Tell me how I'm wrong: Keira D'Amato's record is the coolest story in the sport this century

Your premise is so specific as to only have your answer.

Congrats.

Also, ROJO, why no doping or shoes talk????? Is it her skin tone?

wejo wrote:

just asking questions like a porn star wrote:This. They undermine her performance with some weird childish take that it’s the best running performance by anyone this century?They are actually making it about themselves, because they are unwilling or unable to do the hard work of properly analyzing her performance and instead want to gain attention for being the first to say the performance is something it isn’tArrested development due to being rich and spoiled their entire lives

 Not sure how that  makes me lazy. But glad this thread got a lot of discussion. Clearly people are interested in the topic.

(1) I KNOW you dont understand. We all do

(2) No! this thread hasn’t created discussion about Keira, which it should, because of YOUR thread title

another perspective wrote:

wejo wrote:

No we’ve got someone following the rules.They had instant and greater success than D’Amato . Sort of apples to oranges as I liked the fact she was running 3:14 5 years ago

Again Weldon, you've narrowed your goalposts from "coolest story in the sport this century" to "coolest story this century of an athlete who tried hard in their sport and didnt get crazy success instantly, but then found success later on in life at a time people don't usually breakthrough."

Like, okay, yes Keira might win that criteria, but it's so narrow there really isn't much point in debating it. In the broader "cool story coming from an unlikely background" then no, it doesn't win out in America let alone the world.

Why make the goal posts at all? Why not say “great job”?

You know why? Because they HAVE to make everything about themselves

wejo wrote:

No we’ve got someone following the rules.They had instant and greater success than D’Amato . Sort of apples to oranges as I liked the fact she was running 3:14 5 years ago

That shows she was not training seriously five years ago. She was a D1 All-American, so obviously a very talented runner. She just took time off from running.

If you go by that, maybe Mariko Yugeta (the first woman over 60 to run a sub 3 marathon) could be a better story. At age 62, she ran 17 minutes faster than her marathon time in her 20s.

Why are all of Keira D’Amato’s results missing/private on athlinks? It would be really interesting to see the progression in her results from hobby jogger back to elite runner.

I ran against her in some dinky little New Years Day 5K in 2017. She was only 2-3 months into her return to running and was probably about 40-50lb over her race weight. I (a mediocre DIII runner) beat her with an 18:30ish time. I got to know her a bit and we trained together a few times after that - she truly hadn’t been running or “staying in shape” in the way I think you’re imagining. All the markers of greatness were there though, even then!

You get a national championship , and you get a national champio wrote:

37 yrs old, decade away from the sport and breaks an American record running an amazing time. Why does no one question the legitimacy of this? We question and suspect everyone else that runs fast.

Don't get tied up with records.

They aren't all equal. Especially Women's events.

Be honest with yourself, just because you can't jog that fast, it doesn't mean its that hard.

Coolness is very subjective.

She is a white American and she has a full time non-athlete job. That makes her 10x more relatable to Letsrun members, and being relatable is all thats matter. No need to judge if her story is more inspiring than others.

That might be faster than her collegiate 5K PR?

jlr20 wrote:

I ran against her in some dinky little New Years Day 5K in 2017. She was only 2-3 months into her return to running and was probably about 40-50lb over her race weight. I (a mediocre DIII runner) beat her with an 18:30ish time. I got to know her a bit and we trained together a few times after that - she truly hadn’t been running or “staying in shape” in the way I think you’re imagining. All the markers of greatness were there though, even then!

I guess one if those "markers" would be being 40-50lb overweight - along with losing to a DIII runner in 18.30.

In the days when I still cared about the sport a 2.19 marathon was a very good time for a man and typically only run by those who were capable of sub-14 for 5k. Now it is run by women approaching 40 who couldn't break 15min for 5k.

Armstronglivs wrote:

In the days when I still cared about the sport a 2.19 marathon was a very good time for a man and typically only run by those who were capable of sub-14 for 5k. Now it is run by women approaching 40 who couldn't break 15min for 5k.

The Times, They Are a Changin'

Some of your posts sometimes make me question your maturity. This particular one sounds more like if it was from a 15 year old juvenile.

GMA did a story on it today but not Hall.

Story got a 2 minute slot on NPR's "All Things Considered" drive-home newscast:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073661354/keira-damato-sets-new-american-marathon-record-for-women

I think most of you guys are colossal d!ckwads with some kind of insecurity/complex. I often disagree with brojos, but after visiting here for close to 20 yrs, I think they are decent people and good for the sport. I don’t see anything wrong with what Weldon or Robert said and I don’t know why it provokes the angry tirade it does from some of you. Utterly pathetic.

You get a national championship , and you get a national champio wrote:

37 yrs old, decade away from the sport and breaks an American record running an amazing time. Why does no one question the legitimacy of this? We question and suspect everyone else that runs fast.

Exactly. Because she has cloaked herself with this “story”. However, she has the means and seems to be very thirsty for attention, so I do think she deserved skepticism. And she’s white.

Seriously, Want to see where this ranks amongst the American public? ESPN doesn't even have a mention of it on their website.

ESPN? The FOX News of sports? Seriously?

If you run you know what an accomplishment it is. Just because the non-athletes at ESPN don't respect it means nothing.