PARKER VALBY BREAKS HER OWN COLLEGIATE RECORD IN A CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 14:52

I was able to watch the replay and after she finished I froze it on her firm, yet supple thighs (just kidding) and I do believe those are cupping marks. It looks like they overlapped them to create total coverage and make sure every inch of the targeted muscle area is treated. If you watch swimming you'll often see this on their upper bodies, usually for swimmers in the shoulders and back.

There are also different shapes and sizes of the cups. That's my only knowledge of it, I spoke to a woman at the gym who does it and she said it works but is expensive and not covered by insurance.

Either she was doing low volume before and added a lot, or she is taking performance enhancing supplements. I'd wager on the latter.

She put on a show. We were entertained.

Use your brain. A 5k lasts 15 minutes vs elliptical that lasts much longer than that, which means that a runner would be much less sweaty when running only 15 minutes.

Plus when someone is running the air is moving over them vs elliptical when the person is stationary. How come you aren't smart enough to figure that out without me explaining that to you?

You sure do come up with some stupid posts.

She said it was a 6 or 7 effort. So a 10 effort would be what, 14:30? From the arc trainer? Lol. It's sus.

Taking PEDs out of the discussion for now, I think as more time goes on, we’ll see a handful of universities and even some pros adopt some of these methods of training especially injury prone athletes. Yes, the super spikes have significantly dropped times across the board, but I think now we’re seeing more coaches take the recovery aspect of training more seriously. For this particular method of training, we’re only seeing a few years of it in play and it will be interesting to see if it translates to the world class level and possibly extend athlete’s careers.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Parker Valby just because she typically comes off kind of like a dingbat or plays this whole charade of like “Silly me, I just ARC train because I guess it works and I guess sub 15 is fast!?” However, it takes a lot of confidence to believe in this particular sort of training and execute it.

Her mitochondria is off the charts from 3 hrs a day of cross training. Gotta respect it

Yes. Monson and Schweizer made same drop at about same age. Coburn and Frerichs made even larger jumps. It is typical of elite American women.

Also she’s just a gamer. Some people work this hard and just can’t race. She seems to crave the fire of battle. Not the case with every athlete/runner even at the ncaa meet. Likely adds a lot to her abilitie i.e. that bc kid in the mile

Part of being a gamer is not being a trainer. She’s almost always going into races fresh and that sure helps with having that mental edge.

A lot of rationalizations for why it works on this thread. She is not mentally tougher than all of her competitors, the whole NCAA, or more of a gamer. Just listen to her interviews. She is just fitter than everyone else. How she got there, that is the question.

Looked like fascia scraping marks. Those'll bruise up like crazy

She is tougher. She is in a zone during the race. Look at her eyes when she is focused. She could take have taken Chuck Norris out during the last 1200 of that race.

Yep, it's very easy to be drenched in sweat and have a high HR on the elliptical.

Nailed it. Let’s see what happens in the coming years.

Unfortunately, the world is also becoming more corrupt. I also wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing NCAA drug busts in the coming years. That will spell the end of the ‘mainly drug free NCAA track’. NIL and the $$ of scholarships (inflation, inflation..costs of degrees have grown staggeringly in the past 30 years), and the impoverishment of middle America means that more people will be more desperate. Doping starts to seem more attractive as the benefits outweigh the risks by some way. Desperate people do desperate things. Add in the internet, easy availability of drugs etc (the internet and ease of distribution is a phenomenon only seen in the past 15 years really).
It’ll be a shame, but I fully expect it.

That would be pathetic. She is 52s slower than the world record (more than 10s per Km). 14:52.79 is exactly Gidey’s half marathon pace (1:02:52).

Gidey could run that. Then again. Then again. Then again. Then run a further 1.1km go good measure.

This is also like saying that a 13:25 guy is sus

Not sus.

14:52 is pretty slow in 2024.

No its not. Sub 14:52 is the Olympic standard. She ran 7th fastest in the world this season, #3 in the US.

I remember 2022. She missed indoor due to injury, came back late in the outdoor season, a lost soundly to Chelangat at sec. But within a few weeks at nationals, supposedly coming off injury, she was stretching the whole field and seemed shocked that someone could beat her. That was a major jump in form in a couple of weeks that cannot be explained by "training". It seemed off. And she was tireless.

Fast forward to xc in 2022, and the exact same pattern emerged, injury, then she comes back with huge effort after huge effort, never seeming to tire. And when she was asked how she could come back from injury so strongly, her answer seemed disingenuous.

Now we are supposed to buy that she had a massive jump in form again, never tiring again despite massive efforts, running in a manner that does not make sense for athletes that have to deal with mundane things like fatigue, and her explanations for it come across as disingenous, almost contrived. We are supposed to buy that this is due to novel training methods. Maybe. Stranger things I guess. But it does not seem credible.