Who is Parker Valby's coach?

Maybe, but the marathon distance is about equal to her mpw. Of course she’s as mentally tough as anyone, but it won’t help if she can’t physically tolerate running the longer road races.

I didn’t mean any time soon. I meant in the future and also if she can stay healthy for maybe two years in a row and accumulate more volume. In terms of right now, you are correct. I was looking at the future.

Dahl, you copied and pasted your post above from the exact post you’ve made in multiple other threads.

As others have already replied to you in the other threads, you are just plain wrong here. Nearly every pro is aware of Letsrun, and many of them have posted on here throughout the last several years. Valby has previously stated that she indeed is aware of the Letsrun message board, and she in fact has a negative opinion of it.

Look at this creepy guy from the chat room during the race. Sounds like Dahl.

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I can’t see her staying healthy enough to run marathon mileage. Today’s race was very good considering she’s only been training for a couple of months after the navicular fracture.

For her it would probably be an atypical buildup with cross training and biking. She seems fine as long as most of the cardio isn’t actually on the ground itself.

Nobody on this board runs or is involved in running in any capacity. You can tell by the stupid comments they make here. Very few people here ever ran, even just recreationally. Just last night a guy posted about how runners dont need cushioning in their shoes for recovery days.

This site is a fan site. Its not for actual runners.

Hi, Barrett. Make a new profile today and repost the same crap you posted under 430miler? Yep

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Dahl?

What are you babbling about ya bube?

We have the answer. Will Palmer.

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2025/11/parker-valby-is-on-the-comeback-trail-and-eyeing-the-us-cross-country-championships-under-a-new-old-coach/

It never seemed a good fit with coach, team, or place, all awkward with her from the start, but for injury management I don't know that Palmer was any better.

Good news from that interview that she's considering World xc, which fits, it being in Tallahassee.

That’s great. She really thrived under Palmer down at Florida so it makes sense. My opinion is if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And I think she raced great this morning. In contention for the win until 300 to go. Not too shabby for your first race back after over 200 days.

I for one believe that American distance running is better when PV is healthy and competing. A class act who is a great interview and can be entertaining and hilarious. Too many of the pros can be overly cerebral and boring. Parker just says whatever she thinks. It’s refreshing.

In terms of the future, if she can stay healthy and do what works under Palmer, she will obliterate her PRs. She is Monson 2.0. Can’t win a 200m shuttle race against a J.V. soccer player, but PV is as strong as an ox and as tough and gritty as a Navy Seal. Just two consecutive healthy training years, and she’s 14:15 and 29:20. Heard it here first.

I don’t think she missed any significant time out under Palmer. The serious injuries where she missed a good deal of time at Florida were before, and then under Chris Solinsky.

In terms of the initial decision to test the waters under Coogan, I don’t think that she should be blamed for trying something new, even though it clearly didn’t work. New Balance probably convinced her that she needed to be coached by Coogan to improve as a medal contender, and she believed them. Common rookie mistake to leave what worked thinking the experienced pro coach is going to turn you into a medal threat. Look no further than Fisher and Hocker. Both found that their HS coaches were better for them. Webb ran way better with Rasko then he ever did with anyone else.

The problem with Coogan and other pro coaches like for instance Schumacher, is that they often try a one size fits all qualitative approach to hammer these workouts regardless of how the rookie might respond to them. About a year ago when Valby was hammering those grass intervals with MaClean and company in October, I was nervous this was going to be too much regular intensity for PV too soon, and I was dead right.

I don’t believe she was ever injured under Palmer.

I think there was an injury hiccup at one point under him, but she wasn’t out long and didn’t miss too many races that season.