I doubt that. People don't just move for the scenery. There is always a bigger reason. I guess it could also be a desire to get up to altitude? That might be the best option for her long-term development, right.
Yeah I know she de-committed, and it could well be true they’d hold that against her. She did get wrapped up in a difficult personal situation though, and she could score them boatloads of points over the next 3 years.
I don’t understand the Wiley hate: I consider it small-minded and unfairly harsh judgement of a kid; but I am a moran so…
Not trying to derail the thread, my bad. Back to Natalie Cook.
I wasn’t hating on her. I merely mentioned that she burned Colorado and I doubted that Wetmore would be interested.
It wasn’t that she de committed, she was an 11th hour decommit, no? College coaches put a lot of time into recruiting and the time that Wetmore put into recruiting her could have been better spent pursuing another athlete. Additionally, like it or not, there is a bit of baggage there. This isn’t hate, they’re facts.
Risky choice with bone injuries and altitude (diminished oxygen)
Reductions in bone mass, cortical & trabecular architecture, as well as bone strength and longer fracture healing time generally does not occur until inhabiting very high altitudes > 5400 meters. Boulder is at about 5400 feet +/-, which is ~ 1640ish meters. The effects will be negligible
maybe it's just the fact that all of my knowledge of U of Colorado training is all from "Runnnig with the Buffaloes" and this message board, I'm actually a little bit worried, it traditionally hasn't been kind to injury prone runners.
Risky choice with bone injuries and altitude (diminished oxygen)
Reductions in bone mass, cortical & trabecular architecture, as well as bone strength and longer fracture healing time generally does not occur until inhabiting very high altitudes > 5400 meters. Boulder is at about 5400 feet +/-, which is ~ 1640ish meters. The effects will be negligible
I'm sure it is negligible for the typical person, but how about someone like Cook who can't seem to run more than 20 miles/wk without breaking something.
Reductions in bone mass, cortical & trabecular architecture, as well as bone strength and longer fracture healing time generally does not occur until inhabiting very high altitudes > 5400 meters. Boulder is at about 5400 feet +/-, which is ~ 1640ish meters. The effects will be negligible
I'm sure it is negligible for the typical person, but how about someone like Cook who can't seem to run more than 20 miles/wk without breaking something.
Negligible might make a difference for her.
OK, I'll change "negligible" to "inconsequential." There will be no effect.
Let's hear about all of the bones that Cook has broken, wise one. Let us know the mileage that she was running when she broke something.
I doubt that. People don't just move for the scenery. There is always a bigger reason. I guess it could also be a desire to get up to altitude? That might be the best option for her long-term development, right.
People don’t just move because they don’t like a place or think they would like another place more?
OK, I'll change "negligible" to "inconsequential." There will be no effect.
Let's hear about all of the bones that Cook has broken, wise one. Let us know the mileage that she was running when she broke something.
It's not some sort of secret. She wasn't near the runner she is now until her senior year in high school; when she went to mostly cross training. She kept getting injured.
I agree that 5000 ft is pretty much nothing as far as altitude effects go. I don't think you get that much benefit aerobically either. For Cook, guess would be any aerobic benefit will be less use to her running than the greater recovery time is a detriment.
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