Ezekiel bread wrote:
Over or under 2:40?
You should set lines for a living.
Ezekiel bread wrote:
Over or under 2:40?
You should set lines for a living.
I ran the City of Lakes marathon as a senior is high school in 1969. Dropped out at mile 22 due to hypothermia. Recovered OK.
Nota Robota wrote:
Well, she's also got her Olympic Trials q time. Now it will be interesting to see if she runs in them.
I’d pick running in the Olympic trials over the Minnesota state championship
Umm, maybe she wanted to race a marathon. Now.
And maybe she will want to keep racing them. Or not.
Maybe she will want to run college XC/tack. Or not.
Why not live your own life and let her live hers.
Kudos to her for a fine accomplishment.
Hi mom.
Will she accept it and give up NCAA eligibility?
Will be great to see her and Gwen Jorgensen battle it out for 20th place at the trials.
You don't even realize that you are doing the same thing by questioning him. She likes to run, he likes to come on LR to provide opinions about runners, you like to to come on LR to critique posters. Why not live your own life? I at least realize that we are all doing the same thing.
Mn776 wrote:
2:38pace at 21 miles. Course is fast the rest of the way.
Course is uphill the rest of the way
So she says she had no time goal and ran it for fun and that leading the race for the first 10K was a fun thing.
This is awesome. Do the stuff you want to do! Who cares if it is not optimal for every next step? I honestly feel like this stair step mentality of what comes after what seriously hurts American distance running.
fun & games wrote:
So she says she had no time goal and ran it for fun and that leading the race for the first 10K was a fun thing.
http://www.startribune.com/tierney-wolgram-15-year-old-from-woodbury-finishes-sixth-in-twin-cities-marathon/495583911/#
Yeah!! That sounds like a fucking blast!!
;lklj wrote:
My wife ran 2:50 at Gmas and was only a 17:00 runner.... this girl will run in the 2:40s...
My grandma ran 2:50 at the Wife's Mararathon...
While not all of us would have made this choice, it is obvious she is built for long stuff and had a heck of a race. I saw her at 19 and could not believe it. Looked very strong, even with her start being a little too ambitious.
Congrats to her, it should be a fun race between her and the Ping sisters at state.
very tough kid
funfunfun wrote:
This is awesome. Do the stuff you want to do! Who cares if it is not optimal for every next step? I honestly feel like this stair step mentality of what comes after what seriously hurts American distance running.
One good post finally. Who says that natural born marathoners must run mid-D events until 18, 5&10k 19-22 then a big dramatic move to 1/2 Marathon at 23 in anticipation of a much-publicized marathon debut? Some of you will say that State Athletics Federation decided that, but who gave them any authority over you, me, or her? Ditto NCAA: they are welcome to make all the rules they wish but NOT to force her or anybody else to adhere to them.
Why is non-school-affiliated running prior to one's mid-20s considered so wrong in the court of public opinion? It certainly wasn't always, as shown by various posters above. I was a teenager and actively road racing in the late '70s and early '80s and can assure members of later generations that in the time period that the US was a global marathon force that teenagers ran them all the time. I don't really know when official school-sanctioned seasons began and ended but I suspect all my high school marathons were during track season. I was not at our heroine's level but was certainly under 3 hours and was nowhere near getting on the podium for my age group. I remember finishing behind the girls winner for our age group. Although they were often closer to 2:50 than 2:40, they were dedicated runners who probably had about as much to do with their school teams as I did, which is to say none at all. We teenager didn't all know each other. I'd often ride with 2 or 3 other guys from school but there were generally more than a dozen kids our age that we didn't recognize. That's how common road racing was; it wasn't just me and that other weird dude who also didn't run for his school.
I believe this achievement should be highly praised but only a few posts go that way. This time is very impressive even compared to an era when kids actually competed at long distances en masse. Who says she cares about a State Meet or the NCAA? All of you do, I get that, but the East African All-Stars don't and in my mind it's about time they became the standard of comparison for Americans including the young lady in question.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Where are the parents? This girl is on a HS XC team. She foresaked her team for personal selfish glory?
who let her do this?
I would not want her on my college team.
tritimes wrote:
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Where are the parents? This girl is on a HS XC team. She foresaked her team for personal selfish glory?
who let her do this?
I would not want her on my college team.
0/10
For perspective, Alana Hadley made a splash running nearly two minutes slower at age 16, and peaked less than 90 seconds faster at age 17. Tierney seems to have done this on a much more low-key basis, she honestly could be a Schiro/O'Brein-level talent.
Columbo wrote:
For perspective, Alana Hadley made a splash running nearly two minutes slower at age 16, and peaked less than 90 seconds faster at age 17. Tierney seems to have done this on a much more low-key basis, she honestly could be a Schiro/O'Brein-level talent.
She's got 66-67 400 speed. She's nearly maxed out aerobically already. Still an impressive effort, especially if the early splits are accurate.