The secrets of Parker Valby's cross-training are revealed

This thread is about Parker Valby, the fastest NCAA runner in history. It isn't about Tuohy, the has been. Any speculation about her gets deleted while you are allowed to post hundreds of accusatory posts about Parker. I wonder if you are a mod.

The only ones making it about Tuohy seem to be the seemingly insecure Valby supporters who seem obsessed with Tuohy having, in their opinion, peaked.

Interesting. There are 100 posts by you comparing Parker's training and improvement to other runners. If other runners are irrelevant, then her training and improvement are what they are. There is no baseline. There is no perspective.

The best thing to do is to simply stop engaging the troll and report him.

Let's keep this thread focused on Parker Valby's training and her great accomplishments.

To respond to these posters - who are able to say whatever they wish - merely results in post deletions. The bias shown by the mods here is risible, and, despite their apparent intentions, protects nobody - least of all the thread subject. The questions don't go away.

That's exactly what I have focused on - her training and her great accomplishments. But some of you find it hard to explain how she can do this with the injuries she has had and the very limited training she does when no one else apparently can.

I have compared her training to that of elite and pro runners generally. Specific runners are irrelevant to that comparison. The issue is why is the exception better than the norm, who train much harder than she does.

I don't post accusatory posts. It is simply that you are uncomfortable with the questions her performances and training naturally raise. The thread isn't about any other named runner.

This thread isnt a discussion of training methods; it is a fan celebration.

Well then Parker's training is absolutely normal as is her development. You are not comparing her to anyone except herself.

Oh dear. You still don't get it. She is being compared with the majority of elite and pro distance runners and how they train.

Do you realize that comparing her to nobody is the complete opposite of comparing her to the majority of people? You get caught in a silly circle as always. And you can't list the training of any actual elites either. But oh yeah, she isnt being caompared to any. But she is being compared to a whole bunch of them.

That's a very confused post. She isn't being compared to a specific runner because that isn't relevant. That is comparing one individual with another - which isn't the point in a discussion about training methods of a distance runners generally. She is being compared with elites and pros as a group because her training is an exception to the norm. The "norm" is not an individual runner but a class of runner.

However what gives greater emphasis to my questions about her training is this: most younger athletes who excel - and that obviously that includes school and college athletes - reach the levels of achievement they have by training very hard. They risk they often run (so to speak) is over-training, resulting in burn-out and injury. This has happened to quite a few rising talents. Hence, we see that high achievement amongst young athletes is generally associated with an exceptionally demanding training regimen; it is almost never associated with those who train considerably less than their peers or who don't follow the methods that most adopt to succeed at an elite or pro level. (Jim Ryun was a telling example of a prodigy who trained very hard at high school and college. He was outstanding. But he also never got better.)

The majority of elites do a lot of cross training. This is the norm over the past few years. Her training is no different than that of the majority of elites.

Wrong. They don't run only two or three days a week and about 30mpw, as she has indicated.