astro wrote:
The steeplechase is historically the weakest discipline. That said, going from 9:41 at the age of a covid senior to running faster than the old ncaa record seems....odd. That is not a younger runner developing in college. That type of improvement would be curious in itself. But then at nearly 23 she developed the ability to run in the very low 15s, then post-23 ran sub-15, then just missed the ncaa record in the 5000m along with a gaggle of Kenyans. That is a Red Flag seemingly. I think there is absolutely a doping conspiracy centered around BYU, but just a sign of the times. Like I said, once we had Valby prancing around the track breaking records with laughable ease, and a cadre of foreign mercenaries and Kenyan pros with all their sordid baggage, the holier than thou, "but its perfectly logical" act gets old. It isn't. All the retconning and gerryrigging wont change it.
9:31 in 2023 not 9:41 and the subsequent improvement was over two years. How many times does that need to be repeated before you stop lying about it?
LHL ran 15:02 last year at age 22. She ran 14:52 this year at age 23. A 10 second progression at age 23 is not unusual.
And once again you have no comment on Napoleon nor Hartman nor Gapes nor Stephens all of whom have equal or faster progressions than anyone at BYU. Whatever BYU is on NC State is taking double doses.
Hartman was 10:24 in HS and got to sub 15 in 3 years. Tuohy was 9:48 in HS and got to 15:03 in 4 years. How do you explain that?
