Did anyone see that Konstanze Klosterhalfen was doing some type of repeat workout on the track after the Pre Classic ended?

Body type???

Koko or Allie wrote:

Body type???

Koko for running, Allie for real life.

Koko is the tall lanky type like Radcliffe or McColgan (although the latter is even taller and so was her mom, I think). Additionally she has very long legs and a tiny upper body. As for the low bf, she certainly didn't need NOP meds to get like this because she has looked liked it since the became one of the best German youths in 2013/14 (then still focussing on 800/1500). If anything, she has become somewhat more muscular (although one could well say that her only muscled limbs are the thighs).

Height in public profiles is rarely ever correct. E.g. Koko is supposed to be the same height as Efraimson and taller than Weightman. In the Berlin mile race in 2018 Efraimson looks an inch taller to me and in sunday's race Weightman certainly does not look any shorter than Koko, rather somewhat taller as well.

I wonder if they will be doing the 1500m or the 5000m at worlds. Apparently the next major race will be 1500m in London. 3000m might be her best distance but I think she is better suited to the 5k than 1500m. She won't beat hard kickers like Muir and Houlihan on such a short distance.

Konstanze is by far my favorite 3000/5000 female runner. Great to watch and run. Love the aggressive running.

Also, she has exactly the body type I love. She seems very sexy to me.

Jo72 wrote:

Height in public profiles is rarely ever correct. E.g. Koko is supposed to be the same height as Efraimson and taller than Weightman. In the Berlin mile race in 2018 Efraimson looks an inch taller to me and in sunday's race Weightman certainly does not look any shorter than Koko, rather somewhat taller as well.

... and different sources sometimes give different data. E.g., according to european-athletics.org KoKo is 169cm/52kg

oompah wrote:

will somebody please give her something to eat. Has anyone ever addressed her thinness

Yes. Someone needs to intervene.

You're right wrote:

oompah wrote:

will somebody please give her something to eat. Has anyone ever addressed her thinness

Yes. Someone needs to intervene.

High jumper thin. Too thin for running.

boots on the ground stanford wrote:

Interestingly the other NOP runners like Hassan, etc. did not seem to be doing so. But she seemed to be doing a medium length workout post race.

Ingebrigtsen' do it all the time. Here google translate from after Lausanne:

"- Now we're driving hard! beats Gjert firmly and sends his sons out on the same path they just competed on.

- They have had a little fun, so now it's back to work again. This is hard work. Today, it seems that the biscuits have been driven the most. They are a bit tall and are full of endorphins, and this is a great way to calm down so they get a little easier to sleep, he elaborates to NRK."

KSTJ wrote:

... and different sources sometimes give different data. E.g., according to european-athletics.org KoKo is 169cm/52kg

This is almost certainly wrong and might even have been placed to stop the anorexia debates. Don't get me wrong, I think these debates are misplaced but she is certainly above 170 and below 50.

For me the point is that she apparently managed to stay generally healthy and improve for 5-6 years while being so thin. In fact she is one of the few top young female runners who to my knowledge never had a stress fracture. This would be miraculous within 6 years of low body weight/fat and professional running. That's why I think she is naturally built like that and might be closer to her "natural" weight than many other femaler runners.

The only difference in the last ca. 2 years is I think a little more muscle with still extremely low body fat. If she is taking meds to stay so thin, she must have been doing this since 2014 or earlier, certainly years before NOP was even an option.

Yes, she is 174 and 48 as I said. European athletics is outdated, they still list her teen height/weight.

Yes, she never had a stress fracture, though she had severe knee pain during the first half of last year. But I'll tell you something - stress fractures are tiny breaks in bones. The lower the weight, the lower the impact. So Klosterhalfen's low weight actually protects her against injury, because the impact on her feet and legs is very low with each step she is taking. A heavier runner runs much higher risk at getting stress fractures. For example Allie Kiefer is dealing with injuries quite frequently, despite having a very strong physique with big muscles.

The weight and higher body fat helps of course - especially when it comes to healing injuries. A heavy runner will heal injuries much more quickly than a light one. Klosterhalfen's knee injury was a very long process, had she been heavier it would have healed much quicker, but she even had to take full 4 weeks off due to it (runner's knee on both knees).

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Jo72 wrote:

KSTJ wrote:

... and different sources sometimes give different data. E.g., according to european-athletics.org KoKo is 169cm/52kg

This is almost certainly wrong and might even have been placed to stop the anorexia debates. Don't get me wrong, I think these debates are misplaced but she is certainly above 170 and below 50.

I agree that this is wrong. I just felt confirmed that none of the data that are around is based on science. I also remember that about 12 years ago Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba had the same official height, which is obviously not true.

Plus, when should we measure what? Both height and weight vary over the day, and the variations are small but not neglible.

No, I was replacing a piston on my Kawasaki.