My god Molly Huddle is good. 66 days after Boston she runs a 4:38 final 1600 to win her 4th straight 10k title

fhdagdfg wrote:

Lol, she ran a 2:50 marathon...and you're saying it's impressive she ran a final 4:38 1600 at the end of a 31 high 10k 66 days after boston?

I was a 30:20/2:27 (only ran the marathon twice) and could have run a 2:50 marathon as a long run, and then a day or two later run 31:high for 10k with a 4:38 last 1600.

Molly Huddle is a much better runner than me so why is her performance anything special?

If you can't understand why a 4:38 closing mile is impressive, you are a fool.

It was not your typical 2:50 marathon--cold and rain w strong headwinds--hardly a fair weather 2:50 and most of the other most of the other elites ran sub par if you judge by time alone

rojo wrote:

4:38.39 if my math is correct.

Bravo.

73.14, 71.76, 68.99, 64.52.

I wonder how many women in that field can't run that fast all out for 1600?

Congrats to her and Stephanie Bruce. Bruce had 60 days of recovery from London and was third.

Love the Huddle...she's a class act !!!

The funny thing is that her PR for that distance is only around seconds faster so she seems to be able to hold a pace close to her anaerobic threshold for a sustained period--perhaps her mile mileage allows her to do this.

around 10 seconds faster I meant to say

Snarkatine Sid wrote:

rojo wrote:

4:38.39 if my math is correct.

Bravo.

73.14, 71.76, 68.99, 64.52.

I wonder how many women in that field can't run that fast all out for 1600?

Congrats to her and Stephanie Bruce. Bruce had 60 days of recovery from London and was third.

Love the Huddle...she's a class act !!!

Agreed that she's a class act!

@rochellekanuho

Didn’t have the day I wanted BUT Molly Huddle said “Good Job, Rochelle” immediately following the the race & my life is complete. I could totally have imagined the whole thing but I’m pretty sure it happened.

George213 wrote:

Snarkatine Sid wrote:

Love the Huddle...she's a class act !!!

Agreed that she's a class act!

@rochellekanuho

Didn’t have the day I wanted BUT Molly Huddle said “Good Job, Rochelle” immediately following the the race & my life is complete. I could totally have imagined the whole thing but I’m pretty sure it happened.

The only way she could be better is if she went to Notre Dame.

Oh wait...

She did!!

That’s pretty awesome ?

After how many days would this just be another impressive track race?

She's had plenty of time to recover.

fhdagdfg wrote:

I'm a guy, so the biggest titles I won were local road races. I worked full time and trained as hard as I felt like.

Molly is a better runner than me, and on any given Sunday I could have gone out and run 2:50 for a marathon. Then Tuesday showed up on the track and ran exactly what she did last night as a workout. It would have been a nice, solid workout. I wouldn't have needed 66 days of recovery between the two.

So tell me, how is what Molly did anything other than a workout for her? Are workouts impressive?

You also are clearly a loser that feels the need to trivialize the accomplishments of the greatest American female distnace runner ever. I'm guessing that you would have dropped out of Boston this year.

Not a College Runner wrote:

After how many days would this just be another impressive track race?

She's had plenty of time to recover.

For me it is more than just recovery time. It is the fact that she has been focused on marathon training and managed to recover AND change her focus to the 10K and win the US championship.

she closed in 64/4:38, that's the impressive part. It's not easy to get that fast twitch back for some. Jenny Simpson closed her 1500 prelim in 62, for reference

fghrunner wrote:

she closed in 64/4:38, that's the impressive part. It's not easy to get that fast twitch back for some. Jenny Simpson closed her 1500 prelim in 62, for reference

Great range!

Scorpion_runner wrote:

rojo wrote:

4:38.39 if my math is correct.

Bravo.

73.14, 71.76, 68.99, 64.52.

I wonder how many women in that field can't run that fast all out for 1600?

Congrats to her and Stephanie Bruce. Bruce had 60 days of recovery from London and was third.

SUB 2:20 AND SHE WILL BREAK DEENA'S AR IN THE MARATHON. It's coming!

and a week ago she was racing against Keitany in the mini 10k. She understands that you can't totally throw away the fast

stuff. You still have to run 10ks and halves. She is learning from the great mary k on how to be a blazer.

So when Gwen runs a decent 10k, it means nothing for her marathon potential. But when Molly does, it's sub-2:20? Come on, man.

No, I'm not. Molly is great. She won a national championship! When I was competing she would have beat me in a marathon and we would have been right by each other in a 5k/10k! If she was at her best I would have had to be at mine to avoid getting beaten by her. I fully admit all that and aren't trying to trivialize anything.

I'm merely saying that rojo's heading, "My god Molly Huddle is good. 66 days after Boston she runs a 4:38 final 1600 to win her 4th straight 10k title" is way out of proportion for what she actually did.

He should edit it to say, "My god Molly Huddle is good. She runs a 4:38 final 1600 to win her 4th straight 10k title". Problem solved.

Running like 90 seconds off a 10k personal best 66 days after a marathon isn't impressive. A 4:38 final close is I guess. I would assume this was nothing but a 5 mile tempo for her with a fast close.

And I wouldn't have run Boston this year. I hated the two marathons I did so I never did another one!

So when Gwen runs a decent 10k, it means nothing for her marathon potential. But when Molly does, it's sub-2:20? Come on, man.[/quote]

this thread is about Molly, not your gf Gwen.

Huhvbn wrote:

Rupp-esque

+1 , though she has to win a few more in a row.

Whatever, bud.