Wouldn't the point be that she was able to break the outdoor record 2 days after winning the 10000m without the fatigue that would normally be expected? Fatigue and being tired btw are not equivalent.
I just noticed that Valby's left foot recovers all the ways up in a sort of "buttkick" type form, while her right foot has a significantly lower recovery position. Any experts have anything to say about that possibly being a cause of issues?
Not an expert, but an athlete myself. I notice often that lots of track runners have a slightly different gait on their left versus right. I think this happens because your right leg has to turnover faster when you run on the curve. So if a runner runs curves a lot, their right leg has to become much faster.
I think it's more about a difference in coordination between the two legs -- I'm very left handed and left footed and I've always found my push off is just a little bit cleaner and harder off my left foot than the right one, although it's barely noticeable.
I just noticed that Valby's left foot recovers all the ways up in a sort of "buttkick" type form, while her right foot has a significantly lower recovery position. Any experts have anything to say about that possibly being a cause of issues?
Not an expert, but an athlete myself. I notice often that lots of track runners have a slightly different gait on their left versus right. I think this happens because your right leg has to turnover faster when you run on the curve. So if a runner runs curves a lot, their right leg has to become much faster.
I don’t discount at all that what we are seeing may be related to the wrenching torque of the track, but “right leg becoming faster” is a poor description of what we are seeing.
Compared to the right leg, her left leg is recoiling faster and more smoothly, with the left foot coming higher up, and the left knee is driving forward slightly higher. This movement pattern is in conjunction with her left arm coming up higher and closer to the chest, than the right arm.
They have done a tremendous job on her form to bring her this far. I’m hoping I’m not seeing something that will have consequences downstream.
As a minimum, they should be running some reps clockwise on the track. There is obviously more that could be said if we actually knew something from her team.
Before I sign off, this board is a joke. Every time the wagons have to circle. Valby did something that should have immediately raised serious red flags, soloing to the 5000m record two days after winning the 10000m, showing unnatural powers of recovery. It is brazen. Yet here it is like, "make sense to me". Lollll.
Not an expert, but an athlete myself. I notice often that lots of track runners have a slightly different gait on their left versus right. I think this happens because your right leg has to turnover faster when you run on the curve. So if a runner runs curves a lot, their right leg has to become much faster.
I don’t discount at all that what we are seeing may be related to the wrenching torque of the track, but “right leg becoming faster” is a poor description of what we are seeing.
Compared to the right leg, her left leg is recoiling faster and more smoothly, with the left foot coming higher up, and the left knee is driving forward slightly higher. This movement pattern is in conjunction with her left arm coming up higher and closer to the chest, than the right arm.
They have done a tremendous job on her form to bring her this far. I’m hoping I’m not seeing something that will have consequences downstream.
As a minimum, they should be running some reps clockwise on the track. There is obviously more that could be said if we actually knew something from her team.
Note, I’m not referring to her form in the last 400m of a PB effort, as observed in the following reel, in which case, it looks like her feet hurt, but she is muscling through with her upper body strength:
. Valby did something that should have immediately raised serious red flags, soloing to the 5000m record two days after winning the 10000m, showing unnatural powers of recovery. It is brazen. Yet here it is like, "make sense to me". Lollll.
“Amy Skieresz remains the only NCAA female to ever accomplish the outdoor 5000m/10000m double twice. Her margins of victory during her 10000m victories, 63.59 seconds in 1997 and 62.64 seconds in 1998, are the largest in NCAA history of any event including cross country.[4]
“Ahead of what was to be the last race of her collegiate career, Skieresz was suffering pain in her right thigh. She decided to compete in the NCAA Cross Country Championships despite the issue and finished runner-up for the third time. In doing so, she became the only runner, male or female, to ever finish in the top-2 at the NCAA Cross Country Championships four times. A few weeks later, doctors diagnosed her injury as a benign tumor in her thigh. She decided to forgo the remainder of her collegiate eligibility and begin preparations for the 2000 Olympic Trials.[5]
“Skieresz only lost four races in her entire collegiate career, three of which were runner-up finishes at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.[6]”
(from Wikipedia)
Note , Skieresz, Lisa Uhl, North Carolina State's Betty Jo Springs ('83) and Wisconsin's Stephanie Herbst ('86) – also have swept the distance races at the national meet, without ‘super shoes’.
The time correction by 2 tenths of a second was bull. She ran fast enough to qualify for the Olympics. Regardless this outdoor meet was very exciting to watch and the Arkansas quad brought their A game and were untouchable in the 400M and 400 relay. Congrats to an awesome meet to watch.
The time correction by 2 tenths of a second was bull. She ran fast enough to qualify for the Olympics. .
According to the broadcast, you are correct. Per the attached image captured from the broadcast, the on-screen times when Valby crossed the finish line were:
The time correction by 2 tenths of a second was bull. She ran fast enough to qualify for the Olympics. .
According to the broadcast, you are correct. Per the attached image captured from the broadcast, the on-screen times when Valby crossed the finish line were:
14:51.98
14:52.0 .
But I don’t understand the “time correction”. Does that mean they always add 0.2sec to the finishing time?
The time correction by 2 tenths of a second was bull. She ran fast enough to qualify for the Olympics. .
According to the broadcast, you are correct. Per the attached image captured from the broadcast, the on-screen times when Valby crossed the finish line were:
