https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/695
Awesome! Some people have great time management.
Awesome! Some people have great time management.
Another Semenya?
The time management is not impressive. Scheduling the activities required to be a Harvard professor and ultra runner are trivial.
Actually doing them and having the dedication, motivation, and desire to perform what is required to do this is what is impressive.
gopetego wrote:
Another Semenya?
“It turned out I was actually pregnant during my first 100 miler. So the family joke now is that my husband finished first, I finished second, and the little guy finished third. So the whole family took the podium.â€
The time management to actually DO both and be dedicated enough for both is impressive.
White PI, most students are minority/foreign, 1-2 token white students.
Good to see that things in academia haven't changed. Guess who's getting the faculty positions from that lot...
WOW I just read her resume. She could be the most impressive looong distance runner I have ever heard. And she has three children.
She certainly has to be near the top of the "smartest distance runners" list.
Does she do 180 cadence?
gfdgfdkgdf wrote:
The time management to actually DO both and be dedicated enough for both is impressive.
Being impressed by time management, an extremely basic life skill, is pathetic.
Are you also impressed she manages to pay her bills on time?
Since you're so good at time management, please tell us what Harvard physics professorship you have (or similar) and what USA national titles you have.
I'm impressed. Long ago I made the Olympic Trials in the marathon while earning tenure in chemistry at a decent research university. But I had zero children, and not even a husband. How she can do this with three kids is beyond me.
treath wrote:
Since you're so good at time management, please tell us what Harvard physics professorship you have (or similar) and what USA national titles you have.
Ad hominem. Weak mind.
If you can't manage your time, to run and hold down a job, it sucks to be you.
There's a difference between "running and hold down a job" and being USA champion at a race and a Harvard physics professor. The latter is something most people could not do.
She's gotta be OCD or bi-polar or something and hell to be around.
qqqqqqq wrote:
There's a difference between "running and hold down a job" and being USA champion at a race and a Harvard physics professor. The latter is something most people could not do.
No argument there. Of course they're different. You miss the point. Time management is not the impressive part of her accomplishment.
It's like talking to orangutans here.
I had her as a professor. She is awesome.
A physics professor has an unfair advantage at "time management" because they can slow down time and shit.
24 hr run? So what....A race for non-talented runners who want to exel somwhere.
boring
48hr racer wrote:
24 hr run? So what....A race for non-talented runners who want to exel somwhere.
boring
The WR for 24hr is held by the Greek God of ultrarunning, Yiannis Kouros ,with 303 km. He also holds the 48hr record (nice username) with I believe 294 miles. Why a 5K is any more of a reasonable racing distance / less arbitrary to you than 24hrs puzzles me. 24hr races have a far longer history than 5Ks, steeple, etc.
But you're probably right, guys like Don Ritchie and his 6:10 100K (longest standing record in track and field) were just plodders. btw, he split the 50K in that race in under 3 hrs, and was chasing 2-3 ahead of him.