What Really Happened to Tuohy?

I’d love to see her go after a half marathon. Maybe her talent is better suited to the roads than the track.

Exactly. Hedengren will win nothing, nor will valby.

True, but you can only run against who shows up to the ncaa meet that year.

We don't go back and say Skieresz or Favor wasn't any good, since they would not have been top 20 today.

Ok. I going over this again for the hopeless yahoos on here.

This is not a sport. It is a chemistry experiment with pretensions of pretending to be a sport. The chemistry is simply too powerful for any natural athlete to compete with.

Now it used to be that in cross-country and distance there was no money, or nil or internet celebrity, and high school and college distance running was relatively clean. Whereas high school and college sprinting was always dirty because the money and the chance at Olympic glory was present early. Plus steroids are much more detectible. High school distance athletes were just regular kids coached by the social studies teacher. They were not part of pro training groups with pro coaches with the pro corruption.

The thing about a natural athlete is that they suffer ups and downs. They have off races, tired legs. They get anxiety because their confidence is not being artificially boosted by chemicals. They sometimes falter. Whereas ped using athletes never seem to have an off day. They may lose, but they are always on.

Now as it turns out Tuohy's high school celebrity works against her. Because if she gets caught, she has something to lose, particularly a college coaching career which in the long run is much more lucrative then a short term stint at pro fame where you going to get annihilated by the shameless East Africans anyway. Plus Tuohy always seemed too normal for this. Whereas dopers have a certain personality type, vapid, sociopathic, antisocial, win at all costs, shallow, etc. Which pretty much characterizes the typical American "late bloomer" who has sudden epiphany at 24. And maybe the now emerging high school fame seeker. But who knows.

And she's faster than you. She's accomplished more than you ever will.

If she’s running poorly at 5000m, it won’t be any better on the roads. She’s on the speed side of 5000m, anyway.

We've seen a few who ran 1500/5K in college and early as a pro go to the marathon later and do quite well. Sara Hall, Sara Vaughn, Kira D'Amato...

Sometimes after a few years of injury someone comes out of the woodwork and does something special after they are off the radar and the pressure is off.

The same thing that happened to Tuohy is what will happen to the over_ hyped Jane 😊😊😊😊😊

Not really. Like Hedengren she was always a distance runner, who was accidentally good at the mile thru strength.

Her 60/2:09 hs 400/800 show this. Getting outkicked in college confirmed.

She's eager to run some longer stuff when time is right.

Everyone wants to bury her already. Plenty of time for better 5000 in runup to 2028 games. I don't think there will be any move off the track til then.

Nobody wants to bury her. They are merely discussing the present. She is a 4:05/15:30 type woman until she isn't.

Hybrid fitness racing like Hyrox or OCR is where shoud be.

She is never going to run 14:20.

Just here to say Claudia lane was better in xc 🥹

The thing I like about this board is your unhinged posts, claiming that your favorite athlete is clean and anyone faster than her is doping. Cultish.

Her brother helped North Rockland qualify for NXN for the first time ever in the boys side

Katelyn made NXN with her team in 2015 but that was through an at large

https://results.leonetiming.com/xc.html?mid=8270

I think she'll put everything into making the '28 Olympics, if it doesn't work out she'll slowly start transitioning into coaching. she seems embedded with the NC State team and clearly likes it in Raleigh. I could see her working under Henes and eventually taking over the program.

You know, many high school phenoms don't pan out even at the college level, much less pro. In all sports. A lot of high school phenoms, while talented, also benefit from early physical maturity. They can dominate less physically-mature athletes but later, that advantage disappears. Tuohy appears to be one of those athletes. Also, it is much easier to dominate at the high school level where there is a tremendous talent disparity than the next level)s), where it gets harder and harder. You have to be the best of the best of the best to dominate at the pro level, which few do.

Except that there is this other person named Elly Henes who has had a more successful pro career which is starting to wind down and probably has the inside track to an assistance coaching position under the current Henes.