Cooper Teare

hulla wrote:

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.

Agree with this. It’s downright negligent for race management and medical to allow someone to continue to “compete” when he/she has hit the deck and starts to crawl and wobble forward in a delirious state. You see this in Japan racing quite often and it’s ridiculous. The idea of encouraging these athletes along is gruesome. The athlete should get medical care immediately when this happens. Anything less is akin to letting a fighter go another round after getting knocked out cold. Quit encouraging this and making it out like the athlete is tough to finish. Honestly, the athlete is in no state of mind at that point to be making any decisions. This really needs to stop.

Relieved Teare is going to be fine (hopefully).

That looked a lot like jenny Simpson senior year. Probably full on mental.

Jeffrey Wiseman wrote:

Does anyone else think cooper teare was milking it?

100%

eh? he's not from my country mate.

Smoke weed, talk sh!t like Lane Kiffin wrote:

That looked a lot like jenny Simpson senior year. Probably full on mental.

Well, if he has even half the success Jenny did it would be a very successful career.

Fkn haters never happy about anything.

Likely all these a,…s can barely ran a pathetic 16-17 min 5k. You'll never be close to a top collegian athlete not even in your most wild dreams…

Such f*cking theatrics, Bowerman is vomiting in his grave.

abcrunning wrote:

Fkn haters never happy about anything.

Likely all these a,…s can barely ran a pathetic 16-17 min 5k. You'll never be close to a top collegian athlete not even in your most wild dreams…

Hope he sees this bro

Pineapple Juice wrote:

Hooma wrote:

Has nothing to do with being a 13:12 guy. This has happened to a ton of runners including world class professional runners. Sometimes it just happens, and it's not indicative of anything.

Distance running has a reputation for eating disorders. However I’ll walk back the “disorder” take. But I do think that too many distance runners do not fuel properly. Especially those with the pressure of performing at such a high level.

These are the questions that should be asked…

#1 Is the athlete consuming enough calories?

#2 Are the calories containing the appropriate nutrients?

#3 Is there the appropriator level of hydration?

It seems like certain programs aren’t asking this questions. Instead they’re focused on their athletes being a certain “number” on the scale.

Your thoughts on this are wrong. He went out too hard and bonked big time. That's it.