Tuohy attends NC State you know.
Tuohy attends NC State you know.
Hobby1jogger wrote:
Ms Valby is brilliant because she's eager to learn. But from the posts I get the impression she's performing independently. Her tangent racing should have been discovered and resolved by her coach long before a championship race. It's good to see she has a sense of humor about the criticism and made a post about it. Shows she has class and trying to resolve her issue. But during the race I never saw any of her teammates after the start. The season is long enough where her teammates should have been coached to rally around her and support her best they could for finals even if they were only being used as rabbits. If you're not the best, then support your teammate to be their best. Know your roles.. Coaching helps you perform at your best. It doesn't matter how much you know everyone (even a coach) would benefit from coaching. Ryan Hall was at best when he had a coach and now he's coaching his wife Sara. Sara has been performing excellent during the marathon but part of that is buying into coaching. I have not witnessed Valby's teammates supporting her during the race, and coach has to be aware that lher tangent problem should have been discovered and resolved early in her training before a championship race. She has greater potential and would benefit from good coaching and team support. I really hope some improvements in coaching takes place for her and the team.. Ms Valby is brilliant for being eager to learn how to improve her racing efforts and strategies. She's brilliant for being able to perform so well independently.
So "brilliant" is eager to learn? That would mean that most in the field were also "brilliant".
I guarantee if you polled all of the runners, only about 25% would know what you are talking about.
There are many winners and losers in the race besides the actual winner. Most posters Calimesa that Tuohy won due to being the superior runner regardless of tactics and tangents. Now youvare claiming that she won due to better tactics which insinuates that Valby is faster but ran a poor race. I think you're correct. Valby is the more talented runner but Tuohy races smarter. Valby will be similar to Gidey in paced races. I expect that she will have a much faster lifetime PR than Tuohy but Tuohy will beat her in sit and kick races.
Florida Cone wrote:
She doesn't need to learn tangents, basic common sense should be enough.
Back in the day, when I used to race, I initially didn’t know about running tangents. But I did have common sense. That’s why I started training a treadmill, to practice my tangent running.
The girl barely runs and doesn’t know what a tangent is. She’s the hero I need right now.
smarter it wrote:
I guarantee if you polled all of the runners, only about 25% would know what you are talking about.
But they know how to run in a straight line or at least follow the shortest route.
smarter it wrote:
There are many winners and losers in the race besides the actual winner. Most posters Calimesa that Tuohy won due to being the superior runner regardless of tactics and tangents. Now youvare claiming that she won due to better tactics which insinuates that Valby is faster but ran a poor race. I think you're correct. Valby is the more talented runner but Tuohy races smarter. Valby will be similar to Gidey in paced races. I expect that she will have a much faster lifetime PR than Tuohy but Tuohy will beat her in sit and kick races.
You have chosen the wrong user name. I didn't say Valby lost because she adopted the wrong tactics. She was beaten by a better runner. But she didn't exactly show she was smart in how she raced - as the subject of this thread observes.
and still she wont win a title
What fascinates me is the combo of near perfect execution of an even pacing strategy that gives her the best chance of finishing as fast as her body permits and the much noted failures of tangent running and how-much-left knowledge. It's as if she has a visual perception learning disability, and is unable to visually imagine the course (it seems likely that every runner in the race spent a decent fraction of the preceding week running the race in their minds) either in advance or real time. As a former MIT math major who 'goes-stupid' during marathons to the point of having trouble with arithmetic, this feels more like an inborn inability, just because I always retained my ability to run tangents and know where I was on the course under high stress situations of winning a close race and barely qualifying for OTM. Of course it could be just another example of the wide variety of human traits. I'm thankful my stupidity was never recorded and studied publicly.
We all still remember how butt hurt you were when this happened earlier this year.
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