Can KT Tuohy frontrun her way to a 1500 Championship? And then Double back for a 5k Title?

Haven’t listened to Kemboi’s post-race interview yet, but someone said she was waiting for Chelengat to kick before she finally decided to go.

Can someone explain how the high school and college record holder in the mile is by far the slowest off the line in the 1500 m... Out of like 30 or 40 runners...

I made the title to this thread half jokingly... but I'm amazed that every preliminary round she has been noticeably lagging in the back, the very last one, for the first 200 meters...

Seriously what's the deal... like is this a real legitimate weakness... or is she just kind of playing it safe for the openings...

Anyway I think her only chance is to absolutely bust out off the start and grab the lead and just go for it all...

Or else bust out and get the rail in second and third and then go with 800 m...

I don't know why but I O'Sullivan suddenly looks like an incredible kicker after she was a really mediocre runner for the most of the season... She now looks like she could run a 404 potentially...

I hate to say it but I think tuohy could potentially finish like 5th through 8th in this race... I could see a bunch of girls from heat number two also out kicking her...

Despite what EZRUN insisted Tuohy's flat out speed is not that great, and especially she does not seem to have a burst. But you don't need to go the front in the first 100, by 800 will do if pace is fast and if it isnt it will be easy to get there earlier.

“Deceptive”, in that it doesn’t look smooth, but rather, kind of jerky in the upper-body motion, and kind of a choppy stride, but it seems to work in covering ground fast.

And then look at the 60 sec mark; O’Sullivan is cruising in, looks over her right shoulder and noticed Tuohy and others closing, so she quickly shifts to another gear to burst away from them.

It might just be inexperience at the distance. The 1500 is a crowded track with everyone jostling for position.

She is not going to win running a 4:09 pace and kicking with 200m to go. What I think people have in mind is a race in the 4:05-06 range, and unless she is worn out by the past year I see no reason why she cannot run that while saving something for the 5000m. But she was not trying to run that type of time in the semi, and was content to kick in the last lap. Hopefully in the finals she sets out to run a faster race and is feeling good.

Did she win the semifinal trophy?

She’s looking ‘heavy’ and buffed, but sluggish

. Did they overdo her program prepping for this meet? Because it’s not working in this heat.

I commented earlier that I thought she seemed stressed during the press conference. Like, maybe something is off?

In some prior races she was pretty fast off the line, and at Wake Forest (47.7). In this situation she might also be worried about the box, because that's game over.

Everyone pretty much agrees she needs to get out hard and go for it. Seems like she is in atleast 4:08, 4:07 shape right now, but maybe not quite as sharp as indoors from what I am seeing so far. So, it might be harder to run away. I hope she is really in 4:05 shape because 4:08 or slower may not be enough to drop all the kickers

Without Barnett there she will have to push it alone in the final. But after today's race I can't imagine her running it tactically unless she just isn't feeling good.

Huh? Was she supposed to go out and run 4:06 in this semi? At the end of the day she qualified rather easily, albeit avoiding getting knocked over.

This time of year fatigue sets in. So we will see.

Not sure why you keep saying inexperience that this distance... She's the most experienced runner in this field at this distance! She's run this event since 7th grade at least 30 times if not 40... She's running about 10 times alone in college... I mean yeah she hasn't been as solely focused on this distance as maybe some of the runners but she's certainly not inexperienced that this distance and she was pretty much a mile specialist when she started running and has run this distance dozens of times

Maybe. She said she was stressed out at Soundrunning, but she got the record anyway. Sometimes life intrudes.

If you count the mile, 1600, 1500 as basically the same distance she's probably run this distance 75 times in her career... I almost guarantee the most out of any one in the field

I only saw the flotrak recording of that press conference and had extreme difficulty in understanding anything being said because of the poor audio. Did you come across a better recording, or maybe they went back and edited it?

The University of Texas channel’s recording of the coach’s press conference was fine quality.

True, but those high school races were not nearly as intense. Even last year in the ACC prelim she found herself boxed in and had to visibly manuever to get out of it. Just trying to figure out why she was dead last at the first turn.

I do that all the time because ppl go out too fast and it gets crowded.

She will win this thing easily on Saturday. Probably leaves them all behind with 650m to go, especially that clown O'sullivan

She definitely needs to gap O'Sullivan. She runs a bit like her mother.

Tuohy catches a break and will start near outside in 1500 final (position 10)

This is the one, I think it was edited. You do have to turn up the volume, quality is not the best.