Hobbling wrote:
maria_ wrote:
Actually, I saw a few pros who liked or commented Jordan's IG post about her race yesterday. She's not this hated figure that some of you make her out to be.
Keira D'Amato will be a flash in the pan. Jordan already isn't. She may never reach her previous heights, but she already has accomplished more than most of the basement dwellers who post here.
Hey! I'm in an attic. Not a basement.
She ran 74:26 less than a month ago for a flat out time trial with pacers.
A month later, she's gone through half way in a marathon in 74:23 (3 seconds faster) and then carried on with a 79:xx for a 2:33:51.
That's a decent improvement in fitness in a month. Roughly 2 minute half marathon improvement over her fitness a month ago I reckon.
That's not an improvement on fitness, that's a HM on full Marathon mileage vs a Marathon post-taper.
JD vdot has a [fresh] 74:23 = 2:35 full, so she's basically in the same fitness as she was for the half.