Sub-3 for 50k. When you talk the talk you gotta walk the walk.
Sub-3 for 50k. When you talk the talk you gotta walk the walk.
Raysharp001 wrote:
Apparently you know very little about professional marathoners.
I thought that sounded weird. Surely they have to get some practice over 20 miles?
jjanderson01 wrote:
Why should someone give up their spot to Sara Hall? Sara didn't finish the Olympic Trials race. Aliphine, Molly, and Sally did -- before everyone else -- and earned those spots.
Not sure why you are taking that comment seriously, but I will answer. Because she is clearly the USA's best marathoner and had one bad race at the trials. In an ideal world, if one of the qualified runners is not near their best shape, Sara Hall would take their place, She gives the USA the highest probability to compete rather than the results of a one-off race.
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
jjanderson01 wrote:
Why should someone give up their spot to Sara Hall? Sara didn't finish the Olympic Trials race. Aliphine, Molly, and Sally did -- before everyone else -- and earned those spots.
Not sure why you are taking that comment seriously, but I will answer. Because she is clearly the USA's best marathoner and had one bad race at the trials. In an ideal world, if one of the qualified runners is not near their best shape, Sara Hall would take their place, She gives the USA the highest probability to compete rather than the results of a one-off race.
Hopefully she has a better race at the next marathon trials.
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
jjanderson01 wrote:
Why should someone give up their spot to Sara Hall? Sara didn't finish the Olympic Trials race. Aliphine, Molly, and Sally did -- before everyone else -- and earned those spots.
Not sure why you are taking that comment seriously, but I will answer. Because she is clearly the USA's best marathoner and had one bad race at the trials. In an ideal world, if one of the qualified runners is not near their best shape, Sara Hall would take their place, She gives the USA the highest probability to compete rather than the results of a one-off race.
The trials are what counts and who decides who is not in their best shape? It's not the other runner's fault that she wasn't ready that day.
Good for Des, what an awesome performance...especially without the adrenaline of real competition!
$ wrote:
Come on some of you negative nells, what have you ever done, list it ?
4:38 mile while legally intoxicated (HS)
4:25.92 road mile on cocaine (rolling course)
4:18.5 mile on mushrooms (college, track slightly bendy)
many other great things
I think we dated in college.
I see McMillian says 4:25.92 road mile on cocaine (rolling course) is worth a 4:07 mile on a decent Mondo track, not the crappy ones.
Not really. Wilts under the pressue of the USOT, I don't Sara Hall on the team.
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
Not sure why you are taking that comment seriously, but I will answer. Because she is clearly the USA's best marathoner and had one bad race at the trials. In an ideal world, if one of the qualified runners is not near their best shape, Sara Hall would take their place, She gives the USA the highest probability to compete rather than the results of a one-off race.
Boy you must be out of your mind. No one is working their entire lives to qualify for the Olympics, placing top 3 at the Trials, then giving up their spot to someone they beat fair and square.
Nice run!! About the same pace I ran 25k Riverbankrun 1:29:48 in 1989, but she ran two of them back to back
Great run, Desi; an Olympian, a Boston Marathon winner, a 2:22 marathoner, and now the FIRST-EVER women to run a sub-3 50 km. What a great career in a nutshell. My wife will be toasting you tonight with a shot of whisky and a run.
Utah Girl Chronicles wrote:
I see McMillian says 4:25.92 road mile on cocaine (rolling course) is worth a 4:07 mile on a decent Mondo track, not the crappy ones.
lol
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
jjanderson01 wrote:
Why should someone give up their spot to Sara Hall? Sara didn't finish the Olympic Trials race. Aliphine, Molly, and Sally did -- before everyone else -- and earned those spots.
Not sure why you are taking that comment seriously, but I will answer. Because she is clearly the USA's best marathoner and had one bad race at the trials. In an ideal world, if one of the qualified runners is not near their best shape, Sara Hall would take their place, She gives the USA the highest probability to compete rather than the results of a one-off race.
No, not clearly. They don’t have do-overs at the Olympics either. You have to deliver on the given day.
Your move Walmsley
But Linden said this 50K experience only confirms what she’d been thinking the last few years about her future as an ultramarathoner, and possibly pursuing new challenges on the trails down the line.
“Maybe I’ll do a 50-miler," Linden said. "Maybe I’ll do a 100K, I don’t know. …But I've been in this sport for a really long time and I never want to feel like I’m stagnating or bored with what I’m doing."
Would be pretty cool to see her dominate some ultra distances
Des not going to the Olympics this year is reminding me of something. I'm sure I'll think of it at some point.
lrcreader wrote:
Would be pretty cool to see her dominate some ultra distances
Desiree will be up for some big surprises when she moves to the real ultras.
Yeah, she'll find out you need to walk.