JANE HEDENGEN: How many CR & AR will she ANNIHILATE❓

VIPAM wrote:

Snowflake

I am currently being ridiculed on this thread and will be some more before it comes to past. If Jane Hedengren stays healthy in the next few years hold multiple CR and AR. Just let her keep putting in the mileage and stay healthy, her talent will allow her to continually develop her endurance to the level of the top Africans.

lmb wrote:

It's time for her to move to the marathon!

VIPAM wrote:

mash unit wrote:

If we move down to steeple, 2 mile and 1 mile and equivalent, only Addy Wiley (indoor), Elise Cranny, Angelina Napoleon and again Cain from among 40-50 athletes have made US teams.

Amazingly, in the whole record list, only Tuohy has won an ncaa title. (Wiley won NAIA).

Assuming all healthy, someone could run 14:40 at 5000 and still not get a team spot behind Houlihan, Cranny, Schweizer, Kelati, Andrews, Monson, Purrier and Valby.

Your thoughts are bold, will be fun to follow.

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Hundreds of poster's thought I was off bas about Kenenisa Bekele 20 years ago. Jane Hedengen is a similar talent, if she can just stay healthy she will make U.S. teams especially in 2027 and 2028.

VIPAM wrote:

Snowflake

I am currently being ridiculed on this thread and will be some more before it comes to past. If Jane Hedengren stays healthy in the next few years hold multiple CR and AR. Just let her keep putting in the mileage and stay healthy, her talent will allow her to continually develop her endurance to the level of the top Africans.

VIPAM wrote:

mash unit wrote:

If we move down to steeple, 2 mile and 1 mile and equivalent, only Addy Wiley (indoor), Elise Cranny, Angelina Napoleon and again Cain from among 40-50 athletes have made US teams.

Amazingly, in the whole record list, only Tuohy has won an ncaa title. (Wiley won NAIA).

Assuming all healthy, someone could run 14:40 at 5000 and still not get a team spot behind Houlihan, Cranny, Schweizer, Kelati, Andrews, Monson, Purrier and Valby.

Your thoughts are bold, will be fun to follow.

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Hundreds of poster's thought I was off bas about Kenenisa Bekele 20 years ago. Jane Hedengen is a similar talent, if she can just stay healthy she will make U.S. teams especially in 2027 and 2028.

Foolmeonce wrote:

VIPAM wrote:

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Hundreds of poster's thought I was off bas about Kenenisa Bekele 20 years ago. Jane Hedengen is a similar talent, if she can just stay healthy she will make U.S. teams especially in 2027 and 2028.

Hundreds of posters also think you are a Fool - and they aren’t wrong….

Mopped wrote:

VIPAM wrote:

Snowflake

I am currently being ridiculed on this thread and will be some more before it comes to past. If Jane Hedengren stays healthy in the next few years hold multiple CR and AR. Just let her keep putting in the mileage and stay healthy, her talent will allow her to continually develop her endurance to the level of the top Africans.

Part of the issue is a runner shows great potential and you start predicting great things. You do it so often that once in awhile you are correct, and then you act like you are Nostradamus or something. People find it annoying.

VIPAM wrote:

Break aways have happened more than you think, it's just the current crop of athletes lost the courage to try but:

John Ngugi did in the Olympic 5000m

Hicham did it in the Olympic 1500m

Samuel Wanjiru did it in the Olympic Marathon

Joan Benoit did it in the Olympic Marathon

Almaz Ayana did it in the Olympic 10000

and definitely others, so if an athlete is willing & able to drop a fast enough spilt they can break away and hold onto to WIN or medal 🏅🥇

VIPAM wrote:

The other issue wrote:

Comparing her to those you have is simply stupid. She's never going to be at that level and probably not even within the US. College yes. Beyond that very unlikely barring more demonstration of a solid close.

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To all the posters limiting Jane's potential in her career. In 2024 if any of us was asked would an American high school girl:

run a 4:23 mile, 8:40.0 3000m, 9:17 two mile, and 5000m in 14:57.9 EVERYONE would have said NO WAY, never gonna happen

OR

a 16 yr old American would run 1:42.2 in the 800m many would have her their life saving it wouldn't happen.

POV: never say never in T & F, even if it's just a 1% chance of it happening

VIPAM wrote:

How about this noble idea on a running message board for discussing anything running, don't click on threads you don't agree with or the author of such threads. How about letting people SENSIBLY discuss what they won't and you don't have to click that thread❗

IF I or anyone want to discuss Jane's potential it has nothing to do with you, simply bypass those threads 😳.

007run wrote:

VIPAM wrote:

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Hundreds of poster's thought I was off bas about Kenenisa Bekele 20 years ago. Jane Hedengen is a similar talent, if she can just stay healthy she will make U.S. teams especially in 2027 and 2028.

Vipam, the reason you get flamed and downvoted so often on here is that historically, for the past 20 years one can say, you have desperately tried to reclaim the former glory of your Bekele post by using the same tired prediction formula on every breakout star of the day, ie, Brazier, Athing Mu, Hedegren, etc. You're not some sort of prediction savant when you just throw everything and the kitchen sink at the wall just to see what sticks. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.