Fiona O'Keeffe OUT of 2026 Boston Marathon

She's anorexic and at a super unhealthy body weight. There, I said it.

That seems like a training volume and body weight issue. I imagine that Morris isn't hitting the same volume that the marathoners are, and she is certainly not tiny (in a good way).

I said this all the way back in 2024 after the Trials and was basically burned at the stake on this forum. It’s unfortunate and hopefully she can get support to take a step away for a bit

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I love the thread about reporting the coaches to Safe Sport. Really??? There's an old saying, "A great craftsman never blames his tools". Fiona chooses to keep her coaches and shoe sponsor because she wants to, if they're running her into the ground and or not providing sound nutritional advice, then she needs to make a change. Just because an athlete is continually getting injured doesn't necessarily equate to poor coaching. Maybe the athlete is too fragile to train under that specific program, it happens all the time. This is especially true in collegiate running where kids who don't progress like they want and transfer because the coach isn't good enough for them. Athlete's need to do their homework, do some research on the coach/club/school. What is their training/racing philosophy? Who is in the training group? How many? What is the coach/group/school culture? Is Puma the only option sponsor wise for Fiona? A lot of variables at play here, so throwing the coaches "under the bus" isn't fair.

Look at the cute lil LRCBF living in moms basement who has never laid eyes on let alone signed a contract in his entire life 🤡

She's saying it's a tendon injury, not a stress fracture. I think I read she had an MRI, too, which should nail down what's wrong with her. That said, right after she dropped out of the Olympics she blamed it on "tightness" and it turned out to be a stress fracture.

She still doesn't look healthy. In one of the pre race interviews I saw her face just looked kind of old and tired. Tendon injuries don't scream ED the way major stress fractures do, but I wonder if she's being honest about the injury

Yeah, in her IG post from ABQ, there's a video clip of her talking and she looks straight out of those post-WW2 films of concentration camp survivors.

To change the sport slightly,

And then I see people like Kristian Blummenfelt run back to back 1:06 halfs in 2 70.3 victories and then drop a crazier 2:30 marathon 2 weeks later in IMT on a course with a ton of twists and turns, including a grass uphill they make the athletes run up.

It's utterly insane how much someone at the top level in tri can compete.

As someone who's done both sports competitively, I can definitely say tri training is easier o on the body, but damn those are impressive runs from KB.

I don't remember it that way.

I remember EVERYONE saying the same thing.

Donuts?! Please don't mention donuts!

Alex Maier DNF