I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
Appears she uses it for conditioning. Her track coach is probably the XC coach. She can come out run on grass, jump in a meet or two and go lift. Beats training on your own.
I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
[/quote]
You're kidding...Right?[quote]Larry David wrote:
It's her "staying in shape" sport. Nice to see her in XC instead of soccer.
I have a cousin who was state champ in 110 meter hurdles and high jump during track season. Ran XC, consistent 19 minute 5k guy.
Phantasy Star wrote:
It's her "staying in shape" sport. Nice to see her in XC instead of soccer.
I have a cousin who was state champ in 110 meter hurdles and high jump during track season. Ran XC, consistent 19 minute 5k guy.
Not sure if you need to be developing slow twitch at her level. 27 mins is to slow for her training. Now, maybe running some indoor 600's is a good idea. Skip the useless cross races and maybe some slightly over distance stuff 600-800
5150 meters? What?
She was 16 years old last year. Moving around, staying active, and being with her friends is not a waste of time. It seemed to turn out pretty well.
It's 3.200... miles, that's my best guess.
Seriously mate? wrote:
5150 meters? What?
A lot of meets 27 min 5K is last or very close to it. Doesn't sound like she took to serious . She could probably run 21 min right now. Not sure , but I would not advise her to train for distance events from now on
Her official time was 27, but 8 minutes of that was refusing to move off the starting line.
Larry David wrote:
I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
M long hurdlers and long sprinters do XC and aren't any good at it. It's just to spend time with friends while staying active and in okay shape during the offseason. Very few (if any) of those kids do the same workouts the varsity XC kids are doing--if the XC kids are doing 400s, the coach might have the long sprinters do 200s, and so on.
It's probably a requirement for all athletes in McLaughlin's competition district to run at least one meet throughout the season to be on the team.
rosshm16 wrote:
It's 3.200... miles, that's my best guess.
Seriously mate? wrote:5150 meters? What?
That course is at a super flat and for some reason finishes by doing a lap on the track in the park. It would be super easy to cut the distance and have the finish line in a different spot on the track for a legit 5k but it's never been done that way.
It's so flat though that my coach always said a time on that long course pretty much corresponded to a 5k time on the Holmdel course. It was pretty much within 5sec for my high school team.
NJGuy wrote:
I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
You're kidding...Right?
Larry David wrote:
No.
Coach Pink wrote:
A lot of meets 27 min 5K is last or very close to it. Doesn't sound like she took to serious . She could probably run 21 min right now. Not sure , but I would not advise her to train for distance events from now on
Yeah, it really hurt her -- she made it to the Olympics at age 16. I don't think she needs YOUR advice.
Larry David wrote:
I'm really surprised such an extraordinary athlete would compete in a sport in which her performance was so relatively poor:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Athlete.aspx?AID=5993655#/L0
If she is not doing another sport in the fall, XC is an excellent way to stay in shape, especially if she adds in some specific sprint conditioning. Chances are, Sydney won't be doing 10 mile runs and invitational meets, etc. There are a lot of world class sprinters who ran cross in high school, Dalilah Muhammad and Nia Ali are 2 current athletes who quickly come to mind. Btw, H.S. track coaches are often the XC coach as well and there is no way her coach is going to allow a world class athlete to take a 3 month break when the other world class athletes only take a 3 week break.
Coach Pink wrote:
A lot of meets 27 min 5K is last or very close to it. Doesn't sound like she took to serious . She could probably run 21 min right now. Not sure , but I would not advise her to train for distance events from now on
she's not training for the 5k any more than I'm training for the 100 when I do my post run strides.
Why are you surprised? I would be surprised if we heard that McLaughlin runs 50+ miles per week training for XC. Lot of T&F coaches encourage their 400m specialists who do not participate in a fall sport to participate, XC. Keeps her from getting fat August through November.
She has such a negative attitude during interviews that it wouldn't surprise me if she sandbagged cross country
Edwin Moses claimed to do 6-mile morning runs on the golf course with Henry Rono...
What else is she going to do in the fall? Train by herself for meets that won't start for 6 months? Ha!
Normal for a high school kid.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these