Just an expression. Today. From everything I have seen she is trying to avoid overtraining to avoid wearing down. To me that suggests that she will have better form in a few weeks as her training kicks in. But you are coming in somewhat less trained, then at some point going full bore with Valby was not worth it.
I disagree on this one.
It was worth it.
Come out, “training through” this race, and see where you are at.
She sees where she is at with her 70+ mile weeks with no tapering.
Valby is better at the moment, she knows that now.
Now adjust.
Think how undertrained Valby is compared to her potential! With minimal running last outdoor season she easily beat Tuohy. Now she's healthy and dominant but still many MPW less than her competitors. Very high ceiling and she's just starting to be healthy.
Come out, “training through” this race, and see where you are at.
She sees where she is at with her 70+ mile weeks with no tapering.
Valby is better at the moment, she knows that now.
Now adjust.
Think how undertrained Valby is compared to her potential! With minimal running last outdoor season she easily beat Tuohy. Now she's healthy and dominant but still many MPW less than her competitors. Very high ceiling and she's just starting to be healthy.
there is a reason she does not do mileage. She does a ton of work on eliiptical or whatever. It seems to work....but she has been injured the last 2 indoors seasons.
Think how undertrained Valby is compared to her potential! With minimal running last outdoor season she easily beat Tuohy. Now she's healthy and dominant but still many MPW less than her competitors. Very high ceiling and she's just starting to be healthy.
there is a reason she does not do mileage. She does a ton of work on eliiptical or whatever. It seems to work....but she has been injured the last 2 indoors seasons.
Valby’s training has inspired now the second fastest high school girl in the country, just a sophomore, Leachman, who after struggling with injury last year, started following Valby’s high-volume (with some intensity) cross-training approach.
there is a reason she does not do mileage. She does a ton of work on eliiptical or whatever. It seems to work....but she has been injured the last 2 indoors seasons.
Valby’s training has inspired now the second fastest high school girl in the country, just a sophomore, Leachman, who after struggling with injury last year, started following Valby’s high-volume (with some intensity) cross-training approach.
And Leachman’s performances this season are somewhat surprising, considering her in un-imposing physicality compared to Hedengren or Englehardt (although Leachman has stout legs).
Congrats to both Valby and NAU! We now have a true rivalry going into Nationals - much more fun.
Florida only ran 4 of their 5, as Mazza-Downie sat out.
Nau looking really good and deep thru 7, good enough even to beat a full strength nc st.
Pack can be very excited about the performance of Stevens and Hartman. They now have a solid 6 if Bush and Tynnismaa join. Gapes even ran quite well to lay claim to #7.
CU looks to be in trouble unless some cavalry shows up.
Agree that a sharper Touhy will show at nats, making for a better duel. Both Valby and Tuohy ran course prs in the slop, so Valby's performance was no joke.
Makes you wonder...how good of a coach was solinsky actually?
I don’t follow. The sport may have lost Valby if he hadn’t inspired (demanded?) her to keep going. His Badger training may have contributed to her getting injured in the first place, but out of that experience came forth something incredible bolstering new training theory.
LetsRun is great. Every time there's hyped matchup there's trash talk on both sides, then the fans of the loser come up with mitigating circumstances. Injury, sick, training through, deliberately held back, tempo run...It never fails.
No. Valby lost XC nationals last year and nobody claimed she was injured or sick. Tuohy fans make up every excuse possible when Tuohy loses though.
It’s not an “excuse”.
It’s reality. She’s training through.
But any distance runner knows you set up your excuses in advance. That way you have a built in excuse if they run bad, or if they run good you can say just think of what they would run if......
It is an explanation that makes perfect sense. Her coach said flat out in an article that she wore down by outdoor last season (we all saw it) by peaking for too long and that they wanted to avoid that. There is a reason why Tuohy started training later this season and why initially Tuohy's first race was going to be at ACC. Guess we will find out.
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