Athing Mu 4:16.06 Today!!!

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Hey, some freshman just ran a 4:16, closing in 62 , in her first attempt at 1500 in college and she ran it in a duel meet in muggy Texas.

Wow. That's impressive!

Not really. You see, she has 50 sec. 400 meter speed.

The Dirty Duck wrote:

Nobody in the world has more potential in the 800 right now. She is capable of a great 1500, too, obviously. But who really cares how fast her 1500 is.

Funny, cause I remember a certain American 400 meter gold medalist who because he had the "right body type" had everybody here salivating about his 800 meter potential. The message board practically begged him to take it seriously.

Lifetime PR will be 4:07.

Luis Peralta of Oregon ran 3:47 yesterday. He's primarily a 400/800 guy

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Hey, some freshman just ran a 4:16, closing in 62 , in her first attempt at 1500 in college and she ran it in a duel meet in muggy Texas.

Wow. That's impressive!

Not really. You see, she has 50 sec. 400 meter speed.

she's got three or four seconds on present-day Ajee Wilson in a 400, and when Ajee was Athing's age, her 1500 PB was 4:24. Seems pretty impressive to me.

rhojo wrote:

I now pronounce you ... wrote:

Is her name pronounced "Moo" or "Moe?"

Moe

Thanks for the clarification. I thought that's how the announcers said it on TV but wasn't sure.

Talking about 1500m/potential, I can't wait to see UK's 800m young star 19yrs old Keely Hodgkinson over those distances. Keely, who is on a collision course with Athing over 800m, first came to prominence as a 13 yr old cross country champion and so I am expecting great things from her over the longer distances. Of course, she can't match Athing's 400m speed.

New Jersey churns out 800 stars like clockwork

Yeah but she could smoke you in a 400 and is a female sprinter (with range) and not a skinny distance dude. This result from Mu shows nice potential at the 800. If you can run 49pt in the 400 and maximize that speed in the 800 you can run 1:54. Long way to go for her, but it’s a nice early-season result.

wut dis? wrote:

This is supposed to be good?

why is everyone so negative? a 4:16 1500 puts her at 3rd on TFRRS right now for the event, ahead of 1500/mile all Americans Lotte Black, Kaley Richards, Courtney Wayment, etc. She is running the same time in an off event as Wayment, the NCAA 3k indoor champ who out kicked pros in the husky classic indoors this year. MU also closed in a 62 and would go much faster if she didn't have to lead the entire race. Everyone expects a record out of her every time she races but this is a really strong result.

Very good run considering she is training for the 400/800.

I don't think people are negative. It is more of an annoyance of how this community is obsessed with distance running so they want to have everyone move up and they get so excited with range which is meaningless. If Mu ends up running 4:05 during her career, so what? That doesn't make a US team. All that matters is what she does in her primary events. She could run 1:54 but she won't ever run 3:50.

Big Timer wrote:

I don't think people are negative. It is more of an annoyance of how this community is obsessed with distance running so they want to have everyone move up and they get so excited with range which is meaningless. If Mu ends up running 4:05 during her career, so what? That doesn't make a US team. All that matters is what she does in her primary events. She could run 1:54 but she won't ever run 3:50.

I don’t think many of any on this thread have suggested she move up to 1500m and abandon the 800m.

Thank you Douglas I agree THAT she has the talent on the world scene 1500m. Yes 4:16 for someone who ran 50.5 400m indoors is impressive. Didn't the BYU girl just win a 1500m yesterday sane meet as Cole and she didn't receive any negative comments.

Sure thing...........!

Girl? She is a woman and you don't call her by name? Now maybe you understand. Nobody started a thread to discuss how amazing her win was.

I haven't seen anyone being negative or hating on this thread

It just seems people want to be realistic and put things in perspective... and not go crazy over regular stuff!

She's close to, or already at, world class times in the 400 m, the 600 M, the 800m!

She's about 20 to 25 seconds off that at the 1500....

Also she's run this distance a bunch of times growing up so it's not like this is something she's unfamiliar with. This is a distance she's had experience with from a young age

It's a solid time and she's a great Runner, but there's nothing exceptional or remarkable Happening Here. It's pretty much what you would expect given her history and abilities

And people are just stating the obvious that it's not something that's so newsworthy. Wow a world-class 800-meter Runner can run 20 seconds off world-class time at the 1500 meter. Okay.? And?

You’re missing the fact that she is also world-class at 400. Perhaps as good as she is at 800. Not many 400-800 types exist, and even fewer can throw down in a 1500. If Rudisha or Amos ran 3:40 with a 55 second last lap it would generate excitement here as well.

life is weird wrote:

I haven't seen anyone being negative or hating on this thread

You miss the poster calling it slow?