Cooper Teare

Bonking is a strategic miscalculation and it’s dangerous to get there, leave alone try to push through it. Sad as it may be, it’s sending the wrong message to praise such crawl finishes as brave. They’re unfortunate and great runners may be vulnerable to miscalculation on a bad day, but let’s leave it at that.

A full ironman.

Vs. a 10k race.

Not the same thing.

I would guess that Teare did not bonk due to the booster.

But would not dismiss the possibility out of hand.

I don't see where Cooper was running over his head.

He was one of the favorites.

He was running in the pack, not way ahead of it.

The weather was not a problem.

It was only a 10k race. He had run one less than 2 weeks earlier and finished a close 3rd, only 0.2 secs behind Hicks.

What caused this?

Did he get a booster since that previous race?

Does anyone actually know anything about this?

wejo wrote:

Cheptegei is the best example of what happened. People can push themselves past the max especially when it is warm for them.

It was 71 degrees in Tallahassee yesterday. Last June at the Olympic Trials, it was 88 degrees.

f—-ing happens all the time.

Not to elite male runners. Cheptegai is the only other recent example I can think of, and that was 4 1/2 years ago. It's actually pretty uncommon.

johnny on the spot wrote:

10k on grass is what separates the men from the boys I guess

It was a fast course well suited to a 5000 meter runner such as Cooper Teare.

colorunner123 wrote:

johnny on the spot wrote:

10k on grass is what separates the men from the boys I guess

It was a fast course well suited to a 5000 meter runner such as Cooper Teare.

Except that Teare is a miler / 5000m runner and not a 5000m / 10000m runner.

34xz8 wrote:

So this is another antivaxx thread now? As if no one ever collapsed before in a race prior to the covid vaccine. I'm sure most people here remember Todd Williams collapsing in in the 1997 USTAF 5K final.

https://youtu.be/rtC9BZntpKc

No one said it's never happened before, only that it's very uncommon among male elites. You just won an argument against a straw man.

floridaman wrote:

I was there. It was cold in the morning but the men’s race was at midday and the sun was brutal, also to those saying he faked it he was stumbling from the end of the home stretch he definitely did not fake it. Also, people need to stop making baseless assumptions saying he has an eating disorder. It’s not healthy to obsess over eating healthy for every single meal-that’s an eating disorder in itself. leave the man alone, it’s ok to eat junk food sometimes lol

It was low 70s yesterday. Brutal? In June, Cooper finished 4th at the Olympic Trials 5000 meters when it was 88 degrees.

oldladycoach wrote:

Why in the world would a young healthy athlete get a booster at this point?

"The UO requires students who learn, work, or live on any UO campus location to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the start of their fall 2021 academic term."

Coach in training wrote:

colorunner123 wrote:

It was a fast course well suited to a 5000 meter runner such as Cooper Teare.

Except that Teare is a miler / 5000m runner and not a 5000m / 10000m runner.

I get that. 10,000m is not Cooper's best event, although I don't think it should pose any big problems for him on a good day. I was responding to the argument (quoted above) that Cooper Teare's problems arose because he was running on grass rather than the track. That argument might be persuasive if this were an exceptionally difficult course. In fact, it was one of the easiest NCAA championship courses in recent memory.

Does anyone else think cooper teare was milking it?

carmine9 wrote:

Was it 90 plus degrees and humid as all get out in yesterday's race?

LOL, it was 71 degrees in Tallahassee yesterday.

Humidity+dehydration. Cooper Teare proved he is all heart. He did exactly what he said he'd do pre-race, leave nothing on the course.

Well, if you get to that point you 100% know you gave your best effort on the day. No denying that.

Jeffrey Wiseman wrote:

Does anyone else think cooper teare was milking it?

You're certainly not the only one thinking it,but your post will be deleted along with all the others that have gone that suggested it.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

I’ve had my fair share of races like that. One time I ran 26:40 or some garbage time at the Pre Nats 8k course and my coach said I gave up. I sure did. My hamstrings blew up at 0.5 miles and I couldn’t move and just jogged the final 4.5 miles. It happens.

Nonsense. You couldn't move and had blown up hamstrings, but still ran 5:20 mile pace for over 4 miles Your ailment wasn't the same as what Teare experienced.

colorunner123 wrote:

f—-ing happens all the time.

Not to elite male runners. Cheptegai is the only other recent example I can think of, and that was 4 1/2 years ago. It's actually pretty uncommon.

Well, Pat Tiernan's collapse in the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics a few months ago comes to my mind: