“I don’t think we just should train all year long and race twice or three times,” Ritzenhein said. “I think you have to race the best athletes still, I’ve always been in favor of that. With the Olympic year, we have to measure our emotional efforts, but we also can’t be afraid to ever race and can’t be afraid to go out there even if we’re not completely ready.”
“I don’t think we just should train all year long and race twice or three times,” Ritzenhein said. “I think you have to race the best athletes still, I’ve always been in favor of that. With the Olympic year, we have to measure our emotional efforts, but we also can’t be afraid to ever race and can’t be afraid to go out there even if we’re not completely ready.”
We need more of this type of thinking across the board. I’m so tired of runners going pro to only be seen a couple times a year. It isn’t good for the athletes or the fans.
Talitha Diggs is the most interesting name in the bunch because she totally changes the game for Femke Bol in Glasgow, if Diggs makes Glasgow and advances to the final with a good lane.
Diggs is not going to tolerate the European and now Klaver approach of sitting back and allowing Bol to cruise to an uncontested lead in 23.5 range at 200. Last year at NCAA indoors Diggs took the lead against Britton Wilson and maintained it deep into the backstretch. Wilson passed her and ran a fantastic time, the second fastest in history.
That's fine but it doesn't automatically translate into Bol doing the same thing. Everything is more complicated at 400 indoors when you trail on the second lap. Bol lost twice at 2022 world indoors, first when Stephanie McPherson took the 200 lead in the semifinal and again in the final when Miller-Uibo led at 200.
Bol has more early speed now than in 2022. I could see that being a frantic and perhaps bumpy dash to the corner. Alexis Holmes might do the same thing. Once Bol and Holmes had that moment in Budapest it seemed inevitable they would meet again in a high profile setting. That's the way these things work out.
Arkansas' Britton Wilson shattered the collegiate record in the women's 400m final, finishing with a time of 49.48 at the 2023 NCAA indoor track and field ch...
Addison is going to try the 800 / 1500 double? Interesting.
That was the first thing I noticed, too. Hubris?
Why not? Her best chance of making the team is in the 800. Unless something crazy happens in the 1500, she is not beating St Pierre or Hiltz. After she's finished with the 800 final, why not run the 1500? Gain some experience and who knows what can happen if someone falls. Remember the mile-600m-800m-3000m-DMR (mile) she did last winter in less than four hours? She loves to race.