Amy Cragg - 2:21:42 marathoner - pulls out of Trials with illness

Off topic... but does anyone know why Sarah Sellers, third place finisher at Boston 2 years back and 2:31 marathon at Chicago in Oct. 2019 isn't competing at the Trials. Assume injury?

Tman46 wrote:

Off topic... but does anyone know why Sarah Sellers, third place finisher at Boston 2 years back and 2:31 marathon at Chicago in Oct. 2019 isn't competing at the Trials. Assume injury?

How do you know she's out? She's still listed as "declared" on the USATF website.

Best post ALL DECADE

AT THESWOOSH wrote:

Is this what happens when you mess with your thyroid? Same story with Goucher (shadow of herself) and Flanagan (retired)?

What a moron you are ! Flanagan has both of her knees rebuilt, her only choice was retirement. You could run professionally after this ?

Oh man, I must have missed it. I actually scrolled entrants yesterday and didn't see her name. Thnx

Could also be the result of years and years of disordered eating.

Raysharp001 wrote:

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[quote]wellImeannotthatsuspicious wrote:

Results from long term drug use... She done , she gone bye bye.

So many effing a55holes on this MB. I was a world class athlete, unlike most of you anonymous trolls, and I have known the debilitating cruelty of chronic fatigue. You try and try and try to regain your health, holding out hope of recapturing your prior fitness. I'm sure it's a tough disappointment for her, and she deserves respect for what she's accomplished in a great career, and for hoping to recover against all odds to make another team.

Baseless drug allegations are easy to make when you're posting anonymously. Big tough guys.

I was never elite--my biggest accomplishment was qualifying for NCAAs as an individual in XC and my track times the seasons before and after that XC season don't really align with where I placed at XC regionals and NCAAS. I was diagnosed with a variation of chronic fatigue in between indoor and outdoor my last year of eligibility--it's been close to ten years and I still don't feel entirely normal. I went to college in a third-tier city and I haven't been able to find the same quality of sports medicine in the major city I live in now and most doctors I've seen post-college just write off my symptoms as aging. I have to eat super clean, drink a lot of coffee, and be on a very regimented exercise schedule to not feel like crap all the time and since I can't seem to get back into decent shape I have pretty low motivation to exercise until something stops zipping.

In the back half of college, I was actually super fit for the first time in my life. I was confused/shocked that workouts and races were actually fun. For so long the only thing I really enjoyed about intervals, tempos, etc, and races was the feeling of accomplishment/relief once it was over. Like maybe the psychotic level of drive I had back then is clouding my memories but I remember being so enamored with exercising that I'd be like hmm I have an hour to kill I could read a book but I'm just going to go do more planks and actually being super into doing planks. And having to talk myself out of going for another run.