Hasay is BACK baby!!! 68:40 half-marathon debut in subpar conditions, #2 American debut ever!!

In the world of T&F, the half is always a weak distance. However fast you run in a half-marathon, there's nothing to brag about. Get back to us when she runs a fast 5k or marathon.

The haters here are never satisfied. She is going to kill it in Boston and make a lot of people here eat their words!

hasay nation wrote:

The haters here are never satisfied. She is going to kill it in Boston and make a lot of people here eat their words!

Being a great half runner, or 5K runner, doesn't mean you'll be a great marathon runner. Ask Kim Conley.

2:24-5 potential. Corroborates her 10-miler. She has been running the shorter stuff to long, time to move up.

Quality Qontrol wrote:

2:24-5 potential. Corroborates her 10-miler. She has been running the shorter stuff to long, time to move up.

Agreed. She is a distance runner, always was and wasted a couple of years trying to prove otherwise. Focus now towards being on the Tokyo marathon team in 2020, along with Huddle. In the meantime (starting with Boston), trying to learn the event.

This^

Her future is on the road.

kitty bar the door wrote:

[quote]Quality Qontrol wrote:

2:24-5 potential. Corroborates her 10-miler. She has been running the shorter stuff to long, time to move up.

Agreed. She is a distance runner, always was and wasted a couple of years trying to prove otherwise. quote]

It just AMAZES me how IGNORANT people are about injuries. Hasay didn't waste a couple years, she got injured and didn't get back in top shape until AFTER the Olympic trials. You can't take an extended break and just come back faster than you were with years of build up. That takes time. In professional sports, most athletes don't get back to peak productivity until at least a year after injury.

Great effort stuck to her race plan and moved up as people died off. But man does she look thin

This ^

she was in this sort of fitness exactly two years ago, but never had the chance to show it, as she picked up the PF. real shame about the plantar, because that one is a real bitch to get rid of (as evidenced by her long return to form). Sure she basically lost two years to injury but another way to look at it is that perhaps she prolonger her career by a year or two...

Either way, I'm looking forward to her knocking it out of the park in BOS.

No matter how much people like to hate on the Oregon project they seem to be very good at training for the marathon.

+1 for all of the above.

Runner0134 wrote:

No matter how much people like to hate on the Oregon project they seem to be very good at training for the marathon.

Part of that is they only take the very best runners in the US (and elsewhere) and provide them with the very facilities, top coaching, and top doctors.

Incredible debut, better than Molly Huddle's 69:01!! And she is just getting started + quite young!

let's not compare hasay's time to huddle's. different conditions, different race.

reed wrote:

let's not compare hasay's time to huddle's. different conditions, different race.

Actually, quite comparable. New York is a tougher course but the 97% humidity in Houston made it fairly tough. I would say they conditions were roughly comparable.

Huddle in the 10k > Hasay in the 13.1

Only for now! Huddle is also 7 years older than Hasay. Give it more time and who knows!

Actually she did. Her 2014 was basically a series of getting ripped apart at on the DL circuit and in domestic competition at the shorter distances. 2015 she was injured. 2016 she had recovered from her injury and had been having good training, but was unable to translate it into results. Her 2016 struggles were not for lack of fitness; she cross trained her butt off and had months to regain it. Emily Infeld, Colleen Quigley and Abbey D all ran well at the Trials to make the team, coming back from much more recent injuries than Hasay's. it wasn't her injury; she just wasn't made for the track.

That said, it's awesome to see her success on the roads. Super happy she found her niche.

Well you know wrote:

Her 2014 was basically a series of getting ripped apart

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Thanks for again proving my point.

10,000 Metres Performance31:39.67 Wind Place Palo Alto, CA Date04 MAY 2014

10 Kilometres Performance31:39 Wind Place Boston, MA Date13 OCT 2014