Shalene Flannagan's future in the marathon

Of course the idiot that I am, I did not even spell her name correctly, only one "N". Damn, why do I keep doing that.

She has a great future in the Marathon

Actually, a 15.05 5k time gives her the potential to run ~2.21 for the marathon. Assuming that's where her natural ability lies, and that she trains properly for the longer distance.

I wouldn't know the 5k PR of Samuelson, but I would be surprised if it was anything near as quick as 15.05. And she did okay moving up. So I don't see where you got your 2.27-2.28 potential for Flanagan.

The truth is, she has not even begun to train.

She runs alone, and basically trains for the 1500.

Wait and see where she goes.

She has untapped talent that has not even begun to rear its head.

Yeah....I wouldn't be in such a hurry to turn a 1500/5000 runner, who's still improving, into a marathoner.

I know Shalene, and she's not going to become a marathon runner anytime soon, so don't hold breath. She doesn't even run the 10000.

runnerGU wrote:

I know Shalene, and she's not going to become a marathon runner anytime soon, so don't hold breath. She doesn't even run the 10000.

I hope she concentrates on the 1500/5k a litle longer. I'm not so sure she would make a good marathoner just yet... Shalane was well known for pushing her limits so hard to a point where she has had to stop of even fall over in the past. I think at regionals...or some big race in hs she was up by like 90 seconds and colasped...unbelievably display but very costly. She seems to have gotten the hang of things in the 1500/5k/xc lately, but The marathon would probably take too much patience lol. Hopefully she'll drop a 145X this year and take a few tics off that 1500 time making her a little more competitive.

Only one "E" as well, moron.

Shalane Flanagan

Alex Filides wrote:

Her 15:05/5,000m would put her at around 2:27-2:28.

Whatever point chart you're using isn't accurate when it comes to women marathoners. None are. The all-time women's marathon list is filled with athletes who could theoretically have put up track times (15-5-10) far faster than not only their own bests, but most or all existing marks. Loroupe is one of the few who's run in the 14:40/2:20 range. DK is actually exceptional for having run under both 15:00 and 2:25, although I don't know statistically how exceptional. The track-marathon combo seems much more common to men than to women, and I couldn't tell you whether this is physiological or artifactual.

P.S. You're not necessarily an idiot for misspelling Flinagun's name, but it shows questionable judgment to note that she's "pretty darn hot" while posting under what I assume is your real name.

Especially since she isn't.

That she is

w/e I was posting at 4am and tired, plus she already has over 14,000 results to her name, at least if we ended up spelling it wrong, you'd be able to find it on google.. ;-)

This is all a quite a sad story unfortunately, I was probably the second best runner ever to reside in Marblehead, until Shalane came along and took that away. Oh well. W.F Newhall being the first.

Getting back to the topic at hand, I don't think Shalane will move up to the marathon anytime soon either, I think she needs to "squeeze" out her talent at the shorter distances, such as the 5,000.

Anyways, off of her 15:05/5,000 this is what the calculators say:

Runningtimes: 2:27:28

McMillan: 2:27:03

Runners World: 2:24:39(we're definitely not using this one)

Considering her mother held the AR for the marathon for a time, I'd say genetically the potential is pretty good.

What was the AR back then? And what is the athletic background of her father, no less of a genetic contributor than her mother?

Old man could run, too. 1:50 ish 800 in college, strong xc on occasion, and after college I believe that he did some pretty good running for a while too.

She has dominated the 5k-3k time to move up

Steve Flanagan went 29:xx in road races on legitimate courses. I was in one that had Lindsay, Shorter, Gordon Minty, and Flanagan back in the 70's. I don't know about PR's but I believe Steve may have made some WCCC U.S. teams back in the day.

Good genes are not automatic