And 39 women in the NCAA broke 16 minutes last year. If it is not a huge deal to cut more than 1 minute after graduation, we will have 39 women running 14:xx in a few years.
And 39 women in the NCAA broke 16 minutes last year. If it is not a huge deal to cut more than 1 minute after graduation, we will have 39 women running 14:xx in a few years.
Wouldn't this be like a ~1:03/2:12 half/full guy with previous ~14:00 5k PR running a partially paced (the rest solo) ~13:10 5k in racers at age 35?
jamin wrote:
Wouldn't this be like a ~1:03/2:12 half/full guy with previous ~14:00 5k PR running a partially paced (the rest solo) ~13:10 5k in racers at age 35?
She was fully paced.
Yes if fully paced. And it won't happen.
Amazing story. Will her event be the 5000m or the 10,000m?
The challenge with both, to be a serious contender, is to develop a finishing kick near 65-66 seconds or quicker at the end of a fast second half race in either event.
Not sure she has that yet, but lots of time to develop.
I think it will be 10k. A 36 year old will not develop a kick. Her hope will have to be for a fast race.
Jamin - this 35 year old woman with two kids and a career is almost as fast as you over 5K. Depending on your current fitness, she might even be able to beat you in a match race. Plus, she is doing this off of half marathon/marathon training.
Do you now see the power and potential of putting in bigger miles and building your aerobic house as Malmo has suggested for years?
Jlow wrote:
Amazing story. Will her event be the 5000m or the 10,000m?
The challenge with both, to be a serious contender, is to develop a finishing kick near 65-66 seconds or quicker at the end of a fast second half race in either event.
Not sure she has that yet, but lots of time to develop.
She closed in 66 for this time trial. In the heat of competition there is probably more there.
Thanks for responding.
She was blessed with running talent, a work ethic, and STEM skills to get a good job wherever she goes in life. Math is hard for me--I wish I had the brainpower and running talent she had. But will try to simply get faster.
jecht wrote:
She left a stable career in IT as a PM/Developer making $$$ to be a real estate agent? And she could afford to buy a house young? Most Millennials are trying to get by.
That's a big leap of faith.
Huh? Real estate is not a risky career choice. It's like the most common fall-back career for people who don't like what they're doing and want to have some flexibility. Anyone can make decent money at it if you're competent and personable. Also, she's not the only breadwinner, and buying a house in your late 20s is not some big accomplishment.
YMMV wrote:
Well, if you are looking for ignorant, your cherry-picking of my post from two days ago when her 6th place in XC wasn't revealed until a day later is a pretty good example. I was posting based on the facts of her track career. I don't have time to chase down every performance of a relatively little-known athlete across disciplines.
Maybe it's me, but if I have time to express opinions, I have time to spend 20 seconds googling the facts on which my opinions are based. It's not like this was a big secret, in any event. She was a well-known runner in the mid 00s. Now, I'm sure there are great XC runners from the early 90s that I don't know either, but I wouldn't opine about them unless I had done a little reading first.
While her 5k was great, many people missed that two weeks later she ran a mile TT on the track in 4:33, one second slower than Emma Coburn's winning time at that last team meet. I think she had a pacer for the first three laps.
DC Wonk wrote:
While her 5k was great, many people missed that two weeks later she ran a mile TT on the track in 4:33, one second slower than Emma Coburn's winning time at that last team meet. I think she had a pacer for the first three laps.
4:33 =15:35. Meh.
Also, Coburn's TT was in the wind at altitude, not comparable.