Colleen Quigley DNS

I have a pretty face.

What else??

It’s better for her “brand” to act like she could have been a contender if not for some injury than to go out there and bomb. She knew she couldn’t make the team so she scratched.

Stop pretending you are a pro athlete

Just sell the lulu and pretend you are a SJW

She actually warmed up. A lot. I thought she was doing a workout she was doing so many plyometrics. It was crazy… Next thing they are calling her name to the clerk

She had a good video about telling her younger self how to keep running in perspective.

She also had a good vid about the Fifth Avenue Mile--but it's 90' the wrong way. Oh Steeple Squigs...I think she's a great follow on social and represents the Midwest well :) All joking aside, I'm pulling for her to get back to form!

One hopes that you are never in a position to advise anyone to just "gut out" a 10-minute race because it can't permanently damage your body. Staying in a race ten or twenty seconds too long can destroy a career.

There's always barber college

but also her entire family flew out to Eugene (not easy to get to) to watch. I think she thinks she's going but she's so competitive that if she feels like she's not going to run up to her standards then shuts down and would rather not just run

She is the queen of cringe. Remember when she wouldn’t interview with LRC because she didn’t like peoples comments on her? How insecure can she be, and on top of that PROVE the haters are right.

Her track career is definitely over. I genuinely wonder what the high ups at LuluLemon think about all of this

DNS is way better content than a bad race. In fact, for these Instagram influences racing is the worst kind of content (even if they're successful).

I mean we all can see how it just feels like a charade. Dropping out minutes before it starts without really indicating any issue beforehand just posting happy stories about racing and whatnot. Just feels dishonest and it could be excised if this was a one off thing. But she’s pulled this stuff multiple times. Almost seems like she wants to appears like a pro and all of it without ever racing. It’s frankly odd and I really have sympathy for her previously but it gets soooo annoying.
and all commenters here saying “she could permanently damage her body”. Um yes but also a smal hip twinge isn’t the end all injury she makes it to be. She was scared to run that is all and we all know it. If she had a stress fracture or similar we’d all know about it. Cannot wait for the mopey post today.

She’s starting to remind me of Letsrun legend “Skeeter Stephens” a bit. At least she is only a has-been as opposed to an outright fraud.

Maybe she should help out the unsponsored athletes by giving up her sponsorship to someone who isn't pretending to be a pro athlete.

Also, Valby is way hotter.

Finally, jamin opines on something he's an expert on.

Not sure if calling her a quitter like Biles was is 100 % correct . then people calling her a mental health hero during the summer Olympics no less made it worse . Biles that is

Colleen’s heart is not into this anymore . more social media posts usually is a sign of lack of focus on the sport and trying to keep herself relevant . trialthons may not be an easy thing either . Competitive world .

They can still use her in ads as a model with the title of Pro Runner. The median Lululemon customer doesn’t care about these events.

I think Colleen simply wants to stay relevant in the sport and have people look at her, but that time has passed. I tuned in to watch her race given it would be a good story, but I'm done, won't watch any longer. I also don't think she is truly invested in track and simply wants to get "clicks".