Before Cain, she was the fastest HS miler and a very top 2mile runner with two Footlocker records. She's been top 3 at NCAA XCountry Champs for three years, has a couple of NCAA track titles, and is usually a very top performer.
She might not be winning every single race but she's always in the mis. If you can't see why people were always 'so hot on Hasay' then you're an idiot.
This is LetsRun, I can't believe you haven't read dumber posts, otherwise, i'm honored! My original reply was to someone who made a similar point to mine (unable to consistently close), so there's two dummies here I guess,
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http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5180736&page=1Anyways, all trolling aside, I don't think she's a bad runner, just the headlines about her always outshine her performances as shown in her 10k results. Btw she's quite small/light, and heat has *less* affect due to greater surface area->mass. You are correct, she had a very hot HS career, but she no longer dominates as she did in HS. Top 3 in XC is impressive, but she's not dominating like say Lynn Jennings did.
Pretend for a moment you never heard of her until the last two years or so, maybe she moved from another country or something. She would be good yes, but would she be so popular/highly-touted? In otherwords the other issue is her lack of progress. She's been running forever, highly competitive since at least age 9, set many HS records, but she's now 4 months shy of turning 22 and her 1500m PB is only 4:10 and 5000m PB is 15:37, and I think those are from 2011 or am I wrong? T. Dibaba ran 14:30 by age 19, which would almost have lapped Hasay. Faith Kipyegon ran 3:56.98 by age 18 this year already.
I would be hot on her if she was some sort of threat internationally, or at least consistently dominant on a national level, but neither of these is true. Who knows, maybe she'll eventually prove me wrong in the 10k, but to paraphrase T Noakes from the Lore of Running, the best 10k runners were the best 5k runners, who were once the best 3000m/1500m runners, and she just doesn't seem to have the wheels to keep up the last 400/800. It remains to be seen if this can be trained into her, but the data over the last 2 years does not support this. Maybe the marathon will work for her small light frame.