What happened? She finished 156th.
What happened? She finished 156th.
Injured. They think it is a stress fracture. Gutsy race. Had a chance to win if healthy.
I took her to win today in the contest. Missed it by 155 places! But a bit crazy if she finished it on a fracture.
If she had any kind of a stress reaction and they let her run someone needs to be fired immediately
Dr. NoNo wrote:
If she had any kind of a stress reaction and they let her run someone needs to be fired immediately
She went backwards after 2k, if they knew she was running on an injury they should be canned. What in the world is going on with Grace Connolly?
Im starting to believe all of this Stanford really doesn't do a very good job with development.
Very true, Stanford coach does nor develop well, works better with older established athlets like he had at Iona.
Connolly is not a superstar like Dudek, she was a big strong HS girl, not big upside, has stayed the same roughly.
palo stan wrote:
Very true, Stanford coach does nor develop well, works better with older established athlets like he had at Iona.
Connolly is not a superstar like Dudek, she was a big strong HS girl, not big upside, has stayed the same roughly.
The one I am wondering about is Tori Starcher.
Tori Starcher has just started running again. She did not run for 15 months due to stress fracture at the growth plate. She has just now started picking up her mileage. The coach es decided to bring her along slowly - just like Starliper, since this year didn't really count.
Distancefan wrote:
Tori Starcher has just started running again. She did not run for 15 months due to stress fracture at the growth plate. She has just now started picking up her mileage. The coach es decided to bring her along slowly - just like Starliper, since this year didn't really count.
bring them along slowly especially this year is very good coaching, its amazing how we see progression and regression with distance running at the college level with woman
The one who does seem to be coming along is Lucy Jenks, who pretty much did not run XC in HS, but ran a pretty good mile. 73rd in team race, right on Aragon's heels at finish.
She will be Bunnie Darko in 12 months. Build up those insta followers now Zofia!!!!
If she had any kind of a stress reaction and they let her run someone needs to be fired immediately
Same situation last year's XC Nationals for Stanford (diffrent runner of course).
Something to look at with Stanford is not practicing as a team with a coach all first semester - coming back having to quarebtine in Jan for 10 days only practicing 6 weeks as a team - that much time away from team coach and lead to a lot of things - working too hard, running through injury, lack motivation ect - besides not learning to run as a team. Teams like nc state have been at school since august ... not sure this year we can make a judgement (except running a girl if you think she has a fracture)
Hearing lots of disappointment with Dudak's race, but what about Michigan's Katelynn Hart. DNF. Anyone know what's up with her?
homeydontplaydat wrote:
Hearing lots of disappointment with Dudak's race, but what about Michigan's Katelynn Hart. DNF. Anyone know what's up with her?
I do not. Ran a pretty decent DMR anchor last Friday night (4:38). Could be coming from Michigan to 60 F and breezy? Could be they focused on the mile, and just were not ready for hard 6K.
They let O'keefe run on a sacral stress fracture at 2019 NCAAs.
Remember, Starcher has never been a stellar xc runner. She has never really trained for xc- just used her speed to get by. They talked about that in one of her interviews. I think we will see her help out the team on the track. Also remember, the team has only been training together for 6 weeks- not very long at all. She may become a xc runner at some point - she did run in the 20's this year. Time will tell.
Hart seemed to be doing decently (according to the splits)...then shut down around 5k. I have not seen anything saying what happened to her....but Hart does have a tendency to go out hard in big races, and then burning out near the end. I'm not saying this is what happened, and hopefully the Michigan coaches are helping her with pacing/patience...but too bad. She had been running pretty well.
In watching her during the race, it didn't look like she was favoring a leg/foot when she started dropping back. There are a few times when you can see her running for a few seconds, and she just looked like she was laboring.
I'm not saying at all that didn't injure herself, it just wasn't apparent from how she was running.
I would be shocked if they knew she was injured going into the race...hopefully that was not the case.
If she is injured, hopefully it is nothing serious. Does anyone know if she was planning on running outdoor season?
bak wrote:
Something to look at with Stanford is not practicing as a team with a coach all first semester - coming back having to quarebtine in Jan for 10 days only practicing 6 weeks as a team - that much time away from team coach and lead to a lot of things - working too hard, running through injury, lack motivation ect - besides not learning to run as a team. Teams like nc state have been at school since august ... not sure this year we can make a judgement (except running a girl if you think she has a fracture)
agree-6 weeks compared to being 6 months together as a group doing regular workouts/races is big...