Is it time for Jordan Hasay to hang it up? Hasay 2:41:43, Flanagan 2:40:34.

I say Hasay is passé

Iron Bars wrote:

Is is time for Jordan to hang up the racing flats? She was done by the 10k mark. I really wish Jordan well and thoroughly enjoyed her breakout performances as a youngster, but it looks like her best days are far far behind her.

6:10 pace, 2:41+ finish.

https://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.net/2021/?pid=leaderboard

Virtue is a Patient wrote:

Ite ad Joseph wrote:

Maybe Jordan should tell the truth about NOP. She owes it to the sport. God might bless her then.

Or... possibly, she doesn't have anything to share. Correlation is not causation. Just because she ran for NOP doesn't mean she saw anything NOP is/was accused of.

EVERY NOPer is a doper.

The weight lifting could be her problem. She is training muscles to move in a way that is not conducive to the running motion. So, her body fights itself when she runs. Have you ever seen a power lifter and/or crossfitter run? They run "tight." Bottom line, deadlifts and squats where both feet are planted on the ground, are not specific movements to running.

First, there is an entire thread devoted to this:

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10723201

Second, Jordan needs to do the noble thing and tell NIKE that the money she is earning from them needs to go toward up and coming female athletes because she is clogging the way for someone else or a group of young ladies. When Alan Webb didnt hit his mark before the trials his last time out, even though he had the qualifier, he gave up his spot for someone else. That was about the classiest thing Ive seen. I am not sure Jordan is capable of foregoing her own ambitions in the name of a bigger picture vision - development for other USA runners who deserve at least 1/4 the chances she has given.

Jordan could actually help build up the next generation while planning for the next phase of her career: coaching and/or financial backer of a training group. What that means, Jordan, when you read this, you buy a house not in Boulder (take notes from Drew Hunter) and not in California or Flagstaff and give a select group of up and coming young ladies the opportunities to live and train as care free as you had it. Might I suggest places at altitude in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana to be cost efficient. There is plenty of beauty out there not yet had. You can even become the spark to a new training hub hot spot. Do your homework Look for 8500ft or above. Also, Boulder is overcrowded already so stop posting about it on instagram and creating the potential for more of an influx. We dont want you here and you shouldnt want to be here. Find a place that's quiet.

Nell Rojas lifts heavy quite often and has proved time after time how beneficial it is especially today’s performance. It’s not the lifting for Jordan. She looks particularly gaunt, even for an elite runner and I suspect there’s some serious burnout and endocrine system issues at play. She should pull the Desi card and just not care for a few months and jog when she feels like it or not.

Nike is a big business. They have an endless supply of cash, do you seriously think Hasay's contract is going to prevent them from signing someone else? She's not hogging up a varsity spot in high school. If they want another runner, they'll just sign another runner. Nike doesn't care about a half million dollars.

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my goodness. Shalane beat her? Shalane who is running on the tiredest of tired legs?

It is absolutely time for Jordan to hang it up. Nike needs to cut her loose. Thinking about all the other athletes who's contracts they have reduced or suspended over the years for much less.

There's no there there. There was one great performance a few years ago. But she just isn't able to duplicate it. Her career is over.

Here you go, Jordan:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3811-Mortensen-Ln-Island-Park-ID-83429/104635815_zpid/

* $680,000

* 6300ft

* Mountains nearby (i.e. higher altitude)

* Dirt trails everywhere

* Enough space to build a 10-person slumber house for more guests (ask Nike)

* Not far from Yellowstone and Mt Washburn in Wyoming

All you need is a couple of vans, an internet connection, maybe a hot tub or two and your disney collection. Nike would eat it up.

You’re comment seems over-the-top nasty. I don’t think we can judge her personal life like that.

My question is: does a pro athlete always have to be in deep training and racing? - or would Nike allow her just to rest up for a year and reboot? She’s obviously in a down spiral and a nice long break might be what she needs. She’s got the talent and is young enough that she can still achieve more - not time to hang it up by any means - perhaps just a good long break for deep recovery.

Title X wrote:

Here you go, Jordan:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3811-Mortensen-Ln-Island-Park-ID-83429/104635815_zpid/

* $680,000

* 6300ft

* Mountains nearby (i.e. higher altitude)

* Dirt trails everywhere

* Enough space to build a 10-person slumber house for more guests (ask Nike)

* Not far from Yellowstone and Mt Washburn in Wyoming

All you need is a couple of vans, an internet connection, maybe a hot tub or two and your disney collection. Nike would eat it up.

Jordan should consider coaching Spencer Brown. She can train him from a girly-man weakling into a powerhouse who is able to do more pushups than his undernourished girlfriend. It would be a coach-athlete instagram match made in Heaven.

Hasay has Systemic Scleroderma with Interstitial Lung Disease

Tough to read many of these comments. Have known Jordan since she was 6th or 7th grade. She's a wonderful person. Please keep in mind she's human. Great job to all Americans who ran tough the last two days at 26.2.

I don’t think she knows how to take a break from the sport. Running has been her identity for over half her life. I think she will keep chipping away at it to where it’s self destructive (might already be At that point).

Shalane also ran Chicago yesterday. "She finished the Boston Marathon in a time of 2:40:34 just one day after completing the Chicago Marathon in a time of 2:46:39."

why do you people want everyone to quit? give up? Hang it up?? That is in essence what the problem is with our entire society...things gets hard and they quit period. Even if she runs 2:40 for the rest of her running career, she ran a 2:20 marathon and is one of the fastest americans ever, and she got to run as a job. Maybe you should go run, have a bad race...or better yet a bad year, and keep going instead of getting on message boards talking about what others should do. Pathetic

Precious Roy wrote:

The only comparable example of a top US marathoner completely coming unglued like this is Ryan Hall. Maybe Hasay just went too hard at it and has been damaged beyond repair.

Umm...ever heard of Alberto Salazar?

John Wesley Harding wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

The only comparable example of a top US marathoner completely coming unglued like this is Ryan Hall. Maybe Hasay just went too hard at it and has been damaged beyond repair.

Umm...ever heard of Alberto Salazar?

Or Dick Beardsley? Or pretty much most every marathoner at a certain point?

This downturn can't be fun for her. I am sure she is hoping that she can find a physical cause for all of this, as continuing under the uncertainty and slow times has to be very discouraging.

A very famous coach who I know once told me that when you are really on top of things to take advantage of it as success can be fleeting in this sport. You just never know.

calbuffalo wrote:

Tough to read many of these comments. Have known Jordan since she was 6th or 7th grade. She's a wonderful person. Please keep in mind she's human. Great job to all Americans who ran tough the last two days at 26.2.

Same here, I have known her since her first Junior Olympics XC race, I really wish she can get whatever is wrong sorted out. It is really frustrating to watch her compete like this, I wish her the best.