Unknown(?) Local Runner Claiming to be Shooting for US Woman's 10 Mile Road Record

The only non-crazy but weird explanation is that this thread was started by an IP address originating from Austin's office. This is his idea of a joke on Let's Run.

Yeah, if this is her coaches doing and she is unaware of what she can actually run (hard to believe that could be) that's low.

Lawyer Up wrote:

Yeah, if this is her coaches doing and she is unaware of what she can actually run (hard to believe that could be) that's low.

Agreed!

Straight from the Rossi playbook, her Facebook page is now gone.

I hope it is real. It would make for a great story.

just like that UFO picture, I want to believe....

But, if they really thought she had the potential to set the 10M record, why wouldn't they just head down to DC for Cherry Blossom a few weeks later? Faster course, and guaranteed drug testing to validate the record.

I hear that Alana is moving to Quakertown to train with Dr. Fresh Diet Sebicum

darkwave wrote:

just like that UFO picture, I want to believe....

But, if they really thought she had the potential to set the 10M record, why wouldn't they just head down to DC for Cherry Blossom a few weeks later? Faster course, and guaranteed drug testing to validate the record.

I asked Jill this on FB and she replied with the following:

"Hi Katie! The truth is that I won't be given an opportunity to compete, on gun time, for prizes until I've become known."

and then I tried to explain that you can register and win a race without being some sort of declared "elite" and got:

"I believe my coach has reached out to Bob. But in all honesty, one of the biggest reasons why I'm waiting for this particular race, is because I have an allegiance to the practice that owns it. My coach, Austin Sedicum, is also my employer."

Sorry, that should be Quackertown.

No shortcuts wrote:

Straight from the Rossi playbook, her Facebook page is now gone.

Instead of deleting the Facebook, why not just admit that it's a hoax and apologize? Maybe she felt all the attention was distracting her from the goal of 51:31 on race day and she will active it again once she breaks the AR.

Sometimes Letsrun ruins things by talking about them too much... If we kept mostly hush-hush and just waited until the race, we'd probably see a huge fail or a spectacular performance... Since people ended up questioning the race director and jill about it, she's prob gonna pull out.

Nice job, Letsrun...

Guys, it's probably a dog. The dog claims she has "allegiance" to this guy Austin. That's a dog thing to say.

Let's just consider for a moment Mike Rossi pacing her and her actually running this fast.

Black screen Letsrun front page?

Interesting Stuff wrote:

Sometimes Letsrun ruins things by talking about them too much... If we kept mostly hush-hush and just waited until the race, we'd probably see a huge fail or a spectacular performance... Since people ended up questioning the race director and jill about it, she's prob gonna pull out.

Nice job, Letsrun...

Too true. Although I think whatever was going to happen still would've happened if we had the thread but people didn't harass her and the RD directly.

But how can we not talk about it? It's a huge story in running. Especially if it's true.

I think the claim will be withdrawn for one reason or another and the story over by early next week at the latest.

Actually, might be some truth to that. If you're going for the women's win or prize money at Cherry Blossom, you have to participate in the separate women's elite start, which goes off 10 minutes before the main race.

Now, she could still start with the masses at CB, which includes the elite and sub-elite men (so guaranteed people to run with in that low 50s range); someone will have to refresh me on whether she would be allowed to set the women's record by starting with the men. I would think she could, if she can set it in a mass start at Quakertown.

On a separate note, who's "Bob"?

darkwave wrote:

On a separate note, who's "Bob"?

Maybe she meant Bill, the elite athlete coordinator for Cherry Blossom?

darkwave wrote:

On a separate note, who's "Bob"?

Bob Bodkin, the race director. Read through the thread on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Quakertown-Rotary-103306433084073/?fref=nf

what about Broad Street? practically local - super fast course...and to get into the elite field you don't have to have run THAT fast, but yeah, i guess you would have HAD to run....

pranks wrote:

darkwave wrote:

On a separate note, who's "Bob"?

Bob Bodkin, the race director. Read through the thread on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Quakertown-Rotary-103306433084073/?fref=nf

Ah - thks.

My advice to Jill, should she be reading:

First, some info cut and pasted from the Cherry Blossom site:

"American Development Prize Money: A total of $25,000 in prize money will be awarded in 2016 to the top 10 U.S. men and women as detailed below. "Double dipping" is permitted, so anyone finishing in the top 10 overall and in the top 10 among U.S. runners may collect both the open and the U.S. awards. There is also a $10,000 American record bonus for the first American man or woman to break Greg Meyer’s American record of 46:13, set here in 1983, or Janet Bawcom’s single-sex American record of 52:12, set here in 2014; the $10,000 bonus will be split if two new American records are set at the 2016 race. "

With the above in mind, I suggest that Jill tempo the Quakertown race, going for a relatively easy 54 minutes. Then use that time to get into CB (I'm sure they'll let you in if you have a valid 54 minute 10 mile race time) and go for the AR at Cherry Blossom. Why pass up all that cash?

Judging from the Cherry Blossom language, looks like you do need to be in a single sex race to set the AR - are they going to give Jill a separate start at Quakertown?