Parker Valby/Natalie Cook - what am I missing?

These days it will get you fired and the woke mob will burn down your house.

I don't get it. Someone said she was tan. As far as letsrun commentary goes, not very egregious.

Tan is a color. Talking about the color of one's skin is not appropriate. Seems pretty clear.

To add fuel to this dumpster fire - the 2022 Utah Girls 5A xc champion was primarily cross training for a couple months leading up to the state meet.

Good time to revive this. Valby and Cook are going 1-2. They look like pros. They run like pros. They are the most humble women in the field.

I am pulling for Cook but predicting Valby wins.

Valby's not any thinner than any other top distance runner. If you want thin, try NAU's two frontrunners at Regionals, but they're healthy, as is Valby. She has rarely been healthy in college for very long. Noticeably, she did not compete for quite a while after the summer because she was not ready. When she did compete, she was very, very good because she'd actually had months of health. When I was in high school and college, I could rarely stay healthy for more than a week at a time. But when I had 10 weeks of health from near the end of xc through indoor track, I destroyed all of my pr's before getting injured again. So, I see no reason why she shouldn't destroy her pr's every time she has a relatively long bout of health at this age.

Tuohy came back from major knee surgery. She is injured but will come out of hiding a few days and somehow run great.

Pull deez nutz, it’s tuohy time son!!

You don't know what surgery she had. She doesn't pr like Valby does, straight after an injury layoff and on only 2 days running a week.

Tuohy fans spent months talking about her major surgery and how incredible it was that she cam back so quickly. She is just so, so much more talented than her competitors. But if the injury was minor, maybe her recovery wasn't so incredible. Or maybe, she wasn't really injured but needed a few months away.

The hypocrisy is insane.

I don't care what "Tuohy fans" are supposed to have said. I haven't read of any major surgery that saw an immediate recovery to huge pr's on limited training.

That's because she isn't as talented as Valby.

What "hypocrisy"? Tuohy has not had the same career path as Valby. If they had, you couldn't make the claim that Valby is more "talented", because she has made much bigger improvements on far less training.

"Talent" is the explanation for everything, when the only credible answer to Valby's dramatic improvements is to acknowledge you don't know how she has done it.

How was Tuohy so fast in junior high? I assumed it was talent but you seem to think it was due to some help.

Do your research before posting things you know nothing about.

Literally no one says she came back quick, no one. It took Tuohy over a year to come back. Per coach henes she had to take 6-8 months off of really training when entering school.