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former d1 coach wrote:
Can someone explain this to me? Does she need a workout to get ready for NCAAs or something??
Today at the Big 12 meet, running in a race where 10 of the 13 entrants would make the final and running in heat 2 of 2 after she saw the first heat was won in 4:49, Jane Hedengren went out and ran 4:31 today at Big 12s, winning her heat by 19 seconds. Why?
Wild.
PS. And can sometime tell me how in a major P4 conferences, there are only 13 entrants in a mile? Is there some ridiculous qualifying standards or has college track been totally hollowed out. If you can't score in a mega conference and make NCAAs, no point in having you on the team.
Well she got an additional 19 seconds of rest by finishing 19 seconds ahead of her competition. This will provide .00000000000000000000000000019 of a benefit in the finals for her.
How she rolls. She won the 3k final by 10 seconds, set a meet record. She did lose the mile in the final, but since the winner ran only a second slower than Jane's PR and Jane already run the 3k, my guess is that her mile heat didn't have too much to do with the result. It didn't help that she ran fast than required, but that was unlikely to have been the major effect.
JohnR wrote:
How she rolls. She won the 3k final by 10 seconds, set a meet record. She did lose the mile in the final, but since the winner ran only a second slower than Jane's PR and Jane already run the 3k, my guess is that her mile heat didn't have too much to do with the result. It didn't help that she ran fast than required, but that was unlikely to have been the major effect.
Has she been asked why she ran it that fast? Maybe it had an intentional training purpose. It could have served as a VO2max workout, or a simulation of what a tactically-paced race would feel like at nationals.
It was faster than her PR after conversion. That means it was her top mile effort of her lifetime. She wasn't winning fresh.
Sweet Jane is a rock and roll animal.
As already stated, a 4:31 isn't an all-out effort for someone who has run 4:22. It was a comfortably hard effort, she could do that every day of the week. She made it so there was zero chance she'd get outkicked in a slow race while not going to the well.
This is a dry run of NCAAs for her, whether a prep for a bunch of races in a short time or a 5000m and doubling back. She ran the 3k/mile/mile.
Stanford Card wrote:
Sweet Jane is a rock and roll animal.
So many great songs about Jane.