Hard to say what color.
Picture all of her hometown fans gathered at Notre Dame High (her alma mater) cheering her on to a medal. Seemed like a long shot a few years ago but not now.
She is also the nicest girl out there and has been trained exquisitely.
Very exciting.
I actually think this could happen
She has been consistent and improving. The timing might work for her if she can continue that trend for the next year. And stays uninjured.
There are always going to be three 14:25 Ethiopians around these days that can break 60 at the end now. In an Olympic 10 she will have to be able to do that to medal even in a low 30 minute race.
3 Ethiopians
3 Kenyans
Do they give a medal for 7th place?
All 300 elmira residents who know her, most of which are redneck farmers.......yea, big turnout.I can see it now - "Yeah some gurl from round heer won a medal in the olympics, dayum! In the marathon err sumthtin i hurd."
Elmira Fan wrote:
Hard to say what color.
Picture all of her hometown fans gathered at Notre Dame High (her alma mater) cheering her on to a medal. Seemed like a long shot a few years ago but not now.
She is also the nicest girl out there and has been trained exquisitely.
Very exciting.
Have you always been that negative, or did something happen along the way for that to be your default reply? Your post is definitely NOT normal. I'm bring genuinely sincere.
notseeingit wrote:
3 Ethiopians
3 Kenyans
Do they give a medal for 7th place?
Oh come on now, it's not that bad. My prediction:
1. Dibaba
2. Dibaba
3. Dibaba
4. Huddle
I wish Huddle the best. But she does the have speed or the tactics to win a major medal.
Plus anyway she only races to beat the best American.
notseeingit wrote:
3 Ethiopians
3 Kenyans
Do they give a medal for 7th place?
Tell that to Kara Goucher who got bronze in the 10k at World in 2007
Or Flanagan who got bronze in the 10k at the 2008 Olympics
Or Rupp who got silver in the 10k at the 2012 Olympics
And with Huddles credentials, consistency, and times, I don't see why she can't be like Rupp/Goucher/Flanagan and put her self in a position to medal this year at Worlds or Rio
molly ran 30:47 last year in what i'm fairly sure was her only 10,000m race. that's about as good as her 14:42, and just about equal to her new half PR (half is a little worse but NYC isn't an easy course).
say she gets in 30:25 shape this summer. a bit off flanagan's AR of 30:22.
that's definitely in the medal hunt for 2016. you've got betsy saina, sally kipyego, joyce chepkirui out of kenya alone.
say chepkirui opts for road racing over the track. saina ran 14:39 last year and 30:46 on the roads.
i'm just gonna call a 4th place finish for huddle. maybe i'll remember predicting this next year, but i doubt it.
notseeingit wrote:
3 Ethiopians
3 Kenyans
Do they give a medal for 7th place?
No but maybe for the best looking. And africans shure as hell arent winning that
http://dailydomer.nd.edu/assets/159253/fullsize/molly_huddle_feature.jpghttps://twitter.com/RayPFlynn/status/490216001204928512/photo/1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANeqCK0bY9s&t=158B-licker wrote:
After the american record no smiles, after winning USAs no smiles, after winning NY half, no smiles
Hope this helps.
When she is able to run a fast 5k/10k with a huge closing 400-800m, then she has medal potential.
How are medals won at the olympics and world championships? Kick. Strategy and kick. Centrowitz can kick. Symmonds can kick. Rupp can kick.
Huddle is a strong runner with fast times, but I don't see her even in the same game with the Dibabas, Defar, or Kipyego.
John Clendon wrote:
When she is able to run a fast 5k/10k with a huge closing 400-800m, then she has medal potential.
How are medals won at the olympics and world championships? Kick. Strategy and kick. Centrowitz can kick. Symmonds can kick. Rupp can kick.
Huddle is a strong runner with fast times, but I don't see her even in the same game with the Dibabas, Defar, or Kipyego.
she just destroyed kipyego on Sunday.
John Clendon wrote:
When she is able to run a fast 5k/10k with a huge closing 400-800m, then she has medal potential.
How are medals won at the olympics and world championships? Kick. Strategy and kick. Centrowitz can kick. Symmonds can kick. Rupp can kick.
Huddle is a strong runner with fast times, but I don't see her even in the same game with the Dibabas, Defar, or Kipyego.
+1
She is awesome and a model for US distance running...but she hasn't proven that she has a kick. Without a kick, something weird would have to happen for her to medal at 10k. Heat, dropouts, a crash, bad pacing up front while she picks up the scraps at the end...could happen, but not in a normal race I think. Although if KGoucher could medal, so can huddle I suppose.
That's one reason she has been running roads - you don't need a kick in the marathon. I'm sure she is headed to the marathon very soon - the only question is if soon means 2016 or 2017.
She sure outkicked Joyce Chepkirui in NYC on Sunday
She Outkicked wrote:
She sure outkicked Joyce Chepkirui in NYC on Sunday
excellent. But a March half marathon is not the same as a summer championship level 10k on the track
agip wrote:
John Clendon wrote:When she is able to run a fast 5k/10k with a huge closing 400-800m, then she has medal potential.
How are medals won at the olympics and world championships? Kick. Strategy and kick. Centrowitz can kick. Symmonds can kick. Rupp can kick.
Huddle is a strong runner with fast times, but I don't see her even in the same game with the Dibabas, Defar, or Kipyego.
+1
She is awesome and a model for US distance running...but she hasn't proven that she has a kick. Without a kick, something weird would have to happen for her to medal at 10k. Heat, dropouts, a crash, bad pacing up front while she picks up the scraps at the end...could happen, but not in a normal race I think. Although if KGoucher could medal, so can huddle I suppose.
That's one reason she has been running roads - you don't need a kick in the marathon. I'm sure she is headed to the marathon very soon - the only question is if soon means 2016 or 2017.
She's not running roads because she has no kick. She's running roads because it's good overdistance in a base training phase for a spring/summer track season. She won't be moving to the marathon until after 2016 Olympics. The women's 10k runners aren't huge kickers, save Defar and Dibaba. A bronze is a definite possibility in the 10k...
agip wrote:
Without a kick, something weird would have to happen for her to medal at 10k.
Not meaning to be snarky, but do you remember Flanagan's last lap when she won her Olympic 10k medal? It was a fast race, and she was one of the last three women standing, more than 4 seconds clear of the next finisher. To be fair, maybe that's what you mean by "something weird" -- in that race, the Kenyans tried to cover Abeylegesse's hard move at 6k, and later paid the price. But that's not really that unusual: in Olympic or WC finals, most of the contenders want to win gold and some of them blow up trying.
I'd say Huddle's medal chances are less than 50%, but if she continues running well, she'll be among the half-dozen or so with a shot at the bronze.
hold the phone wrote:
agip wrote:Without a kick, something weird would have to happen for her to medal at 10k.
Not meaning to be snarky, but do you remember Flanagan's last lap when she won her Olympic 10k medal? It was a fast race, and she was one of the last three women standing, more than 4 seconds clear of the next finisher. To be fair, maybe that's what you mean by "something weird" -- in that race, the Kenyans tried to cover Abeylegesse's hard move at 6k, and later paid the price. But that's not really that unusual: in Olympic or WC finals, most of the contenders want to win gold and some of them blow up trying.
I'd say Huddle's medal chances are less than 50%, but if she continues running well, she'll be among the half-dozen or so with a shot at the bronze.
I think we are agreeing. I wrote almost the same thing you did.
