Colleen quigley??

I would

Yes. That is correct.

Smart! Hope to see her run at Hayward.

Pre Classic was never realistic, regardless of fitness. Nike controls the entries and the appearance money. She isn't on their 'Nice List.'

Some of the comments here are so bizarre. To the extent that Colleen continues to promote her sponsors through an injury cycle and a training build-up, it speaks more to her professionalism than anything else.

Athletes go dark constantly -- we just found out why Centro hasn't been racing, for example. These situations don't spark weekly speculative threads that we see for Colleen Quigley.

Honestly, the best comparison is Evan Jager. He's frequently injured, has long stretches of not racing (and even longer stretches without racing his premier event), and is likely closer to the end of his career than his prime.

Evan Jager isn't on the Pre Classic start list, but he does have an Instagram post up about his sponsor. Is Evan Jager a "washed up influencer pretending to be a pro runner?" Let's at least be consistent here.

Im a fan (-ish) of quigly but her situation is not really analogous to centro or jaeger. Quigly has not raced a steeple in almost exactly 3 years. In that time she has raced outdoors once. She is incredibly visible and is always trying to engage with fans, but NEVER about what is actually going on with her running. Thats what annoys people. If you want to be a pro runner ans you dont run your event for 3 years and youre constantly posting on social media about “running” without actually revealing anything, it all feels fake and is frustrating to follow

Jager didn’t compete in the steeplechase for four years.

letsrun.com

Evan Jager Runs 8:35, Takes 2nd At Mt. SAC in First Steeple in 4 Years

LetsRun.com

The good news is Jager finished his first steeple in 1323 days. The bad news is helooked like a shell of his former self but we have four silver linings for you.

Open link

I guess it’s true that we “see” more of his training in that BTC has Courtney White on retainer. But we have no idea what he’s actually doing. The same could be said of Quigley when she was with BTC.

In what universe is an Olympic medalist a fair comp?

Gone and never coming back.

Was a good run.

Forever an Olympian.

Plus she’s hot.

She’ll milk the sponsored social media posts and PR stuff.

Her husband prob makes 150k to 300k in SanFran

She's good 👍

I said mid-4:00s because that’s what it’s paced for. As opposed to, say, mid-4:10s or mid-4:20s.

She is irrelevant

Don’t expose yourself - only flyover states call it “San Fran”. Besides, they live in LA.

This is reasonable. I was leaning towards:

1. One race before USAs as a "ruster buster"

2. Said race doesn't go well, so she pulls out of USAs with a lengthy explanation of why race #1 didn't go well (despite hyping it up beforehand on IG)

It's not a terrible strategy since it will draw attention on IG

She must be milking her "injury" for financial gains as she knows if she races, she'll reveal herself as unsponsporable based on poor results. It's pretty apparent that that's the case here. Or perhaps it's a nondisclosure agreement after testing for a PED. One or the other.

For someone who advertises hyperice/normatec and other recovery+strength products you have to wonder if any of this stuff actually works if she’s always injured.