Emma Coburn feeling confident: "I know that I've had the best 20 weeks of training that I've ever had"

No, it means they went out unsustainably fast, and she's not an idiot.

The splits for the race leaders were incredibly even, Coburn got gapped even more towards the end of the race. Hilarious that the American commentators just assumed that the field would come back and mentioned that "Coburn knew her body" when the exact opposite happened.

Kara was making excuses for Emma . Watch the replay, Emma was dropped after 60 meters.

First steeple in a number of years and still the top American. She didn’t go out with the lead pack and it came back to bite her. She’s had plenty of other races in the past where she didn’t go out with the leader and won medals at the world stage, so I won’t be too critical of her. She has had an extraordinarily long career at an exceptionally brutal event.

She's an all-time American distance great, no doubt. But that was hard to watch last night, for both her and Frerichs.

Nobody with credentials has run steeple. Emma boo ran an event where top ladies didn't and benefitted greatly.

Now that world class ladies are racing steeple Emma boo decries drugs vs welp my event is now showing that I'm just a hobby jogger. Her 1500 and 3000 are regular ncaa times. Not world class.

In their defense, the winter in Colorado was unusually difficult this season, smoke from the fires, a lot of snow and cold temps, really windy almost every day. I don’t believe Emma left the state to train. She trained on the treadmill a lot.

Emma’s situation is a thousand times better than the average African .

Interesting that she and Frerichs both ran so far off a competitive time. It's a long season but they both need to get back to race sharp again soon.

You can hate all you want, but your hate doesn’t change the fact that Emma Coburn is a World Champion and Olympic medalist. Deal with it.

Then why lie and say you've had the best training in you life and then not even try to run anywhere near your normal pace?

That is correct. Certainly if the first lap pace was say 8:50 pace and she can only run 9:00, you'd have seen her close, however she started way back and went further back each lap. Remember she claimed she had her "best 2 months of training" ever!

Correction: Best 5 months*

Maybe overtrained too deep into the event?

The Africans came to race on Saturday and that was apparent from the gun. They were not messing around. Coburn, Frerichs, and Rainsberger were out of it after only 600 meters and the crowd in Hayward was stunned by that. The Africans have upped their game and I suspect that it will take an 8:53 or faster to medal this year. I don't think that Emma or Courtney are prepared to go that fast.

Was Saturday the World Championships in Oregon? No. Emma doesn't need to disrupt her training for few extra bucks at Pre when she has nationals and worlds circled on her calendar.

Then why not stay home and train , why pay the few extra bucks to travel.

I agree that WC is the goal, but I have my doubts that either Coburn or Frerichs can dip well under 9:00 and medal in July. Not rooting against them. Just observing that the others were well out front and our women didn't look competitive in comparison.

Coburn is done at the world class level. That is clear as day. She had a good run but the event has become much more competitive and she is not equipped with any advantage, other than her hurdling technique. Plus, her coach is not super experienced as to have a vast knowledge of what stimulus needs to change for his runner that is aging and needs to do something el different.