Koneko wrote:
0/10 wrote:
So let me get this straight. You’re saying Tuohy will crash( in large part) due to her “lack of foot speed....”. Then you say Lane will end up being “the truely competitive one.” You do realize that Lane has far, far slower foot speed than Tuohy. Her mile pr, 4:47, is 15 seconds slower and Lane would have hardly been top 7 at the Cali State meet in the 16, let alone top 7- all time 1500/mile combined.
Let’s remember that Tuohy has NEVER been injured, has improved every season, and has fantastic form. Your post is a nice laugh though. Thanks for bestowing upon us your great wisdom that a girl who has run 4:33 solo in 95 degree heat with high humidity has no foot speed and that’s going to contribute to her to her “crashing hard” in the next few years. But oh wait, Lane, who was injured this year and didn’t run at her state meet, and with that blistering 4:47 mile Pr, is obviously going to be the future....
A massive aerobic base in high school WILL cause burn-out, injury, and future crashing.
Want to build a great distance runner? High school focus should be on varied events (400 - 5000), regular in-season racing (no "chasing records"), occasional triple-jumping, cross-training like swimming and biking, and SENSIBLE mileage.
These are irrefutable FACTS.
Let’s address this point by point.
1). Looks like Tuohy ran every event from the 600-5000 this year, plus a couple 4x4’s.
2). Why no “chasing records?” Are you suggesting Tuohy should never push herself and just jog every race? Are you implying we should get rid of highschool competition in the US because people “may get burned out?” What makes the effort from the girl who got 2nd 16 seconds back different from the effort Tuohy put out there?
3). Triple Jumping for distance runners???? Is this a fk*n joke??,? Can you imagine Eluid Kipchoge or Mary Keitant triple jumping to get better at running? Yeah, that triple jump really makes better runners!
4). Tuohy swims, bikes, and does lots of core work( obviously) so sounds like she’s right on there.
5) I didn’t realize 35-40 mpw MAX was a “MASSIVE AEROBIC BASE.” You must follow the 1990s training plan. We had lots of people running low mileage then. We did really great on the world scene! I think we may have had a year someone made a WC or Olympic final!
Man, the haters are really failing miserably today. From the guy who said Tuohy would fail because she had little foot speed, then the next sentence later said Lane, a girl whose 800 Pr pace is slower than Tuohy’s mile pace, would be “the most competitive,” to this idiot suggesting that the triple jump would make great runners, we’ve had some real winners today...