Great races today and last week. Speaking of which, if Lauren Ping again finished 17s behind Katelynne Hart at FL, that'd place her in...5th, just after Katherine Lee. So a hypothetical question, given that FL does not take 7th graders: is there any reason to believe she could have gotten top-5 in San Diego? (And is the world Pinged-out for now? I haven't seen any chatter about Lauren's accomplishment.)
I think it's pretty much a given that she would've. Wolfgram and Covert were 7th and 9th and Ping set her peak perfectly...she proved at NXN that she was in better condition than those two, so top 5 is reasonable
we don't talk about louren because apparently the reason grace is shlumped and not running is because the media put too much pressure on her or something
btw anybody see that grace has a youtube channel and vlog from nike regionals?
its kinda cringy but fun to watch.
epicTCK wrote:
we don't talk about louren because apparently the reason grace is shlumped and not running is because the media put too much pressure on her or something.
Thanks. Grace was reported to have had a quad injury. Did Grace (or her family or coach) ask the media to back off?
Ah, the irony, given how many were asking her family/coach to back off and not have Grace flying all over to compete in jr high. Anyway, NXN favors extremely light runners due to the very soft terrain, which is why allowing 7th-8th graders is inherently bad at NXN; it paints the picture girls need to weigh less than 105 pounds if they want to be top-10. So it's unlikely Lauren Ping would have done as well at FL since she benefitted heavily at NXN by being light enough to not sink into the muddy grass.
Just Pinging wrote:
epicTCK wrote:
we don't talk about louren because apparently the reason grace is shlumped and not running is because the media put too much pressure on her or something.
Thanks. Grace was reported to have had a quad injury. Did Grace (or her family or coach) ask the media to back off?
i don't know about them telling the media to back off, but there were some threads about how milesplit way overhyped her and (perhaps) contributed to the pressure on her to run fast early on.
I do think milesplit should have calmed themselves a bit, but whatever.
It's just one injury for now at least, if it becomes a trend then there's reason to worry. You all act like nobody ever gets injured in this sport
And Lauren just won the usatf 11-12 age group Saturday so she's only 12?
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
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