Allie Kieffer and Coach Brad Hudson Talk Her New York Preparations: "I think I can run 2:26"

Hey, that's cute. Is she small enough to run that fast?

Sure, she can run 2:26. If Thweatt could, Kieffer should be able to. But it's always the same old song and dance with Hudson and his athletes: amazing training block, hit all these specific workouts, they're in better shape than last year, they're in the shape of their lives, incredibly fit, etc. And yet... execution and performance are all over the map. For all the specific fitness, the body often seems way ahead of the head.

One of her responses has first letters in sequence that spell out "Aryan Nation"

Allie is too big to fail.

I hope she has a great race this weekend.

Like A Bosshard wrote:

Hey, that's cute. Is she small enough to run that fast?

yes she is

Talk is cheap.

investment banker wrote:

Allie is too big to fail.

I hope she has a great race this weekend.

I actually LOLed at this.

Won't break 2:30. Take it to the bank.

She has been reading Mein Kampf and is ready to blitz this one.

A lot of eyes on her Sunday.

I honestly don't know how I feel about her yet.

If she runs well Sunday, anything under 2:30, she will be a legit contender for Olympic team and all the press/hype will be warranted.

If she doesn't run well, it doesn't mean she is no longer a contender but I hope it means the coverage shifts to those who have performed better.

Good luck.

Hudson=Overtraining - prediction is that she'll do worse than last year

Barbarossa wrote:

She has been reading Mein Kampf and is ready to blitz this one.

Her s/o to Charlottesville was over the top, now she's just trolling LRC.

Listening to a BroJo trying to debate shoes is like a listening to a sixth grader who barely remembers their parents’ talking points from dinner or a car drive and spits them out incoherently “...but, what about...” holy smokes, how is this guy a functioning adult to be taken seriously st major events of the sport? Organize your thoughts and most importantly listen to your interview subject rather than interrupt them with your immature incomplete takes.

I enjoyed the interviews, total Allie fan here and Brad is cool. Just wish we could have heard more about how she changed form for her bum foot, her reply was interrupted so we didn't get the full story.

bloviating wrote:

Listening to a BroJo trying to debate shoes is like a listening to a sixth grader who barely remembers their parents’ talking points from dinner or a car drive and spits them out incoherently “...but, what about...” holy smokes, how is this guy a functioning adult to be taken seriously st major events of the sport? Organize your thoughts and most importantly listen to your interview subject rather than interrupt them with your immature incomplete takes.

So true, in fact almost all the questions and follow-ups sounded semi-informed, unprepared and awkward, like 6th graders playing "tv news."

As for Keiffer, compared with last year the build-up has her physiologically overcooked and all this attention in the media and on the street in NYC has her psychologically overcooked. 2:28-2:35 or DNF.

bloviating wrote:

Listening to a BroJo trying to debate shoes is like a listening to a sixth grader who barely remembers their parents’ talking points from dinner or a car drive and spits them out incoherently “...but, what about...” holy smokes, how is this guy a functioning adult to be taken seriously st major events of the sport? Organize your thoughts and most importantly listen to your interview subject rather than interrupt them with your immature incomplete takes.

I've been saying only Gault should be allowed to interview for a while now. It's downright painful to listen to a brojo stammer through their questions. I end up cringing every single time. To borrow a favorite brojo phrase, this is why the sport isn't popular: our main "reporters" are incoherent.

Ford Taurus wrote:

bloviating wrote:

Listening to a BroJo trying to debate shoes is like a listening to a sixth grader who barely remembers their parents’ talking points from dinner or a car drive and spits them out incoherently “...but, what about...” holy smokes, how is this guy a functioning adult to be taken seriously st major events of the sport? Organize your thoughts and most importantly listen to your interview subject rather than interrupt them with your immature incomplete takes.

So true, in fact almost all the questions and follow-ups sounded semi-informed, unprepared and awkward, like 6th graders playing "tv news."

As for Keiffer, compared with last year the build-up has her physiologically overcooked and all this attention in the media and on the street in NYC has her psychologically overcooked. 2:28-2:35 or DNF.

Wow what a bold prediction there. Give a huge time range plus DNF.. Very bold prediction. You'll still be wrong. Continue to be a news agenda adhering sheep.

Thanks a lot, dude! Flattering to get response from the basement dwelling critics.

Brad believes anything is fair game when incorporating performance enhancing materials/components into running shoes. I like his point on how some people harness more out of a particular shoe enhancement than others as their running technique lends better to a particular shoe mechanism than someone elses. It will be interesting to see where this goes, and if eventually, regulations will be placed on the shoes as it becomes clear that the shoes are artificially aiding performance to an unacceptable extent, whatever that may be.