Give Courtney Dauwalter a black screen!

Sprinters are fast guys who aren’t good enough at football to make real money in the NFL.

Ultrarunners are distance runners who are not fast enough to make so so money in traditional distance events.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Ms. Gregory was the individual bronze medalist in the Junior World Mountain Running Championships in 2017. So you could view her as a world class mountain runner who literally jumped into track races and immediately started winning.

Allie O and Grayson Murphy are two other women who had mountain running success before they had track success I believe. (though steeple might be the closest track event to mountain running one can find)

He’s not bad at distance running. He’s outstanding, 14 min 5K & 103 Half, just not good enough to be at the very top. In Ultra he can be one of the best because the competition is lesser. I don’t blame him. It’s a smart move.

Just watched Courtney's post-race interview with iRunFar (her very first interview was interrupted by sickness). It's worth watching, not only to see what a down-to-earth great ambassador she is for the sport, but also some of the racing considerations. First, she's at the finish line during "golden hour," nearly 15 hours after she finished, watching people who are trying to beat the ultimate time cutoff for the race; I love this about ultrarunning (it's not universal among the top finishers, but it's also not rare). Second, you hear about her thinking "it's time to hit the gas," and time to really push, and one of those comments is keyed off the Foresthill aid station. For context, Foresthill is after 62 miles of running, much of it in the high country and a fair portion of it in the snow (as she references earlier).

She ran about 5:15/11:15 for track in high school. I'd guess she could give 16 min a sniff if she put in some specific work without much of a problem.

Props to that skinnyski link, that was a fun jog down memory lane.

She’s truly one of the greatest personalities and competitors in running, period. Every interview I’ve listened to from her is grounded, fun, and inspiring.

Her training is also super interesting (Though some hardcore agro runners on here will likely disagree). She basically steps out the door each morning and sees what her legs give her for the day. No real structure and almost purely on feel. For someone of her caliber this could actually be an excellent way to train for ultras (just need the time on foot). Of course, to give an idea what that might look like, she was in Eugene a few months ago to met up with Cameron Haynes and went for a casual 60 miler, hitting up every good running spot in town.

3rd place finisher Anthony Costales has a marathon PR of 2:13:13 at California International Marathon 2017.

You got downvoted 7 to 1 but I think you were just pointing out that we are all "terrible" at the other sports. If a sprinter could be in the NFL, he would. He'd be making 80 million dollars. But he is "bad" at football. If I could have run a 44 second 400m, I wouldn't have spent thousands of hours during college training for the 1500m.

But we all are what we are. It is just weird that people who run the 1500m or 5km care so much about the fact that other events (steeplechase, ultramarathon, 400H) aren't as deep as the 15 or 5.

Most of you are dumb kids who think you know it all and will soon realize that the advice of folks who came before you who care about similar things will be advisable to y'all. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but ya just need to figure out that life is best lived when you find what you love and pursue that and don't b!tch about things you don't really know about.

Does the letsrun community consider a
marathon PR of 2:13:13 a "slow" time?

This is worth evaluating. If 14:09 is the best-ever men's time we can extrapolate that it would be on par with a 13:09 5K, allowing for the fact that the very, very best aren't running it. So her 15:29 would be similar to a 14:25 which is an amazing effort!

Does the letsrun community consider a marathon PR of 2:13:13 a "slow" time?

What's the fastest marathon time by a WS starter. Michael Aish was 2:13, Max King 2:14. Anyone faster than 2:13?

There are a large number of posters that could never run anywhere close to a 2:13, but would swear on their mother’s life that it’s too slow for a professional runner.

That sums up this message board perfectly.

and Courtney wins Hardrock.

Anyone delusional enough to downvote this is the cream of the clueless.