Eat more Tofu wrote:
That's pretty incompetent if true. What kind of logic believes a 14 year old girl needs that kind of stimulus? Did he eventually plan on working her up to 150 miles a week her senior year? And then he swings the pendulum the other way?
Well, we shouldn't just blame the coach. Maybe she did the mileage on her own? You don't know how competitive and motivated these young girls can get, I wouldn't be surprised if she did a ton of mileage on her own without maybe even telling her coach.
Here is her/her coach interview from the article from Dallasnews:
""Had she run any more, she was at a high risk of separating tendon from bone. It was hanging by a string," Guyer cross country coach Jonathan Ponsonby said. "That is why she did not compete at the state meet. She would have ran had a doctor not told her no. That would have been a much longer recovery, with surgery or career ending."
As a freshman, Brown suffered a severe tear of the ischial tuberosity, a bone that is connected to the hamstring muscles. That was a result of running about 110 miles a week between races and practice in cross country and games and practices as a center midfielder in soccer, a sport she played at the high school and club level.
"I don't know many professional athletes that wouldn't break," Ponsonby said. "She was doing way too much mileage. They told her you've got to stop."
Brown didn't stop initially when she began feeling pain late in the cross country season. She still finished second at the District 6-6A meet, then placed 19th at the 6A Region I meet to qualify for state.
"I ran through it, hoping that it wasn't too big of an injury," Brown said. "It blew up at regionals. I was in pretty bad pain.""
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Incredibly tough mentally, and obviously extremely talented. But she needs a coach to hold her back, I know I'll get criticized for just mentioning the name again, but here Tinman and his philosophies would fit perfectly. He would literally explain his CV workouts to her, and why she should run mile repeats at 5:30 pace and not 4:55 pace and why it would be better in the long-term development for her. There might be college coaches who would legit reject her if she is hammering hard intervals / VO2MAX sessions week after week, because they think/know she just wouldn't improve anymore in college.