Okay I was wrong.
Des is now just a marketing freak show. She has nothing left to offer to elite running. Just fake created events for the hobby jogger.
She lost by 3 minutes to someone who lost to Keira by 4 minutes. She is no longer relevant. Kind of sad.
huge fan of levothyroxine wrote:
Okay I was wrong.
Des is now just a marketing freak show. She has nothing left to offer to elite running. Just fake created events for the hobby jogger.
She lost by 3 minutes to someone who lost to Keira by 4 minutes. She is no longer relevant. Kind of sad.
Makena is a very good runner. Don't act like losing to her means someone is a failure. Thats rude.
I saw what happened when Makena ran the same distance in the same time in Michigan.
She lost to Keira Damato by over a half mile.
She lost to Emma Bates by a half mile.
She lost to Elaina Tabb by a quarter mile.
This is a race was just a couple months ago. Makena is good but not currently top level. She is however over a half mile ahead of Des. Which puts Des about a mile and a quarter behind Keira.
And Keira is unsponsored. Weird?
huge fan of levothyroxine wrote:
I saw what happened when Makena ran the same distance in the same time in Michigan.
She lost to Keira Damato by over a half mile.
She lost to Emma Bates by a half mile.
She lost to Elaina Tabb by a quarter mile.
This is a race was just a couple months ago. Makena is good but not currently top level. She is however over a half mile ahead of Des. Which puts Des about a mile and a quarter behind Keira.
And D'Amato on top of that is way behind the elite Africans. Linden is about two whole miles off the back of them. She'll probably hang it up soon.
ShilohDoesntCare wrote:
huge fan of levothyroxine wrote:
I saw what happened when Makena ran the same distance in the same time in Michigan.
She lost to Keira Damato by over a half mile.
She lost to Emma Bates by a half mile.
She lost to Elaina Tabb by a quarter mile.
This is a race was just a couple months ago. Makena is good but not currently top level. She is however over a half mile ahead of Des. Which puts Des about a mile and a quarter behind Keira.
And D'Amato on top of that is way behind the elite Africans. Linden is about two whole miles off the back of them. She'll probably hang it up soon.
I hope you are right but I kinda doubt it. I want to remember her as a champion and not a gimmick type of runner that Brooks appears to be trying to turn her into. No more Destober please.
I just ran the half and it was 60 at the start with a headwind. Very humid too. It wasn’t perfect conditions. Des is still a stud and she ran like crazy in October. Still amazing!!
applaud Mississippi wrote:
But, but, but ... they had 1,117 runners in the HM, 359 in the marathon, and 516 in the 5K. Sounds to me like large races can be successfully conducted right now. Maybe not the 30K+ like Boston or Chicago yet, but certainly the 2,000-3,000 ones.
Give it a second. The incubation period is at least 5 days.
Don’t count out Des. In 2019 she had a terrible half marathon at rock n roll philly and then rocked it at NYC. Boy, short term memories here....she did just finish 4th at the trials people.
first up to bat wrote:
Don’t count out Des. In 2019 she had a terrible half marathon at rock n roll philly and then rocked it at NYC. Boy, short term memories here....she did just finish 4th at the trials people.
Translation
Des Linden still wants appearance money.
I don’t blame her.
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Linear serial extrapolations like the ones posited here are just as stupid as assuming linear progression.
Calvin Peeing Decal wrote:
Looks like she's racing in the Sara Hall prototype. Those definitely aren't Metaracers on her feet, do any pros race in the Metaracer?
Those are no magic speeds or plated racer. Yes over a Half Marathon won in plain ol Eva Hyperspeeds! due next month. A 7.5oz $90msrp racer designed to help you run or not forget how to run...
It's good to be able to read about athletes like Desi Linden entering races and being healthy. A few months ago Emma Bates thought her and her husband contracted Covid. Does anyone know how Bates is doing? Is she healthy and training or racing?
huge fan of levothyroxine wrote:
Okay I was wrong.
Des is now just a marketing freak show. She has nothing left to offer to elite running. Just fake created events for the hobby jogger.
She lost by 3 minutes to someone who lost to Keira by 4 minutes. She is no longer relevant. Kind of sad.
Des came in 4th in Atlanta just this year. Judging from her Brooks marketing stunts she’s obviously not really training for anything, just seems to be having fun when there isn’t really anything serious going on. Why is this a bad thing? Don’t break yourself if there’s no need to. Just maintain fitness and hit the gas again when there’s a serious race to train for.
I bet she’ll be top 5 in Boston this fall, or whatever marathon she chooses. She still has racing left.
I frankly doubt she's going to be incredibly motivated to get in big shape to throw down in an elite field of three (one of whom has done little outside of trail racing) for the mighty, prestigious Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon. She ran hard, right around tempo effort, and that's all anyone should expect. It's not like NYC or Boston is right around the corner and she has to tune-up for those. Morley and Murphy were probably far more motivated as they're relative nobodies (and probably weren't this race's first choices after Des) needing to establish themselves better at the pro level and would probably have had zero appearance fee invites this year or next without this opportunity.
As for the "now just a marketing freak show" judgment, there's actually room for both for someone like her. Have people just forgotten what Deena did as Athens receded further into the past? The attempt to negotiate a wine country vacay for herself and Andrew from a minor CA race? It's not rare at all.
Des probably still recovering from that last week in October. Don’t think she is in form in December...don’t get your panties in a wad...if called upon she will be ready next summer
1hobbyjogger1 wrote:
It's good to be able to read about athletes like Desi Linden entering races and being healthy. A few months ago Emma Bates thought her and her husband contracted Covid. Does anyone know how Bates is doing? Is she healthy and training or racing?
Her Instagram shows she is healthy and training. Not sure about racing.
1hobbyjogger1 wrote:
It's good to be able to read about athletes like Desi Linden entering races and being healthy. A few months ago Emma Bates thought her and her husband contracted Covid. Does anyone know how Bates is doing? Is she healthy and training or racing?
Dude. That was almost a year ago. She ran the half in Michigan last month in 1:09:44 after a full year of hard training. She posts regularly on social media.