I hope so too. I didn't post the whole article, but it seems that over the last two or three years she has lost her love for running. Leaving LA and Bobby is definitely a step forward. I hope to see her next season at her best
Kersee sticking her in a 5:00 paced 1500m to “work on running in a pack” will go down as one of the stupidest pro coaching decisions ever. Talent doesn’t go away but can definitely be fumbled by lack of reasonable direction.
Kersee sticking her in a 5:00 paced 1500m to “work on running in a pack” will go down as one of the stupidest pro coaching decisions ever. Talent doesn’t go away but can definitely be fumbled by lack of reasonable direction.
bizarre choices from kersee last year, but the more that comes out on her, maybe she was mentally gone last year, and he was just willing to try anything to get her to a meet, and try to get the juices flowing. who knows.
i don't expect to see her again. maybe a half hearted comeback attempt at some point. but this sport isnt' for the feint of heart.
bizarre choices from kersee last year, but the more that comes out on her, maybe she was mentally gone last year, and he was just willing to try anything to get her to a meet, and try to get the juices flowing. who knows.
i don't expect to see her again. maybe a half hearted comeback attempt at some point. but this sport isnt' for the feint of heart.
I've been critical of Kersee but but it's pretty clear whatever Mu was dealing last year went beyond just coaching issues. Running 2:03 at Pre last year was a clear sign she wasn't committed to training, and there's nothing any coach can do if their athlete is mentally checked out like that.
I hope she comes back but she needs to get to a good place mentally. Leaving LA was a good first step, hopefully she can reset and discover her love for the sport again.
Kersee sticking her in a 5:00 paced 1500m to “work on running in a pack” will go down as one of the stupidest pro coaching decisions ever. Talent doesn’t go away but can definitely be fumbled by lack of reasonable direction.
It’s cute how all of the internet coaches think they knew how to keep an athlete engaged in training when she was obviously done.
I don't understand why she doesn't try to recreate what was working -- being part of/adjacent to a college atmosphere, and/or working with the coaches with whom she had success. I think the former is particualrly important -- the structure and social excitement of a college atmosphere can be wonderful for humans of a certain type, and perhaps she is not made for the solitary life of a pro runner in a more traditionally professional setting.
If you're Olympic champ early in your career, it seems like you'd have no where left to go but down. As tough as it would be to motivate after the highest high, that's exactly what she's got to do, or keep trying to do before too much changes. Good sponsorships and hopefully a good marriage should create opportunity for her to make whatever changes she needs to find the fire. But it may be that washing up will be a part of the difficult-to-watch process of rediscovery. Even Olympic champs have more to give - world records, multiple golds, legendary performances in other events, personal bests, whatever. Can she really say she has no regrets?
Athing has struggled to break 1:59 for years now. They're on completely different tiers. She needs to worry about people like Roisin Willis before she starts thinking about Keely.
Athin’s arrogance caught up with her. She reached the top and believed haphazard training and Kersee’s cocktails would keep her there. She wanted to be Kween while being lazy.
The more I think about it, the more I agree with your conclusion. She did have a touch of arrogance in her that showed in the many races where she would cut in without looking - I am the Queen! - and sent people flying like bowling pins. Officiala letting her get away with it was not the best way to go. Combine that with likely believing that minimal effort would be needed to keep the crown and what you end up with is disaster. It all caught up with her at the ‘24 trials. Sad.
She won’t be competitive again. Priorities have changed it seems. She’ll probably do the same as last year and run one race at some tiny meet and then run nationals and bonk out of the first round.
She also doesnt seem to realise that her only way to a modelling career is through publicity.
Literally not true at all.
You clearly nothing about modelling.
I work with models. Literally on-set at shoot rn, waiting for selects.
Mu's only avenue with modeling is as a celebrity, not as a model. She doesn't live in NYC, she's not repped by an agency, she's not in the fashion world.
i don't know what we're talking about, back to a "small town." philly/camden/trenton is like neverending gritty city. TAMU is 61000 students, and bryan-college station is a quarter million people of fairly developed area. yeah,LA is huge and dense but that doesn't feel like it.
also as some said, she'd be heading the wrong direction for modeling. modeling is big urban centers. LA. NY. milan. paris.
my guess, compare her to someone like gabby thomas, who had to work for it more, and has completed a degree with a completely different, helping humanistic focus (epidemiology). that gives you life-work balance and purpose.
mu stepped into a down era of the women's 8. she had rapid success. she didn't finish college. she did, what, 1 year? kineez major. her life was sports and then she's not sure if she likes that.