Where's the love for Fiona O'Keefe?

It’s moreso a Fiona thing I am talking about - not a coaching fault. Mindset and relationship with food issue. Look, I am not jealous. We all have to play attention to nutrition for performance. It’s a balance, we all know that. The bigger thing is having the appropriate relationship with nutrition and food. Which is the intel I was referring to. Not a bash on the Craggs or O’Keefe, just a concern. Truly and genuinely want her to crush it and continue to! But based on multiple sources here, things may not be be healthy or sustainable with regards to nutrition.

Was it blood on her bib

I wondered that too. Or maybe she cut her hand and wiped it on the number!

My daughter used to bite her lip during races and finish up all bloody.

In longer races I sometimes get bleeding in the middle of my chest from chafing caused by my HR strap as it gets looser due to dehydration, especially if I’m wearing a sports bra that ends just where the bottom of the HR strap is.

Would you shut up about so called "sources"?

How about not trying to take a dump on a special day for her?

In my mind ended up skimming the favs and making my picks, so preferred them. Assumed she would cave in as I assumed Panning would (brave yes, qualified no). So yes, super impressed but still a bit stunned.

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not trying to dump on her. Others had brought up concerns earlier in the thread and was just supplying what I have heard here from individuals who have trained with the team. Like I said earlier, am pumped for her great performance and do genuinely hope she continues to show up and show out.

Fiona has been thin and has had stress fractures forever. Even before High School.

Her recent results make her a 15 min 5K runner. That equates to a ~225 thon.

She ran a monster race.

If you want to show love for Fiona then how about starting by spelling her last name correctly? It's a sign of respect. It's O'Keeffe with two f's.

Yes, 15:05 PB, but also 30:52 10,000 last year, compared to 14:52 and 30:48 for Natosha Rogers. As the distance goes up, Fiona gets better, 67:42 half to 69:36. Fiona also won the USATF 10 mile in 2022. I live 20 miles north of Davis, and have followed Fiona's career since 2015, when she goes out-kicked for CA state 3200. She won it in 2016, then won the U20 USATF 5000. it's probably good that she waited this long to tackle a marathon. I was afraid she had gone too soon, but apparently she is the real deal. So happy for her.

Can you believe it? Wins Trials in her marathon debut and people can’t even bother to spell her name correctly on threads they start. It’s O’Keeffe.

I'm genuinely surprised at the grudging tone of the posts in this thread. O'Keefe, who I knew nothing about, caught my eye early for the ease and fluidity of her stride, even as her low hand carriage seemed less efficient. But my goodness: she got stronger as the race went on, pulled away effortlessly, and seemed to glide over the ground with zero pounding. I'd love to hear Jan Gruenke on her biomechanics.

In her first marathon, a major national championship, she wins and sets the event record, beating the American record holder, Emily Sisson, by 30 seconds. It's surely one of the top-3 American women marathon debuts of all time. What's not to love about this?

AND she did this on a warm day, where one might imagine that any first-time marathoner would either play it a little safer or, pushing too hard, blow up. She did neither. She just blazed on.

Listened to her on a podcast this morning before the race. She talked about her nutrition. She said that she had some "nutrition issues"- not eating enough during and after runs and that the Craggs were constantly on her case about not eating properly/enough. She kind of laughed it off but to me sounded like an athlete walking that fine line for performance benefit. Hope that is not the case. She is a great story and has talent especially in the marathon. I wish her success.

I haven't checked out the post-race threads, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. To me, it seemed pretty clear from early on that she was the class of the field, and I didn't think that the commentators were exaggerating when they said that "we are looking at the future of American marathoning" or something like that. On another thread, I said that I believe that, particularly considering that it was an unpaced championship race with an outstanding field on a record-quality course, it was one of the best marathon performances by an American woman since Joanie's 1985 Chicago victory (which I'm inclined to believe is the best marathon performance ever by an American woman, even including Joanie's Olympic marathon victory the previous year).

She will never make it to the starting line in Paris, she will have interrupted training for various "health related" reasons and eventually develop stress fractures well before ever getting on a plane. She is a walking talking poster board for RED-S. There are all these stories from people that know about her nutrition and even from her own mouth, yet everyone brushes it off because she's the new "it" girl. Circle back to this post in May and you will see I'm 100% right.

Cliché Time:
Where there's smoke, there's fire. 🔥🔥🔥
Let the downvotes commence.