Everyone has the myostatin gene. It regulates muscle growth by limiting the growth of muscles. There can be mutations that can cause hypertrophy or hyperplasia, though.
I don’t get why everyone is exaggerating about her muscularity. She’s actually probably tiny in person. I remember seeing a photo of a girl many years ago, with the photo taken whilst in a race - she looked muscular in full flow, but in reality was very small, just with low body fat (so the underlying muscles stood out more). She was also very weak in the gym (much weaker than average girls even). It is true though that her body type was - like KTs - more naturally on the mesomorph side, which may look large against the African and majority ectomorph distance runners.
I don’t get why everyone is exaggerating about her muscularity. She’s actually probably tiny in person. I remember seeing a photo of a girl many years ago, with the photo taken whilst in a race - she looked muscular in full flow, but in reality was very small, just with low body fat (so the underlying muscles stood out more). She was also very weak in the gym (much weaker than average girls even). It is true though that her body type was - like KTs - more naturally on the mesomorph side, which may look large against the African and majority ectomorph distance runners.
Many of the posts exaggerating physique are by trolls. They can no longer claim she will never win NXN again, or never be a factor in college, or never go pro... so they made up new garbage to try to be hurtful. Sad people.
Once Valby gets back on her game, she’ll go back to beating Tuohy by 15+ seconds in the 5000m.
"Back to beating Tuohy by 15+ seconds in the 5000m" can you list all of the times Valby has beaten Tuohy in the 5000m on the track? The rest of us might be missing some data.
Impressive comeback 5000m race by KT! After watching the video, it looks like she could run 14:50 right now with the right pacers. Definitely looked strong and well within herself. Hoping she stays healthy.
Once Valby gets back on her game, she’ll go back to beating Tuohy by 15+ seconds in the 5000m.
"Back to beating Tuohy by 15+ seconds in the 5000m" can you list all of the times Valby has beaten Tuohy in the 5000m on the track? The rest of us might be missing some data.
Valby ran 14:52 last year and Tuohy 15:07, so there’s your 15 seconds. If they were in the same race, it would have been the same thing but maybe a little more had Tuohy tried to run with Valby.
This year Valby could approach 14:40 while the over/under for Tuohy is probably 15:00. You can say her 15:04 would indicate she can improve enough to challenge Valby, but Tuohy laid an egg at the OT after earlier running a 15:07.
Valby ran 14:52 last year and Tuohy 15:07, so there’s your 15 seconds. If they were in the same race, it would have been the same thing but maybe a little more had Tuohy tried to run with Valby.
This year Valby could approach 14:40 while the over/under for Tuohy is probably 15:00. You can say her 15:04 would indicate she can improve enough to challenge Valby, but Tuohy laid an egg at the OT after earlier running a 15:07.
The KT who ran 15:04 is not the tired out, needing a break KT from the OT's. She looks very fresh, strong, and healthy, and ready to get back at it again. After watching the entire race video from her 15:04 count me among those who believe she can go 14:52ish in the right race.
Why was she “tired and needing a break?” If anything, that applied to Valby at the time. It was a 40+ second gap between the two. It might be closer with Valby coming back from injury, but both at full fitness is a mismatch.
You would think these people would have learned to temper their enthusiasm by now but clearly not. Many of the comments on this thread are the same as we saw in July 2024 after she ran 15:07. I especially liked this post:
"She’s performing at 90% of her peak fitness of last year…which is good progress from the level she was able to perform just a few weeks ago, at the trials. In another few weeks/months she should be able to go sub 15 with 70/71 pace and closing in 65-68. She may get another shot at Valby in the post Olympic season. By 2025, if she’s healthy, she should be competitive with any of the top 5 US women and perhaps with the rest of the EU and East Africans."
And this:
"If you watch her interview she states she missed 5 months training, and has now been training for about 3 months."
So, she missed 5 months of training, had only been training for 3 months and ran 15:07. Now, she has been training for 14 months straight and runs ... 15:04. At that rate, maybe she'll break 15:00 by 2027.
I still remember right after she announced that she was running the Trials last year, people started trying to calculate what she needed to do in order to get into the Olympics by World Ranking.
Read the first page then gave up. 15:04 mostly solo mid-training block and presumably 6 weeks off of a peak is a great result. Would not be at all surprised by 14:5x low at nats.
I wouldn't be either. And 14:5x doesn't cut it for a pro runner trying to be competitive today.
Read the first page then gave up. 15:04 mostly solo mid-training block and presumably 6 weeks off of a peak is a great result. Would not be at all surprised by 14:5x low at nats.
I wouldn't be either. And 14:5x doesn't cut it for a pro runner trying to be competitive today.
Agree. It doesn’t. I give a pass to a her as a 23 year old but by the time she’s 24/25, if she hasn’t gone under 14:50s, well…