...not many East Africans in tri. Restrict the Olympic marathon to 6 continents and...she still doesn't have a chance. I bear no ill will for her, but smart money is she'll be nowhere near even making the team.
https://m.wikihow.com/wikiHowTo?search=Break+the+world+recordThe Fap Scientist wrote:
Gwen is going to run a 2:32:47 in Chicago - Mark my words.
Build base
Have good body composition
Do xc
Have good tactics
Have good race condition preparation
Have professional attitude
Experience super compensation
Channel nervous energy
Internal load
I think she should stick to the 5000. Her 15:15 earlier in the year was great and showed a lot of promise at the distance.
What. Is. El. Guerrouj. Thinking?
She'll be third. She's made for the marathon.
Ando, Kenyan, Jorgensen
Farah, Kenyan, Kenyan
Pappas DNF
Rupp DNF
Pretty good predictions... with Farah, Kenyan, Kenyan, but something tells me Gwen will place about 6th in this field.
Can't wait Chicago 2018! wrote:
She'll be third. She's made for the marathon.
Ando, Kenyan, Jorgensen
Farah, Kenyan, Kenyan
Pappas DNF
Rupp DNF
What? She's in no way made for the marathon. She's tall, has janky form, and she's 32
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
Can't wait Chicago 2018! wrote:
She'll be third. She's made for the marathon.
Ando, Kenyan, Jorgensen
Farah, Kenyan, Kenyan
Pappas DNF
Rupp DNF
What? She's in no way made for the marathon. She's tall, has janky form, and she's 32
If she's not made for the marathon explain her marathon shuffle?
Sand Dunes wrote:
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
What? She's in no way made for the marathon. She's tall, has janky form, and she's 32
If she's not made for the marathon explain her marathon shuffle?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the marathon shuffle was bad?
The Fap Scientist wrote:
Gwen is going to run a 2:32:47 in Chicago - Mark my words.
I kind of agree, the best I see her going is 2:29's with that horrible running style of hers. She has horrible bio-mechanics to go 2:19-2:22, very inefficient. Good luck to her though.
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
Sand Dunes wrote:
If she's not made for the marathon explain her marathon shuffle?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the marathon shuffle was bad?
Marathon shuffle is good. It's more efficient. You want to push yourself forward. Not up and down.
Sand Dunes wrote:
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the marathon shuffle was bad?
Marathon shuffle is good. It's more efficient. You want to push yourself forward. Not up and down.
Oh, ok. Well to my eye, she doesn't have it. Her shoulders are in her ears, she has a lot of vertical oscillation, and she doesn't look smooth. Yesterday or the day before she posted a video to her Instagram story and her form looked awful
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
Oh, ok. Well to my eye, she doesn't have it. Her shoulders are in her ears, she has a lot of vertical oscillation, and she doesn't look smooth. Yesterday or the day before she posted a video to her Instagram story and her form looked awful
Just wait until Ando wins. We'll all be running with straight arms, rigid upper body. It's more efficient, less injury prone.
Wait for Larry Rawson to say she's gonna have a piano thrown on her back. Just b4 she wins.
KJK wrote:
2:19 shape? Really? Imagine some kid coming into running saying "man, I'm disappointed I'm not in 2:05 shape." I think we'd laugh him out of the building.
Sure. But that's not at all how she said it:
LRC: Is it weird for someone with as much success as you have had to go into a race not thinking about contending for the win?
Gwen Jorgensen: I am not happy that I am not in 2:19 shape but that is the reality of training less than a year solely in the sport of running.
She is fully aware that she can't expect to be in 2:19 shape, even though she would like to be. If you don't see any difference between her statement and yours, I really can't help you.
asdfasdf wrote:
She's a huge narcissist
+1
But these days its called "brand building."
The hype gets more clicks like a Kardashian waving her ass for the camera.
Dominating triathlons is not hard, its a rich white person sport. Buy a fancy bike and that's really all you need to do. Plus all the courses are just rough estimates of distance and usually short.
Her lifetime PB will be 2:26 at the best, but I agree with the guy before that 2:29 would be more likely. She'll make the trials, because 2:43 isn't close to elite, but be lucky to finish 5-10th. Huge emotional breakdown at the finish, anyone who publicizes it will be "sexist" and "a hater." The mainstream media will love her because it will support the idea that triathlon participants are real athletes and not just rich white people with fancy bikes running 5 mile "10ks."
If you don't think she was this competitive during her triathlon career, or set as huge goals during her triathlon career (she won some kind of medal in '16 after saying she was going to do so...it's slipping my mind), then you haven't been following Gwen.
I'm not saying she'll set records or win medals in the marathon...but I'm also not naive enough to bet against her.
kjhkljhlkj wrote:
Dominating triathlons is not hard, its a rich white person sport. Buy a fancy bike and that's really all you need to do. Plus all the courses are just rough estimates of distance and usually short.
Her lifetime PB will be 2:26 at the best, but I agree with the guy before that 2:29 would be more likely. She'll make the trials, because 2:43 isn't close to elite, but be lucky to finish 5-10th. Huge emotional breakdown at the finish, anyone who publicizes it will be "sexist" and "a hater." The mainstream media will love her because it will support the idea that triathlon participants are real athletes and not just rich white people with fancy bikes running 5 mile "10ks."
Hahahaha. Something tells me you've never competed in a triathlon.
I'd done quite a few and they have never a) been short or "rough distances" and b) never been determined by who has the fanciest bike.
JamesTheAmateur wrote:
Can't wait Chicago 2018! wrote:
She'll be third. She's made for the marathon.
Ando, Kenyan, Jorgensen
Farah, Kenyan, Kenyan
Pappas DNF
Rupp DNF
What? She's in no way made for the marathon. She's tall, has janky form, and she's 32
Like this tall, janky-formed, 33 year old?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJYc-_3aXk