Unheralded mother of two and realtor, Keira D’Amato , runs 15:04 5K time trial and she's coached by Alan Webb's HS coach!!

Here's a thread I started last year having noticed the meteoric resurrection of this talented athlete taking flight. Keira has blown my mind, and who knows what's to come!!!

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9594338

Centro got her to finish 4th at ncaa xc. Didn’t screw her up at all.

It is About The Shoes wrote:

YMMV wrote:

Her best performance coming back in 2018 was her HM in 1:16, which converts to 16:12, compared to her 2006 PR of 16:09. The past two years have yielded a massive improvement.

It's easy to see that the performance increases are because of her shoes. When she stopped running over a decade ago people were wearing boots compared to the Nike running shoes of today.

If you were right about that, we'd have to believe these shoes can give 16:00 women a minute's improvement in the 5k. The same percentage improvement would have a 12:48 man running ~11:59. Do you believe that's a reasonable statement?

JV Scrub wrote:

RACZKO’S BACK, BABY!!!!

Props to D’Amato!

Very underrated coach.

wqqqqqqqq wrote:

It is About The Shoes wrote:

It's easy to see that the performance increases are because of her shoes. When she stopped running over a decade ago people were wearing boots compared to the Nike running shoes of today.

If you were right about that, we'd have to believe these shoes can give 16:00 women a minute's improvement in the 5k. The same percentage improvement would have a 12:48 man running ~11:59. Do you believe that's a reasonable statement?

You’re posting at ground zero in the direct center of the nonsensical universe. Did you really need to ask that question?

Wow, this one of the most mind blowing performances I have ever heard of.

fact checker 642572498 wrote:

She did beat Hasay at Olympic Trials

So what? Hasay was coming back from a torn hamstring and not at her best. The VDot chart clearly shows Keira is better at the 5K and should stick with developing at this distance.

YMMV wrote:

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

People actually use Next% on a track?

Most of the Bowerman Babes train on the track in them, and a few for track races. D'Amato is a marathoner and may not even own spikes.

From the article: “Should I wear spikes? I don’t have any anymore,” she said.

Hope she’s not messing with any funny stuff.

She looked relaxed. The fellow pacing her was smooth. When is Jamin going to do a time trial for all of us at LRC to watch and critique? Brojos, you need to put this together. You're sure to have at least 10 people watching.

Not related to the Fake Hingle McCringleberry

T.M.A.D.D.D.H.A.S.F.N.E.

A.G.I.A.N.

Coach extrordinaire wrote:Have you looked at how many world records are set by 20 year olds and how many are set by 35 year olds?

I actually looked it up for the Olympic events starting in the year 2000 but I doubt it would be any different going farther back. It’s 35 year olds, that’s an objective fact.

Just for random perspective: this is 1 second faster than the PR of Kim Conley, who was good enough to be a two time olympian.

Ugh...she's no slough...I don't see why you're saying she's unheralded. this seems like a natural progression for someone with her talent and improved training....6th in the NCAA XC championships is far from being a slouch and not what I'd considered "unheralded"

Her legs look very powerful

https://assets.sp.milesplit.com/videos/444350/images/kiera1.jpg

kingojamin wrote:

Something doesn't seem right here...

Yeah, she's that good! She's also a really cool person, Super nice, easy going, sociable, upbeat personality, I've known Keira since she was sidelined due to her foot injury that wouldn't allow her to run and required a pretty significant surgery to correct. She didn't have health insurance at the time so she couldn't afford the surgery until she got insurance. Thankfully, she eventually got the insurance, had a competent surgeon successfully resolve her issue, and the long, difficult road to where she is now then began. This was over 10 years ago. It will be exciting to see just how far she can take this improvement curve.

You think cutting more than 1 minute from your college PR when you are already national class is normal progression? 6th in 2018 was Ostrander. 6th in 2019 was Birk. Their 5k PRs are 15:16 and 15:38. If they make the same natural progression, they will run 14:10 and 14:30 when they are 35. Elite runners don't run PRs in the 5k at 35. They run them at 25. 39 women broke 16 in the 5k last year. Betting 39 women won't break 15 in about 13 years. I doubt if even 1 of rhise 39 breaks 15 when they are 35.

predictors wrote:

You think cutting more than 1 minute from your college PR when you are already national class is normal progression? 6th in 2018 was Ostrander. 6th in 2019 was Birk. Their 5k PRs are 15:16 and 15:38. If they make the same natural progression, they will run 14:10 and 14:30 when they are 35. Elite runners don't run PRs in the 5k at 35. They run them at 25. 39 women broke 16 in the 5k last year. Betting 39 women won't break 15 in about 13 years. I doubt if even 1 of rhise 39 breaks 15 when they are 35.

She obviously benefited from her obvious known talent, but the lengthy down time and start of a comeback in her mid-thirties....That is incredible. I think there may be a couple of other women who have gotten a later start and been highly successful. Priscilla Welch comes to mind.

predictors wrote:

You think cutting more than 1 minute from your college PR when you are already national class is normal progression? 6th in 2018 was Ostrander. 6th in 2019 was Birk. Their 5k PRs are 15:16 and 15:38. If they make the same natural progression, they will run 14:10 and 14:30 when they are 35.

Not to state the really, really obvious here... but the logical conclusion isn't that D'Amato's run is the equivalent of Ostrander running 14:10. The logical conclusion is that when D'Amato finished 6th at NCAA XC, she was in mid-15 shape for 5,000m, even though she didn't end up running that time in the subsequent track season. Now she has clearly improved, but perhaps by 20-30 seconds over her previous peak *fitness* (not PR).

kingojamin wrote:

Something doesn't seem right here...

Yeah, probably doesn't feel good learning of this while on the couch. We don't lack talent, we just make too many excuses.