You are feeling deeply emasculated because after putting in 100-mile weeks with your crappy D2 team, a teenage girl could crush your best college XC race in a tempo effort.
Expressing an unpopular opinion isn't trolling. If you want to explain how running 19:06 in a prelim is a good idea when nobody else was under 19:45, I'm willing to listen.
Except you're not willing to listen but repeating the same tropes. If this is the last "hard" effort she has before Nats then she has 7 days to recover. This is NOT a prelim in the sense of an ordinary meet where you're next round is the following day or 2 days. She also ran her SLOWEST race of the year so far while likely hitting her PEAK form of the season suggesting she may not have run ALL OUT as you simply assume based on her winning margin. She will both be unfazed by this performance and likely dominate Nationals and then I'll bump this. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Today was her largest margin over Riley Chamberlain this season. If Jane wasn't running hard, what was Riley doing?
LACCTiC just rated the performance at 14:48. Crazy fast, but not her fastest this season. I feel like she will be fine...she can have a bad race next weekend and still win.
Regional races are nothing more than prelims. Experienced runners like Pamela Kosgei know the goal is to advance with as little effort as possible. Kosgei held back because she was in a secure position and she knew her team was likely to qualify for nattys.
Jane Hedengren made the typical freshman mistake of running hard in a prelim. No reason to run as hard as she did. Completely unnecessary. She will probably pay for this mistake at natty next weekend.
LACCTiC just rated the performance at 14:48. Crazy fast, but not her fastest this season. I feel like she will be fine...she can have a bad race next weekend and still win.
I know. I just hate to see young people with talent make foolish mistakes. She'll learn from this experience.
Or you will
No he won't. If she wins, he will disappear forever and if she loses he will hold up this regional race up as the ONLY reason she lost. Typical poor lrc troll.
No he won't. If she wins, he will disappear forever and if she loses he will hold up this regional race up as the ONLY reason she lost. Typical poor lrc troll.
You have me all wrong. I want Jane to win. I just fear she hurt her chances today by running too hard.
Except you're not willing to listen but repeating the same tropes. If this is the last "hard" effort she has before Nats then she has 7 days to recover. This is NOT a prelim in the sense of an ordinary meet where you're next round is the following day or 2 days. She also ran her SLOWEST race of the year so far while likely hitting her PEAK form of the season suggesting she may not have run ALL OUT as you simply assume based on her winning margin. She will both be unfazed by this performance and likely dominate Nationals and then I'll bump this. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Today was her largest margin over Riley Chamberlain this season. If Jane wasn't running hard, what was Riley doing?
Largest margin by :00.6 seconds. Wow that's such a meaningful observation. Riley's performance actually has no relevance to Jane's. But you're moving the goal posts. You claimed Jane ran TOO hard, now you're only providing evidence to suggest she ran hard. We don't care that she ran hard for 6k eights days before another hard effort. She is an elite athlete and can handle two hard days that far apart. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Regional races are nothing more than prelims. Experienced runners like Pamela Kosgei know the goal is to advance with as little effort as possible. Kosgei held back because she was in a secure position and she knew her team was likely to qualify for nattys.
Jane Hedengren made the typical freshman mistake of running hard in a prelim. No reason to run as hard as she did. Completely unnecessary. She will probably pay for this mistake at natty next weekend.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
You are unregistered, as am I.
But...I don't make outlandish statements and hope to be right so I can come back and post, I told ya so. She will win and you will pick up another handle as you disappear into oblivion. Loser.
Today was her largest margin over Riley Chamberlain this season. If Jane wasn't running hard, what was Riley doing?
Largest margin by :00.6 seconds. Wow that's such a meaningful observation. Riley's performance actually has no relevance to Jane's. But you're moving the goal posts. You claimed Jane ran TOO hard, now you're only providing evidence to suggest she ran hard. We don't care that she ran hard for 6k eights days before another hard effort. She is an elite athlete and can handle two hard days that far apart. Don't say I didn't warn you.
How can Riley's performance have no relevance to Jane's? Aren't they teammates?
I'm not moving the goal posts. I opened this thread by writing "the goal is to advance with as little effort as possible." Too hard in a prelim is running faster than necessary to advance. Jane ran 40 seconds faster than she had to. That's too hard.
No he won't. If she wins, he will disappear forever and if she loses he will hold up this regional race up as the ONLY reason she lost. Typical poor lrc troll.
You have me all wrong. I want Jane to win. I just fear she hurt her chances today by running too hard.
No, I understand you perfectly - pretty simple really.
LACCTiC just rated the performance at 14:48. Crazy fast, but not her fastest this season. I feel like she will be fine...she can have a bad race next weekend and still win.
Agreed. She left at least 20 seconds in the tank. Sub 18 at the nationals is still on the table.