Zola Budd 7th place Carolina Challenge (18:43)

Overall or for women?

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Cool that she can still run.

Barefoot?

Clip anybody's heel?

She's 51 wrote:

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

I believe she coaches the Chanticleers at Coastal Carolina

She's 51 wrote:

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Classic

French Dawg wrote:

She's 51 wrote:

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Classic

Why? It really isn't that remarkable to be four minutes outside your lifetime best when you are close to 50 and still running a lot.

in xc vs. track?

Why? It really isn't that remarkable to be four minutes outside your lifetime best when you are close to 50 and still running a lot.

Right. I was nowhere near elite status, but I ran a lifetime best of 18:10 and was still running 21:XX at age 50.

She's 51 wrote:

French Dawg wrote:

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Why? It really isn't that remarkable to be four minutes outside your lifetime best when you are close to 50 and still running a lot.

Throw some of your numbers up there sweetheart and identify thyself .

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

51 years and 101 days.

She's 51 wrote:

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Classic!! And yes, really.

She's 51 wrote:

mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Well, a general rule of thumb is that you are doing pretty well if you can approach your high school PRs in your early 50s...

Btw, I see that she is head xc coach at Coastal Carolina. Anyone know what happened to Jeff Jacobs?

Thinking out loud wrote:

She's 51 wrote:

[quote]mymastasays wrote:

Must be over 50 years old! Impressive.

Not really. It's like 4 minutes slower than her PB.

Well, a general rule of thumb is that you are doing pretty well if you can approach your high school PRs in your early 50s...

Btw, I see that she is head xc coach at Coastal Carolina. Anyone know what happened to Jeff Jacobs?[/quote

Who has ever heard of your rule of thumb ?

Did you ever have a full time job, raise a family ,nor any strife in your life a zz hole ?

Thinking out loud wrote:

a general rule of thumb is that you are doing pretty well if you can approach your high school PRs in your early 50s...

The Beijing WC had an 50-54 invitational men's 800, none of them ran sub 2.

amkelley wrote:

Why? It really isn't that remarkable to be four minutes outside your lifetime best when you are close to 50 and still running a lot.

Right. I was nowhere near elite status, but I ran a lifetime best of 18:10 and was still running 21:XX at age 50.

Its because you were no where near elite.

First thing to remember that really running elite pace wheres the body down. You never raised a sweat when it came to time keeping. That means you have plenty left in the tank.

Many of us elite guys can barely walk properly. We left it on the track when it was meaningful.

You jogged around and cheer about your multi decade endurance.

I'm looking at master athletics records. I am looking at youth age records. 50 to 54 year old performances seem similar to 12 to 14 year old performances.

Long neck small dick wrote:

She's 51 wrote:

Why? It really isn't that remarkable to be four minutes outside your lifetime best when you are close to 50 and still running a lot.

Throw some of your numbers up there sweetheart and identify thyself .

16:56 lifetime, 17:45 at close to 50. Pretty bad but not such a huge difference.

Not sure why you're all offended. It just seems like Budd still trains pretty hard

Before you say I must have barely done any training it required a couple of years of 80 miles or so per week to even crack 17.