kgpremed11 wrote:
Kara, has just simply lost heart. There was maybe once a time where she put running above all, even herself. Now she has a baby to think about, shes aging, she STILL has the physical capabilities, but mentally she is not in the right place. Shalane is a freak of nature. She's no spring chicken herself (32 I think) and still killing everyone in the field, and Kara just looks at her in awe at this point I agree that it's not good for kara to train with her, every time she see's shalane perform better her confidence probably takes a hit. At this point, kara can try to recapture that youthful hunger, or she can just slowly fade into irrelevance. The circle of life.
She just messed up both her strategy and her prep.
She has to be pretty discouraged.
I saw them race at Stanford, and if she had just used the same strategy (let Shalane go) and did some heat training/prep. She'd be on the team and have the bonus $ etc.
Running is a tough sport, and running in the heat makes it tougher.
As soon as Hasay finished her last class, she skipped graduation, got on a plane and Alberto had her start prepping for Des Moines and the heat. He had her training in the sauna, and he sent her to Des Moines early to get acclimated to the heat/environs.
The point is, using all these preparation techniques ("gimmicks,") is they might not always work, but they might cut down on errors like Kara made.
Running is hard enough as it is, why not use every legal technique for prep (exer-cycle in sauna, ice vest, arrive early and acclimate.)