Her Kansas State career. Highlight, 9:46/3000 indoors in 2015, Senior year.
She was basically a 10mins+ 3k runner most of her college career. I don't think anyone at KSU would have predicted 8:28, 8 years post college. They would have said "Are you nuts?"
Her progress has been phenomenal.
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I raved about Galvan on the SC podcast yesterday. And also found this thead to be amazing. Peopel were impressed by her amazing improvement 4 years ago when she was basically a minute slower for 5k. Now she's WAY better.
Can you confirm this interesting rumor with documentary evidence thank you. Obrigado, ...
Got to speak to her and her coach at Millrose. Older gentleman. It’s not Jonathan Morales, but I’m drawing a blank right now. She’s got great mechanics, solid support from HOKA Mexico. That 8:28 was huge as she just PRd over 5000m twice in Budapest. I think she’s clean.
I remember a female distance runner named Galvan who was (I'm pretty sure) busted for EPO at least twice. (I associated her with the southwest.) That, I thought, was a very long time ago, although I seem to remember that she was able to enter some races over the years. Does anyone else recall this? And if so, any relationship?
I remember a female distance runner named Galvan who was (I'm pretty sure) busted for EPO at least twice. (I associated her with the southwest.) That, I thought, was a very long time ago, although I seem to remember that she was able to enter some races over the years. Does anyone else recall this? And if so, any relationship?
Nil. Hunter-Galvan is a Kiwi and hasn’t been relevant for at least 15 years if not 20. Liza is certainly closer to Hellebuyck than this Galvan. Her daughter ran at Rice, tho.
I remember a female distance runner named Galvan who was (I'm pretty sure) busted for EPO at least twice. (I associated her with the southwest.) That, I thought, was a very long time ago, although I seem to remember that she was able to enter some races over the years. Does anyone else recall this? And if so, any relationship?
Nil. Hunter-Galvan is a Kiwi and hasn’t been relevant for at least 15 years if not 20. Liza is certainly closer to Hellebuyck than this Galvan. Her daughter ran at Rice, tho.
Liza Hunter is from New Zealand the furthest thing from Mexican. Educate much?
I think Galvan runs substantial mileage in winter so not sure about JS's contribution. J.S. is a good fit for quality runners in the 50-70mpw bracket, people like Dr Yann Schrub (13:11/27:47) perhaps. He might also be a good fit with Hassan Chahdi (1:01/2:08) also low mileage, who usually does his second mileage of the day.... on a bike....
I think this Mexican lady, Galvan, is legit, but what amazes me is her transformation from 4:30/16:30-17:00/34:00/35:00, mid twenties to 8:28/14:44 at age 31. That's unusual.
She was not running in her mid= twenties period. She left the sport entirely for about 3 years to make a living.
I think Galvan runs substantial mileage in winter so not sure about JS's contribution. J.S. is a good fit for quality runners in the 50-70mpw bracket, people like Dr Yann Schrub (13:11/27:47) perhaps. He might also be a good fit with Hassan Chahdi (1:01/2:08) also low mileage, who usually does his second mileage of the day.... on a bike....
I think this Mexican lady, Galvan, is legit, but what amazes me is her transformation from 4:30/16:30-17:00/34:00/35:00, mid twenties to 8:28/14:44 at age 31. That's unusual.
She was not running in her mid= twenties period. She left the sport entirely for about 3 years to make a living.
Ok, that hiatus from running is unusual but possibly not unprecedented.
She appears legit. Would be good to know the catalyst for her propulsion to World class elite. Which coach took her there?
I am surprised to read the assumptions of some of you who have not the slightest idea of the athletic environment of your neighboring country!!!! Somebody comes up with an unsubstantiated idea, a gossip and from there, others follow them. I live and work in Mexico City and I know Laura Galvan's trajectory since she started running when she was a little girl. Her coach's name is Cecilio Blancarte, they live and train in the city of Guanajuato and yes, the article that appears in the Milenio newspaper describes a good summary of her sporting career. They, Laura, her coach and her work group, have no connection with Rodolfo Gomez, who by the way, is still working as a coach here in Mexico City. She lives and trains at high altitude most of the year, Guanajuato is a high region between 2200 to 2600 m above sea level. They have no official help from the Mexican Athletics Federation. Later I can share with you part of her training program that she has been following since returning from the USA. His coach is a close friend of mine and he shares with me the work she has been doing. Laura is a great combination of talent, the right environment, family support and a very passionate Mexican coach with enough experience and knowledge to take an athlete from a medium level to high performance.
Noooope, not at all! She works with a Mexican Coach, in the city of Guanajuato, state of Guanajuato. Before she went to study at KSU in 2011, the then coach of that university, Mike Smith made a recruiting trip (September 2010) to her home in the outskirts of Guanajuato. Laura did not speak English at the time and spent her first few months at KSU learning the language before taking classes.
We had this conversation when Galván appeared a few years ago. She is as dirty as they come. From no prior indication of global-level relevance to absolute force.
Please spare us with the “rank college then did blah blah blah and came back to running.” That’s the same thing people say about Keira.
this is PROBABLY correct, but there is a possibility she was averaging something like 40 mpw in college and has been able to make a jump to the 65-80 range now. THere are college programs that seem to have very little oversight on their athletes.
One of the reasons why a foreigner student-athlete does not improve during their stay at an american university is because they have a hard time ADAPTING to the american model of competitions: The american universities have 3 seasons in only 11 months: XC, indoor and outdoor. In Mexico we do NOT have a XC season, it does not exist as such, only a few races in terrains that do not resemble XC. The Mexican athletics federation has never been interested in developing this type of athletics. Even so, in Mexico we have some athletes who do very well in this XC terrain. Laura is one of them, she is an excellent athlete for XC as well.
Here in Mexico we don't have any indoor tracks and for the same reason, we don't have an indoor season either. But some coaches in Mexico we are interested that the athletes know this kind of indoor competitions and tracks. So we organize some trips to Boston or NYC for the athletes to have experience and LEARN how to compete.
So any Mexican athlete with an athletic scholarship in an american university only has 6-7 outdoor competitions of experience and very few quality competitions. Laura and other Mexican athletes who have migrated to study in the USA is because american coaches have seen them in college competitions (in her case, Coach MIke Smith saw her at Mount SAC Relays) or major international junior events.
Galvan comes across as a God-fearing Catholic but maybe I'm being naive and not in full cognizance of reality as it is.
I hope she's legit. It's very rare to get world class female distance runners from Mexico. They had a world class female sprinter from Mexico about ten years ago in the 400 meters.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s male distance runners from Mexico were the equivalent of Kenyans and Ethiopians right now and they had so many Mexicans at that time who could run under 28 minutes for 10,000 meters. They also had many world-class marathon runners.
Ana Guevara, in the 400m. She was likely an intense doper, eventually developing musculature not seen in cis or even intersex women. She started out much smaller.
Galvan’s rise is now a bit suspiciously steady and fast, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if she had just been poorly trained for a long time. Indigenous Mexicans have long shown the ability to excel at distance races (wasn’t there another female distance runner at the marathon? Adriana something?) They just don’t have the same coaching resources and training facilities as the US does. I hold dual US/Mexican citizenship, so I’ve been able to see the difference first-hand.
It depends on where you have been. Your generalization is very superficial, lacking in arguments and wrong.
Have you approached any training groups in Mexico City, Zacatecas or Guanajuato? Have you seen firsthand the work of universities with student-athletes in Mexico? where?
Many people wonder why there are not more athletes like Laura Galvan in Mexico. The answer is very complex. It has more to do with the lack of organization of the mexican athletics federation and the current sports structure by the government. Yes, there are some modern training centers that some Mexican and foreign athletes use. There are a lot of parks and forests with very good weather and at different altitudes. There are many young people with great talent for speed and endurance events, but most are dedicated only to study, very little time to train, since elite athletics does not have the same structure of sponsorship and support of other countries, they believe that elite athletics is not a guarantee for their future and prefer to dedicate their time to finishing a university degree.
