All the top US XC women are tall
Jane 5-11 according to BYU bio
Riley Chamberlain 5-10
Grace Hartman 5-10
Angelina Napoleon 5-9
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Bachelor\'s degree wrote:
Jack Bachelor ducks his head and enters the (chat)room.
Who?
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Ghost1 wrote:
14:00/29:00 which is gold standard now....Chebet and co
C'mon now - you "and co" is literally just Tsegay for 14:00.
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Paul Tergat is 6 foot and a top 5 great. He was racing all the munchkins
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Femme Bol
El Bakkali
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Everybody is an experiment of one. Bolt is a perfect example. Time will tell just how far she goes.
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This thread just shows how ignorant (maybe mal-informed) this site really is, and many should know better. What a silly notion that her height limits her development - there is nothing biomechanical that suggests this being a problem. Please say that none of you actually coach anyone. But then (as alluded to by one sarcastic poster) Bolt should have given up the 100m to go into another sport (he tried cricket).?!
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5\'7\" is the max wrote:
Surprise no one mentioned this, it would be like if a guy was 6'6" and trying to be an elite distance runner
Is it too late for her to switch to volleyball or basketball?
Hedengren is an outstanding runner, so no, she’s not too tall. If her height is a problem, she wouldn’t have smashed the 2-mile and 5000m records last spring. It’s not going to suddenly become a problem in college or as a pro.
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All Jane Hed does is wreck people. Beyond dominant.
It appears that being 5-10 is not a problem for her. Its all about the bottom line.
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Ghost1 wrote:
brahh wrote:
what about paula radcliffe
Radcliffe was 5.9. Tall but not freakish tall. 5.11 for a woman is "out there" and as a distance runner offers no benefits, overall.
Hedengren: But good luck to her. Can she swim? I mean properly (trained from young age) ? If yes, she'd have more chance for world class transition to triathlon.
Compared to distance running, running triathlons is a B-level sport and it would be ridiculous for Hedengren to transition to it. I’m a big sports, but I’ve never watched one on TV and the only gold medal winner I can name, is Gwen Jorgensen.
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No. You guys will really over-analyze everything, won’t you? 🤯
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Ghost1 wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
The Italian Girl who ran 14:23 Says She Thinks she can get to Under 14 and under 29 in the next Year or 2
Battocletti? I have my doubts she'll ever get under 14 and 29 as she's close to her limit right now. 14:00/29:00 are almost ridiculous times for women. 14:00/29:00 men can run 2:08:00-2:09:00 marathons, or faster. Women ... 🤔?
That’s ridiculous. A 29:00 10000m is 4:40 pace and 2:08 is 4:54. That’s a difference of 13 seconds compared to the typical loss in pace of 25 seconds. With your logic, the men’s marathon WR would be 1:50.
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Ghost1 wrote:
She's five feet 11 and I agree that that's really pushing it with regard to potential to be outstanding in distance running on a world class level but I don't think it will stop her from reaching a good national level such as 14:50/30:40.... She'll never sniff 14:00/29:00 which is gold standard now....Chebet and co
Pretty sure Jane could run under both those times (14:50 and 30:40) right now. Regarding the last part of your post, if we’re judging her by her ability to run a WR caliber time then there will always be a lot of doubt, but so far we’ve seen nothing to suggest that she can’t be the best US women’s distance runner in LA in 2028, and honestly it seems like a very likely outcome at this point barring serious injury.
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Kickers usually win wrote:
Ghost1 wrote:
Battocletti? I have my doubts she'll ever get under 14 and 29 as she's close to her limit right now. 14:00/29:00 are almost ridiculous times for women. 14:00/29:00 men can run 2:08:00-2:09:00 marathons, or faster. Women ... 🤔?
That’s ridiculous. A 29:00 10000m is 4:40 pace and 2:08 is 4:54. That’s a difference of 13 seconds compared to the typical loss in pace of 25 seconds. With your logic, the men’s marathon WR would be 1:50.
No it's not ridiculous - I can name dozens of sub 2:10:00 marathoners who are only 14:00/29:00, or slower, but I won't do the work for you, though. All the names are on the Top Lists W.A. site.
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5'7" is the max wrote:
Surprise no one mentioned this, it would be like if a guy was 6'6" and trying to be an elite distance runner
Is it too late for her to switch to volleyball or basketball?
Yeah, just like everyone thought 6'5" was way too tall for an elite sprinter. Then this happened.
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Bachelor\'s degree wrote:
Jack Bachelor ducks his head and enters the (chat)room.
The fact that people always use this example from over 50 years ago supports the notion that height can be limiting. At least for men.
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Elish McColgan has done alright.
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Ghost1 wrote:
Kickers usually win wrote:
That’s ridiculous. A 29:00 10000m is 4:40 pace and 2:08 is 4:54. That’s a difference of 13 seconds compared to the typical loss in pace of 25 seconds. With your logic, the men’s marathon WR would be 1:50.
No it's not ridiculous - I can name dozens of sub 2:10:00 marathoners who are only 14:00/29:00, or slower, but I won't do the work for you, though. All the names are on the Top Lists W.A. site.
Yeah, it is. You might find a Kenyan or Japanese that went straight to the marathon that never ran a serious 10000m, but never an American that ran NCAA or competed in the in the 10000m as a pro, that only slowed down by only 13 seconds per mile. It’s truly impossible. Runners slow down by 10 seconds from the 5000 to 10000m and you think they will then slow down by 13 seconds from 10000m to the marathon?
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taller wrote:
All the top US XC women are tall
Jane 5-11 according to BYU bio
Riley Chamberlain 5-10
Grace Hartman 5-10
Angelina Napoleon 5-9
And how many of them are world class?
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Armstronglivs wrote:
whatchamacallit wrote:
More like if a 6'5" man tried to be a 100 m sprinter. It could never work!!!
And how often has it? One in how many billion?
So Jane Hedengren will be the “Usain Bolt” of women’s distance running. Got it. Agree 100%
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