Rebecca Johnstone HUGE PR for best collegiate 800 of the season!

THEY ARE DOPING! All those women are getting huge improvments and its the NAIA its too easy to dope in the NAIA. You dont go from 2:16 to 2:01 without help...something fishy in the NAIA!

Perhaps the "help" they sought and found was "training."

Just because someone improves that much does not mean that they are on drugs. It's sad that people think that way now but that is just not the case. Those girls have unbelievable amounts of talent and they are dedicated runners. That combination alone will make you world clase. Those girls are not on drugs. They have developed with hard work and talent, dont start taking that away!!

The only NAIA records out there are the national MEET records. The NAIA has not maintained any other records.

She can only break the record in Fresno.

Obviously she is more than capable of doing it, but with running in multiple events, hot smoggy weather, and limited competition, it may be easier said than done.

Marcu9876 wrote:

They have both cretainly gotten bigger and stronger over their four years but I expect something fishy.

They really have gotten significantly bigger. Especially Johnstone. The muscles in their legs don't seem natural.

to say that julia howard ran 217 as a freshmen is quite misleading. she may have run a 217 as her third race of a meet where she wasn't in shape, but she was always fast, i know she won junior nationals in 210ish or 212 before she ever got to SFU so her improvement is great but not out of the ordinary. As for Rebecca, when she was younger she was always very talented but had injuries etc, and finally things have seemed to click for her and is running great. She also 'appears' to have improved probably more than she actually has, I'm quite sure her best times when she was younger weren't near what she was capable of, she was coached by Marek for heaven's sake!

Yeah, she flies by me when I'm out for my runs on campus (I'm a former 4:10 miler) and her legs are just gigantic and strong, and she does her whole training runs on her toes.

the previous poster should know ... he has been seen running around the campus more than anyone of the team ... but none of our longer distance people live on campus

Sammy ran professionally after he graduated and was sponsored by Fila. He ran something like 28:31 for 10k road races...consistantly...his last race was a few years ago, where he ran around 30:30ish or so on an very difficult 10k course in Texas. Hes currently part of the Mountain High Running Club that holds a camp for kids in the summer.

Yea man, you were way off.

I guess Im on drugs, i went from a 5:20 miler my soph year in high school to a 4:29 my senior year in high school...

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Bookwerm wrote:

I guess Im on drugs, i went from a 5:20 miler my soph year in high school to a 4:29 my senior year in high school...

dude you\'re an idiot.

first of all you were in HIGH SCHOOL, not college, and people hit growth spurts in high school, especially males.

Also, 4:29 is not even close to being as elite as a 2:01.

For you to go from a 5:20 mile to a 4:29 mile in 2 YEARS in HIGH SCHOOL would not raise any suspision.

Hopefully you\'re not on drugs, because you\'re still slow as hell anyway.

in clear English please. not canadian english

sfu'ed wrote:

the previous poster should know ... he has been seen running around the campus more than anyone of the team ... but none of our longer distance people live on campus

in clear English please, not canadian english. what are you trying to say? Are you saying the distance runners dont run on campus? I do see them quite frequently, and I only run on campus 2-3 days per week. Do you deny the fact that she is a monster? Not manly like Emilie Mondor, but she is pretty big in the lower half. Although, I dont think she is on steroids personally. If she does the olympic lifts and stuff with Derek that might explain it. Either way she is really good and I'm not trying to say anything bad about her. Just that she used to come up behind and pass me every once and a while on campus and it made me feel quite slow. Though I guess I am quite slow right now...

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Bookwerm wrote:

I guess Im on drugs, i went from a 5:20 miler my soph year in high school to a 4:29 my senior year in high school...

dude you're an idiot.

first of all you were in HIGH SCHOOL, not college, and people hit growth spurts in high school, especially males.

Also, 4:29 is not even close to being as elite as a 2:01.

For you to go from a 5:20 mile to a 4:29 mile in 2 YEARS in HIGH SCHOOL would not raise any suspision.

Hopefully you're not on drugs, because you're still slow as hell anyway.

Wow..YOUR AN IDIOT...he was making a SARCASTIC POINT. You gotta be the biggest tool if you took him serious, and also the fact that you completely missed his point...$hit you got to be the most clueless person on letsrun...and damn if a 4:29 is slow as hell, then crap i wish i was slow as hell considering in only ran a 4:45 in high school.

i hate stupid people wrote:

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Bookwerm wrote:

I guess Im on drugs, i went from a 5:20 miler my soph year in high school to a 4:29 my senior year in high school...

dude you're an idiot.

first of all you were in HIGH SCHOOL, not college, and people hit growth spurts in high school, especially males.

Also, 4:29 is not even close to being as elite as a 2:01.

For you to go from a 5:20 mile to a 4:29 mile in 2 YEARS in HIGH SCHOOL would not raise any suspision.

Hopefully you're not on drugs, because you're still slow as hell anyway.

haha yea man seriously, the dude was being sarcastic that him making big improvement in high school is because he was on drugs, not because he just happened to get good training in at that time or having a good coach, of course mocking the fact that everytime somebody improves a lot, there on drugs. Your a moron dude, and you need to hate yourself for being so stupid. Plus like most letsrun posters you probably couldnt run anywhere near as fast as the person you critisize, cause last time i checked a 4:29 mile in high school is pretty damn solid.

Some of the Simon Fraser women are using performance enhancing drugs. Period. If it looks like a skunk, and it smells like a skunk, it's probably a skunk.....a big stinky Canadian skunk. Or skunks.

well said but i think you mean "then you hate yourself stupid."

I doubt very much that any of the athletes are using steroids especially Rebecca Johnstone- she's just an extremely talented runner and well coached.

Sorry, I think I have some sort of typing dyslexia (sp?). The words that end up on the page are not always the ones running through my head. When I typed "of", I meant to type "on", but I guess my fingers sometimes have a mind of their own. Also, please forgive an {their, there, they're} or {where, were, we're) mix-ups ... I do know the difference, but unless I really concentrate when I am typing, I do interchange them.

Thanks,

Sorry for the "canadian English"

here she comes again:

Azusa Pacific University

1st Annual Bryan Clay Invitational - 4/17/2009

Azusa Pacific University - Azusa, CA

Event 14 Women 800 Meter Run

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Name Year Team Finals

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Finals

1 Johnstone, Rebecca Valley Royals 2:04.50

2 Smith, Jessica Simon Fraser 2:06.37

2 Lopez, Lisa UC Riverside 2:06.37

4 Crofts, Helen Simon Fraser 2:10.76

5 Montgomery, April Cal St. Stanislaus 2:12.30

6 Gillespie, Kristen Oklahoma State 2:12.47

7 Howell, Sarah Unattached 2:13.24

8 Coates, Kaylee Southern Utah 2:13.78

9 edwards, kylie Unattached 2:14.02

10 Espinoza, Angelica Unattached 2:14.15

here's the link:

http://staging.umcm.apu.edu/athletics/data/live_trackandfield/index.htm