Katelyn Tuohy breaks u20 3000m record

dchxsf wrote:

Tell me when she runs something useful for the global scene -8:30ish.

Vultures go home UNDETERRED!

Your statement is incorrect. 99% of posters want everyone to succeed but 3 posters spend 99% of their energy focused on 1 runner. It is good that this thread was created but the BU thread got taken over with talk about 1 runner who didn't win any race at the meet when the talk should have been about the winners of men's and women's 3k and 5k.

dchxsf wrote:

Tell me when she runs something useful for the global scene -8:30ish.

Could be in another couple of years. Koko ran 8:56 indoors (albeit solo and barely 19) and 8:46 outdoors at 19 (2016). A year later she ran 8:29 at DL Birmingham.

(It was a different trajectory, though, with less training and weaker marks at 16-17 than Tuohy.)

dchxsf wrote:

Tell me when she runs something useful for the global scene -8:30ish.

At under 20, 8:54 is useful for the global scene. Mary Cain won world juniors with an 8:58 in 2014 outdoors.

Plus she beat a time held by Olympian. Anyway after being assured that she was destined to never PR again she just did so by a massive seven seconds. Seems discussion worthy on a running site. Also professional running is such a PED addled cesspool that it is too depressing to care about. It is like cycling in the 1990s for three decades.

Would be far more impressed if she ran 1.55 like two other 19 year olds did this year, or its equivalent for 3000m (much faster than 8.54). Would also be more impressed if she actually won the race (like Cain did at Worldu20).

This anointing of every American HS star as the next new thing is rather tiresome.

Lets Run Snobs Have No Self Awareness.. wrote:

semihaze wrote:

8:54.18 at BU Season Opener

— school record

— u20 american junior record

And the vultures at Lets Run who want everyone to fail go home devastated.

Great job Katelyn!

spot on comment

Speaking about things that are tiresome...

astro wrote:

Speaking about things that are tiresome...

funny how these trolls now arent contented of a u20 record after they predicted katelyn to not even PR again

lmao, trolls

So tired of the hobby jogger trolls on these forums. Probably the same people who wrote off Nico last week after his 11th place finish, only to be disappointed by another U20 record and PR. Whoops

Well nobody is dumb enough to compare her to Moo. One is a good college runner who would get lapped in a 3k by Hasan while the other is the best in the world.

jolly rodger wrote:

Would be far more impressed if she ran 1.55 like two other 19 year olds did this year, or its equivalent for 3000m (much faster than 8.54).

I would be more impressed if she healed the sick and walked on water, but that doesn't mean I can't also be impressed with lesser accomplishments.

Not much faster than the high school record though right?

Reflects well on the program... it will be interesting to see if anyone else can make improvements like the 4Runners for NC State in yesterday's meet, if someone else can step up like those girls they will be unstoppable. Starliper, Brooke rouber, Savanna Shaw, and that girl from New Zealand, could do it as well

She has the high school record, 9:01. I would say 8:54 is significantly lower. Seems like a laudable accomplishment. But if people want to compare it to the 100, or 200 or 400, or 800, or some other measure, ok.

Too much too soon wrote:

Well nobody is dumb enough to compare her to Moo. One is a good college runner who would get lapped in a 3k by Hasan while the other is the best in the world.

Yeah but distance running is very different from 400 or 800m Runner especially for women. It's basically impossible for a woman to be a world-class distance Runner at 18 or 20 or even 22, while plenty of girls who are as young as 16 can have a chance to compete at the world-class level in sprints. Not sure what the youngest age is but definitely a big difference , it's not really comparable.

That is false. I suggest you compare the 800-1500-5k-10k top 10 lists and you will be shocked.

astro wrote:

She has the high school record, 9:01. I would say 8:54 is significantly lower. Seems like a laudable accomplishment. But if people want to compare it to the 100, or 200 or 400, or 800, or some other measure, ok.

Actually Alexa Ephraimson has the high school record 9:00.16

And Mary Cain’s 2-mile high school record converts to even better: 8:56-high for 3000m.

Too much too soon wrote:

That is false. I suggest you compare the 800-1500-5k-10k top 10 lists and you will be shocked.

Name any distance Runner who has been world class under 20 years old? In the 3K or greater distance, especially American we're it's tougher to lie about your age

For example a thing Mu... set the U20 and overall 600m American record at 17.... while the hs distance records are not within 40 or 50 seconds of American record 5k..... name a top American 5k female distance runner wh did it under 24???