That's mean. Sticks and stones. LOL.
You just....don't get it. The idea that you are evaluating her 10000m based on her time when she never had the slightest intent or need to run a fast time a week after Soundrunning is utterly laughable. And you are calling me imbecilic? Ironic.
You also cannot read.
And? That's why sprinting and distance running are different with the different rates of progression. Every single year there are Olympic level sprinters in US high schools and colleges. Has a US female distance runner (1500 and up) ever made an Olympic team while still in college outside of maybe the Steeple? Maybe Suzy Hamilton?
Not that anyone should assume that US sprinting is clean (not in 60 years judging by the doping busts), but it does not have the EPO problem, which throws everything off kilter.
44.00 men is a 48.70 400 for women. She probably can do this.
Doesn't matter about ranking or how many have run that or better or iaaf points, etc. 44 athleticly is at least a 48.70 for women. A 44 flat men, might be 6th collegiate list.
Women's 400m has sort of been a soft event for awhile and has been hard to stomach the last 20 years. I would love to see someone get close to 48 soon.
astro wrote:
Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because she has been a star since sophomore year of high school, just broke 4 NCAA records (three of which were set in 2009), and is easily the top female distance runner in the NCAA. People were curious about her running a 10000m at the conference meet. It is the first 10000m she ever ran. It may be her best distance when all is said and done, and if she comes back Koll's record is in major jeopardy if she focuses on it. People want to focus on the time in a race she was never going to run hard a week after the 5000m record, but what mattered is the extreme ease in which she ran it and the close.
Anyway distance running and sprinting are different sports. High school and college sprinters can run world competitive times and peak earlier. Especially on the female side distance runners don't peak until their mid to late 20s and the WR marks are so far up the EPO zone they are on a different planet than anything a college runner can hope to match. So there is an aura of mystery and projection about how a college distance athlete will progress.
At this point KT should win the Bowerman, but sprinters definitely have an edge if the criteria is world competitive times.
Wrong! Sprinters peak in their mid to late twenties too. And the women’s world records in the 100-800 have stood much longer than the records for 1500 up.
Britton should win the Bowerman because she is the best performances. It’s as simple as that!
How do you think Britton should celebrate when she wins the Bowerman?
astro wrote:
Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because she has been a star since sophomore year of high school, just broke 4 NCAA records (three of which were set in 2009), and is easily the top female distance runner in the NCAA.
I’m a Tuohy fan as well, but why would you post this? Wilson has run incredible times, both nationally and internationally. Why diminish her achievements just to praise Tuohy’s?
If you’re trolling, solid attempt. But if you’re being serious, this is not the way to show support for Tuohy.
Bowerman for Britton! wrote:
I think the OP is referencing the excessive hype given to Tuohy. Her slow 10k got 14 pages of comments. It’s time we pay more attention to the most impressive American woman running in the NCAA today: Britton Wilson!
So, by wanting more people to pay attention to Britton (and apparantly not Tuohy), they indirectly reference Tuohy...thereby bringing more attention to Tuohy.
Another brilliant post!! Why not just give Britton your attention
Anyway, great for Britton...she is awesome!!
I'm mimicking the OP. Wilson is going to be an Olympian.
Bowerman for Britton! wrote:
Wrong! Sprinters peak in their mid to late twenties too. And the women’s world records in the 100-800 have stood much longer than the records for 1500 up.
Britton should win the Bowerman because she is the best performances. It’s as simple as that!
Sorry for the typo. Sometimes I get so excited by Wilson’s greatness I misspell!
Bowerman for Britton! wrote:
How do you think Britton should celebrate when she wins the Bowerman?
Julien Alfred might have something to say about this. It's going to be a close decision.
Here is the issue. Next year there will be another Wilson or Steiner or Mu. Heck, Stanford has Willis as a freshman. And another. And another. We won't see another college distance runner like Tuohy probably in a decade at least. If she cannot win it might as well take distance runners out of contention for the award.
Tuohy is the best woman college distance runner, easily dispatches her challengers. No knocks here for that 10,000 time. Heck, with good health and lots of luck, she might — maybe — make it to Budapest.
But “should win the Bowerman?” No.
What, in the name of truth and justice, would you expect of Britton Wilson, Jasmine Moore or even Julien Alfred, for them to breathe that rare air?
It’s possible for a distance runner to win. They just need to run world-class times. Like Jenny Simpson did when she won the Bowerman in 2009.
So far this season Tuohy has broken four NCAA records, won two Indoor titles with Outdoors coming up, and broke records that go back almost 15 years. What else can she do? Who has had remotely a better year? If the criteria is run within N of the WR, good luck with that. No female runner runs 14:30s or below without a lot of magic beans. Every year new world class sprinters emerge in high school/college. US college distance runners that pull off what Tuohy has emerge when, once every decade or two?
astro, go away, this is Britton thread.
We really do not need next obsessed Tuohy fan thread.
Bingo, you gotta play a fool to a catch a fool!💪🤘
Again, Tuohy is a marvel with a world of potential. But Britton Wilson, right now, is world class, and Tuohy isn’t. Wilson’s talent is more exceptional. If distance runners have a tough time winning the Bowerman, so what?
One more thing, do you Tuohy guys have merch? Dolls and stickers and jackets? Are the sleepovers every week?
You brought her name into it with the first comment. So no.
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