I dont get it wrote:
I’m not sure why people think tuohy would lose to Valby if she had run the SEC course/on a track.
She’s run 15:14/4:06. I’m thinking if she gets paced evenly at Boston, she could go 14:55. She backed off at the end of the race too.
Another question, why did valby show her cards all season when she could’ve held back, just doing what she could to win, like tuohy, and then drop the hammer at 1k/mile at NCAAs? More people would’ve gone with her and blown up.
Tuohy( and I guess Chmiel too) just did whatever she needed to to win. We didn’t know where the ceiling was.
I guess you before the race you could’ve argued well maybe Parker wasn’t going all out, but I think yesterday proved she was.
You ask a good question, and I have to believe the answer is at least partly that she really has only been running at this level for 12 months, and with some interruptions in that time. So not really a lot of time to be working on refining strategies, as the NC St ladies have been doing. Combined with how she answered some questions it is clear she is very new to this thing "running". She does seem to be where Tuohy was as a hs sophomore - but there are opponents with the same ability and better tactical skills. Not really having any teammates to practice with can't help either - recall the NC St video with the group of 5 I think doing the track session together. I think Tuohy benefitted tremendously from getting thrown in with Henes and Steelman as an out of shape freshman. But one would think Valby's coach would start working on this stuff pretty quickly.