Allie Kiefer calls it a season

Finisher medals for posting wrote:

Seriously mate? wrote:

These two seem perfect for each other because they have no idea what they're doing.

Says someone who has no idea what he's talking about.

Good luck in your next Turkey Trot

I didn't realize the goal of training was to not recover properly and injure yourself so you can't race. Guess I've been doing it all wrong by progressively building year after year and staying healthy so I can actually race.

One of the principal responsibilities for a coach of highly competitive athletes is to pull in the reins on athletes who want to keep pushing hard when they need time for recovery and adaptation to the already hard training and racing they are doing.

Go out strong, die hard gang wrote:

And yet the Stinsonator still keeps trucking along.

Yeah, he has been killing it these last few weeks of races! Cant wait for outdoor season!

Just an Observation wrote:

Too harsh wrote:

That's a bit harsh. Why all the hate for AK on these boards?

I’m a fan and the first comment was spot on. There are cycles and seasons for a reason. I was worried when she made the post that she was skipping a vaca. It’s not like the athletes do nothing on a vaca. They still do light running but get to unwind after a crazy marathon build up. Dumb dumb dumb. Not hate. Just an observation. Overtraining is real and I hope she figures it out because I find her a refreshing addition to marathoning.

I did not try to hate on her. I wish her the best. But I just was not surprised. She seems extremely obsessive with training and Hudson actively feeds it. :-/ And it seems her injury came again after she thought she needed no time off. Even me as a mere 3:45 female marathoner know if I take no time off and reduce my load I get injured. Its such a basic knowledge, that it makes me sad to see professionals disregarding it and get injured like two months later.

I genuinely wish Allie all the best and a speedy recovery but I can't help but feel there's an element of karma going on here. She had agreed to coach me prior to the NYC Marathon and then just didn't return my messages after the race. A simple "I'm going to focus on qualifying for the Olympics and don't want the distraction of coaching" would've sufficed but she just went dark on me. Not a cool way to treat people, hopefully she uses this time off to recover and reflect on things like this.

What's the injury? Why do instagram runners hide their injuries, but the professionals like Rupp, etc.., let us know?

sacral achilles navicular tendonosis wrote:

What's the injury? Why do instagram runners hide their injuries, but the professionals like Rupp, etc.., let us know?

Well perhaps the "injury" is that she is pregnant, given the time frame off and initial secrecy?

I think you're onto something.

If you read between the lines on her announcement, a pregnancy might explain some of her vague statements about "having people on her side" and the rest of it. I mean, if she had a normal injury like a stress fracture, I don't think it would be a polarizing element to the people in her life.

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You think Brad slipped one past the goalie?

Too harsh wrote:

runningchick wrote:

This announcement did not surprise me the least. She shaded some other athletes for "lying on the beach for two weeks" right after NYC marathon. And was bragging on and on how she scrapped her vacation and was hopping right back into hard training to gain an advantage over them.

Guess she learned the hard way that you get injured when you don't properly recover. Can't say I have sympathy. Jumping right back into 100mile weeks after a marathon is a recipe for disaster and she got it coming a long way.

That's a bit harsh. Why all the hate for AK on these boards?

Why did Allie feel a need for throwing shade on others ? Someone taking a vacation is not her concern.

Shade enabler wrote:

Too harsh wrote:

That's a bit harsh. Why all the hate for AK on these boards?

Why did Allie feel a need for throwing shade on others ? Someone taking a vacation is not her concern.

It is, but only because she spends too much of her life on Social Media.

It's not original but it has to be said: Brad's dumb, he's no smarter than the average coach.

Nothing on Instagram about her throwing shade on vacationers.

There was something about being banned from the Golden Corral buffet on some other thread.