Jenny B

Jenny always has a strong kick in the last 150m....this doesn't mean she had a lot left in the tank....

GREAT RUN Jenny!!!!!

You ran great and will look to see you out at Buff. Ranch real soon with the CU team.

1 304 Marta Domínguez ESP 9:07.32 (WL)

2 836 Yuliya Zarudneva RUS 9:08.39 (PB)

3 584 Milcah Chemos Cheywa KEN 9:08.57 (PB)

4 789 Gulnara Galkina RUS 9:11.09 (SB)

5 968 Jennifer Barringer USA 9:12.50 (AR)

6 918 Habiba Ghribi TUN 9:12.52 (NR)

7 602 Ruth Bisibori Nyangau KEN 9:13.16 (PB)

8 593 Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi KEN 9:14.62 (PB)

9 445 Antje Möldner GER 9:18.54 (NR)

10 320 Zemzem Ahmed ETH 9:22.64 (SB)

11 732 Jessica Augusto POR 9:25.25 (SB)

12 714 Katarzyna Kowalska POL 9:30.37

13 322 Sofia Assefa ETH 9:31.29

14 300 Eva Arias ESP 9:33.34

15 352 Sophie Duarte FRA 9:33.85

Intermediate Bib Athlete nat Mark

1000m 789 Gulnara Galkina RUS 3:01.26

2000m 593 Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi KEN 6:06.45

According to Coach Wetmore,

http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=204775891

Jenny ran a last 1000 meters at about 3:01, not too bad...

Sawah Pawin wrote:

Jenny always has a strong kick in the last 150m....this doesn't mean she had a lot left in the tank....

That's very true, but I still think she could have won a medal if she had not let the gap open so wide early on (easier said than done though!) - only because with her speed the early pace would be easy. Then again she was running so far ahead of her pr pace

Half of me thinks she's a miler and should stick to that, the other half - she has the best natural ability out of all those steeplechasers and if she brings the AR down another 5-10 seconds - she will blow that lot off the track with her closing pace in a big championship in the future

Great AR record - with more to come in the future

I think you need to really sit at your computer, and think about what you just wrote .... "she should have gone out faster, and she would have medaled."

Do you realize how hard it is, to be 5th in the World Championships? How much has to be right, on the day? She ran a PR, American Record, ran the race that she set out to run by not going out too fast.

When you have won before in a Championships race, then, as Seb Coe told me, "you go for Gold again, or nothing. What is the point of getting 8th if I did not try to win?" Look at Steve Cram in 1987 - he ran 24.9 for the 500 meters to go, to 300 meters to go, had the lead with 150m to go in the World Championships 1500m final, and finished well back, being beaten by many in the last 80 meters, including me.

The other side is if you would have walked up to Bob Kennedy when he ran his great Atlanta Olympic final in '96, taking the lead with 2 laps to go, and making it his race to lose. He did lose, but as he walked off the track and you could have asked him this question: "Bob, you are 26 years old, great race! You will not make another Olympic team." An extremelty harsh statement, but that is what happened. He was in a car accident for one Olympic Trials, and an tendon injury in the other in 2004.

I look back at 1984 5th, 1993 World's 5th - and I can say, I ran the best race that I could have run. Pr in the Games '84, and 33 years old in '93. I hang my head after '92 games, as I let it go slow (2:07 at 800m), and should be critized by those that wrote, and WAS blasted by my coach, Mike Durkin after the race by telephone. But I can sit and write today, that I learned from '92, and when the pace slowed in '93, took the lead to keep the pace honest.

Give her her due. She ran a PR, AR, and ran great. I bet she is hanging her head right now, wondering if she had gone 200m earlier, considering her great 3:01 finish, could she have medaled? Been there, and done that. I appreciate the races where I laid it on the line more as I became old. I salute her and her coach.

js

I watched it on Universal Sports and I thought the announcers were great. Seriously, go re-watch the race and see the sort of commentary taken for granted by people not in the US. I'm never watching track on NBC again if I can watch it live with no commercials on Universal with better commentators.

As for Barringer, I think the pace was too hot (3:01 at 1k, 6:06 at 2k) for her to want to mix it up in the lead pack. Her PR coming in was only 9:22. I think when she discovered how much she had left in the last 1k, she'd left it a bit late with too much ground to make up. But she ran a 10-second PR, not far out of the medals, which probably gives her a lot of confidence going forward. She's young and hopefully has many better years in front of her.

JimSpivey wrote:

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js

Good to hear from someone who has been there and done that. I hope Jenny builds off of this, and is willing to go out a little closer to the leaders next time. Still wonderful race by her. Executed her plan, but it wasn't quite enough.

exactly njc...the first 1k was in 9:03 pace...if she was near the front she VERY easily could have bonked considering it was a pace about 20 sec > PR. She knew her limits and ran very intelligently.

She's 20 or 21 y.o, has run 9:12, and is 5th in the world. Pretty damn impressive!

she be 23 next week

Thanks for being a sane voice in a sea of caterwauling children still hoping to one day get a taste of the teat.

I was watching it without sound on my computer (at work) and wondered why she wasn't close early? Then I saw the 3:00 first kilo and knew she was running smart. Like she said afterwards ~ she's about yr or two from that kind of pacing. What great range!!