Gwen Jorgensen Pregnant

What career

Excellent news!

Like Jenny Simpson she is finished. She was never a great runner but she was a great triathlete.

Can you imagine how early she’s going to have to get to the hospital before everyone so that she can do all her drills?

Stephanie Rothstein Bruce and Keira D’amato both had incredible success coming back from second children…but to make a comeback you need to have something of a career to come back to. The “it” factor was just never there for Gwen when it came to running. If she was still doing triathlon, it would be another story, but I just don’t see her winning an Olympic gold in the marathon after this.

Honestly-why do we really care?

You tell me? you're commenting on it. You cared enough to click on a thread about her.

She already retired when they moved to boulder. Having a second child was just part of the exit plan.

So is Russian longjumper Darya Klishina

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She is a hard worker but she was never going to get far in distance running. She had a rude awakening to that when she switched from triathlons to pure running. I am genuinely interested as to how her and her husband have enough income to live in Boulder. I guess her existing sponsors do well enough for her and I suppose she's more of an influencer now than anything.

Who?

She made this announcement over a month ago. The fact that this thread just got started tells you how relevant she is to the competitive running community nowadays.

You mean May 11, over a month ago?

She probably is an influencer, probably has savings and manages money well (accounting background). She'll probably have a good job as an accountant even if things don't work out at the pro level.

A lot of wealthy people you see on social are probably hard workers, but some may have inheritances, trust fund money, etc. Esp. in the running world (in Eugene, Boulder, Austin and on both coasts).

I met a few people who live modestly but have family trust funds--you couldn't tell it by their appearance but they're set for many years (each of their sibs get a cut, too).

From my understanding, part of her reason for switching from triathlon was to find a challenge - she was so dominant as a triathlete. Maybe now she can just switch back to her dominant sport and find the challenge she was looking for? (I mean she found the challenge with running, but challenges that have a chance of success are the most engaging)

Yeah I have heard that pretty much no one under 40 is buying Boulder real estate without family money. Period.