Ostrander>Valby>Tuohy

That’s the nature of sports. Just about every athlete in every sport has had an injury with unfortunate timing at some point during their athletic career. Those that haven’t have been lucky.

For someone that is basically a run influencer she ran very well.

because she now runs on pure hate to the orange pedo

Yeah, Allie O (she/her) definitely loves Trump. lol

Tuohy was nowhere to be seen.

Valby tried and faded but took the chance for the qualification.

Ostrander had a good optimized race but never stood a chance of qualifying.

In that perspective, I would even prefer Valby's race because if you are out of top 6, no difference if you are 7 or 20.

NCAA cross country results. Obviously all three are/were pretty good in cross country:

Ostrander: 2, 4, 6 (turned pro/gave up chance to run 4th season). Average placing 4th.

Tuohy: 24,15, 1, 5. Average placing 11th.

Valby: did not qualify, 27, 2, 1. Average placing 10th.

High school (highest level result per season):

Ostrander: Alaska Region 3: 1, Alaska State 4A: 1, Alaska State 4A:1 and George Fox 1, NXN: 1

Tuohy: NXN: 49th, 1, 1, 1

Valby: Florida 3A: 35, 15, 3, Florida 4A: 2

World Cross Country:

Ostrander: 2024: 29th (2nd American)

Tuohy: DNC

Valby: DNC

small correction

The convicted doper finished behind Tuohy.

Allie O ran a smart race and had a good result. She should trying running a stupid race (go out with the leaders, and see what happens).

Agreed. Normally, Allie’s last kilometre, which was the fastest of the whole field, should have been enough to bring her up to 7th. The problem was that Sterns’ last kilometre was the second fastest of the whole field.

That's nuts, bruh. I've been watching her vids since around the time that her test positive saga occurred, but I never realized it had happened.

So a girl with bad acne test positive for metabolites of an estrogen that gets prescribed for acne, among other things... hmm.

Yeah

The question is why do you get bad acne at her age?

Late puberty. I think she has said she didn't get her first period until she was 25 or something because of her eating disorder.

Quite a performance by Allie.

Saturday’s race was not definitive and in no universe is she better than Valby. If Valby can stay healthy, 14:40/30:20 is not out of the question and she would be close to lapping Allie in the 10.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda...

I like Valby but what happened, happened.

With the world championships being in the U.S., there was a lot of pressure to run USATF, but that doesn’t mean they wanted to, or were prepared for it. Running World XC and finishing 2 minutes or more, behind the race winner, doesn’t provide much motivation to want to make the team.

Yes. When you put things in your body, it messes with your hormones and cycle and causes acne.

Well duh. Nobody thinks they dreamt it. Houlihan earned a world medal this year but finished way back. She will beat Allie by 45 seconds in a 5k in the spring.