How good is Irene Riggs?

Here is the all-time combined 2M list:

Combined 3000/3200/2M list (expressed as 2M):
9:38.68i
*Cain
2013
9:43.38+i
*Efraimson
2014
9:43.87+
Rainsberger
2016
9:44.44i
Cook
2022
9:45.16+i
*Tuohy
2019
9:47.95i
Thorvaldson
2021
9:50.70
Frias
2022
9:50.72
*Riggs
2022
9:50.92+i
Starliper
2020
9:51.00i
Brown
2021

Riggs has a decent shot to top Tuohy/Cook this spring. She already has established herself as one of the all-time XC greats.

excited to see her go head to head against future Stanford teammate Amy Bunnage whos put up some really impressive times here recently. curious what other fast internationals she will be running against.

I would think Tuohy's 9:01 for 3000 converts to faster than 9:47.95 for 3 miles? Maybe 9:44+? Starlipers pr was 9:07.14 for 3000 which does seem to convert to 9:50+

I wish I could predict futures better lol. My gut tells me Shea has a bright future. She has similar range as Tuohy which is better than Hutchins had. Cook clearly is doing well in college.

the use of the word "dominates" seems dubious but anything for clickbait I guess.

she seems very happy to get a chance to get this once in a life time opportunity. also great that she completely downplays the whole "battle of the champions" nonsense on social media when it was just about making the top six. interesting she has no expectations for the race.

It is the standard 1.08 conversion.

You guys can downvote all you want. At least the Great Edinburgh was a real event. The Jr. Worlds is a farce that will be dominated by doped up U20 African runners with their vaunted "genetic superiority". (LOLLL!). I mean, sure you get to put "ran for team USA" on your resume. And sure, it is an "experience." But we are not talking about a 6 hour flight to Scotland. We are talking about almost two days of travel and about a week of your life for a bunch of high school kids to get beat in the most preordained fashion imaginable. Seems like a lot for a pointless, farcical exercise in a junior race, but OK. To each their own. Have a blast. Australia is a nice place to visit.

As weird as it sounds, many of the HS runners who represented their country at World XC had sub-par senior track campaigns. Ritz is the best example. His Junior PR at 3200 and his senior XC predicted a national record that never came at 2 Miles.

9:45.16 that is. Formatting is weird.

1.08 * 541 = 484 = 9:44 not 488 and 9:48!

I was thinking about this yesterday oddly enough: shouldn’t the conversion from 3k to 2-mile be slightly tighter than 1500 to mile, since speed-decay is relatively greater at shorter distances as opposed to say, 15k vs. 16.09k?

I recall when Rojo started a thread after Tuohy broke Cain's 3000m record about how Cain was faster based on a 2 mile conversion despite running a slower time. Creative math.

Are you sure he wasn’t saying that Cain’s indoor 2 mile (9:38.68) was a superior performance to Tuohy’s 9:01.81 3k? That’s inarguably true since 9:38.68 for 3218.68 = 8:59.36/3000, a faster pace for a longer distance.

Who gives a damn? She’s female and she was 1st, and your particular type of troll post is one of the most pathetic and immature in the book.