Saw yesterday that Jordan Hasay was hucking some dubious supplements on her IG profile, thanks to a thread posted here. Literally food-grade versions of the chemicals you put in your fish tank. Said it made her breathe more easily while running, and run faster at a lower HR.
Well, she ended up deleting her post, and then eventually the supplement company deleted their post featuring her, and then LRC deleted the post calling it out.
Why not just update the thread instead of deleting? That's LRC style on MANY other topics. This feels like a personal favor to Hasay. I think it is perfectly reasonable to keep a post up about one of our sport's most visible athletes shucking something sketchy, even if they backpedaled. I think the thread on LRC, combined with this new york post article, probably helped draw attention to this sketchy issue in the first place. Burying it is sketchy as well.
I think the conversation around influencers like her sponsoring weird supplements is a good one. I'm not saying to bring back the thread (this one should suffice, if not deleted). But I'd like to discuss this incident as well as the larger trend. This is absolutely running related, and it's not based on speculation at all.
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