? She just evaporated off this earth once she signed with Tracksmith.
? She just evaporated off this earth once she signed with Tracksmith.
and there were a few of opportunities for her race over the last few weeks - like 2 weeks ago for example there was a meet at Ichan Stadium that she would have fit right into and Garden State TC has been running a series (mostly HS races but a few races for adults) that she could have raced in
yes , she told friends she is basically retire . Good for her , move on with life.
Why not you is ask her??
I think she has been done for 3 years.
don't believe she would just fade away. Think she would try to make some big announcement (as if anyone would really care)
Wasn't she signed as some sort of marketing person though? Like Lou but for NY? I didn't think racing was part of her job description.
She was signed up for the recent Tracksmith virtual 2 mile race, but apparently didn't run it. She put up some respectable times earlier this year, wonder what happened.
She might be injured? I don't follow her on Instagram, but I remember reading something from her over the summer I believe where she was talking about how the pandemic was making her body feel worse because of all the extra sitting. Which is something I can relate to because my hip flexors are tight as s*** because of the sitting for meetings
I hope not, I was very encouraged by her 9:07 breakthrough in the winter. Mind you it was after her first consistent 5 months of training since she was 17/18. It seemed like she was on her way back. But I agree there hasn't been much from her since the pandemic began, I sort of assumed she was laying low and (hopefully)) stringing together some more quality training.
interesting to note that with her 14:48 this year Elise Cranny seems like she he's the best chance at the olympic team out of the Cain/Efraimson/Cranny big 3 from 2014. The only one of the 3 to go the NCAA route
IG Farben wrote:
don't believe she would just fade away. Think she would try to make some big announcement (as if anyone would really care)
^Such a pardoxical post.
She's washed...
cranny wrote:
interesting to note that with her 14:48 this year Elise Cranny seems like she he's the best chance at the olympic team out of the Cain/Efraimson/Cranny big 3 from 2014. The only one of the 3 to go the NCAA route
Efraimson had a nice 2019 but I haven't seen anything from her in 2020. I am personally am not sure how to qualify those time trial events. And if I was a woman's 1500m runner, I would be thinking about what my 5000m potential is. The 1500m could. be loaded with with a dozen finalist's all with sub 4:05 PRs and 3 or4 having run sub 4 in the past 2 or 3 years.
9upfyu wrote:
IG Farben wrote:
don't believe she would just fade away. Think she would try to make some big announcement (as if anyone would really care)
^Such a pardoxical post.
Make that paradoxical.
No need to be nasty to her behind a keyboard. Not many pros are doing much of anything during the pandemic. The Tracksmith sponsorship/job is cool because she gets to work in the running industry. Hope that she isn't done running competitively but she has already done a ton for our sport even if some of the men on here can't see that. Hopefully she stays involved for years to come.
Nike’s experiment with signing high school girls to professional contracts did not pan out well.
Those girls forwent completely or partially their chance at a university experience and degree.
Some of their most informative and life shaping years were lost.
Their failures were put under a microscope, their successes were shortly lived or remembered.
The pressure must have been difficult to navigate.
Not just an experiment. You need to look worldwide at how many young women have run for Nike. Focusing on one failure and one average success is not fair to many others who are successful.
I will admit that I would have bet any amount of money 5 years ago if someone would have told me that Cranny would be 1 minute faster at 5k than the other 2 runners.
Nike is watching wrote:
Not just an experiment. You need to look worldwide at how many young women have run for Nike. Focusing on one failure and one average success is not fair to many others who are successful.
True, I do not really know about other high school girls outside of the USA that Nike took on in the same way.
There are also examples of US HS girl sprinters that forwent the NCAA experience and signed with Nike - that didn’t pan out.