Great career but I hate to say it. She looks like she no longer is a contender at the World level.
Great career but I hate to say it. She looks like she no longer is a contender at the World level.
Nobody is a contender in a fast paced steeple. The top women run 8:50s. We only ever have a chance in slow races. When all the women make their water jumps and stay on their feet, we never truly have a medal contender in a loaded field.
Her choice, but she can probably make the Paris Olympics in 2 years if she wants to. Could have been the highest place American today (and she won the national title) if she didn't try hanging with the big guns.
People age and get slower. It happens to everyone, eventually…Unless you’re a female Jamaican sprinter that “naturally” defies the laws of nature.
I think so, but I was glad to see her take a risk this evening rather than playing it safe and finishing a few forgettable places higher.
Emma thought she was in 8:50 shape
buzzcolorado wrote:
Emma thought she was in 8:50 shape
She is at 60 degrees.. Heat is her Kryptonite
buzzcolorado wrote:
Her choice, but she can probably make the Paris Olympics in 2 years if she wants to. Could have been the highest place American today (and she won the national title) if she didn't try hanging with the big guns.
If you can continue to make US teams, I don't think you should retire. Once Jenny missed the US team, she retired. Same with Nick Symmonds. Same with Allyson Felix this year (yes, technically, she was "on the team"). Emma should make the Budapest 2023 and Paris 2024 teams for sure. After that, we'll see.
unless she can run 8:50s she will never medal again.
but still looks to be the top american.
buzzcolorado wrote:
Emma thought she was in 8:50 shape
No f'in way she was an any better shape than 9:05 (and I'm being charitable).
Peak Emma as well as peak Frerichs can both contend with an 8:50's pace lol
Besides Courtney Frerichs. She can run 8:57 and is pretty gutsy in terms of going with the leaders. However, I didn't expect her to do well tonight because of her low iron and celiac. Speaking from personal experience, low iron is very hard to come back from. I think under the circumstances she did well.
It sounds like she thought she prepared well for the race. There aren't any guarantees.
She took a calculated risk to try to go for a medal. It didn't work out. If she ran an even pace and finished 5th, she may have always wondered what if....
Probably the first 1K took too much out of her. They were flying the first part of the race.
Her analysis is rediculous. She is older and slower.
Texas Roadhouse wrote:
Her analysis is rediculous. She is older and slower.
I generally like Emma but I agree her analysis was a bit odd — she said they hadn’t done nearly as much fast or hard work and thought stacking consistent and easier work would amount to the same fitness.
Feeling “good” for long blocks of training doesn’t equate to being super fit. I’m surprised she thinks that at this point in her career (of course she knows her body better than anyone, but still odd).
The other obvious factor is that the steeple was always a weaker event but now that women with world class flat times are moving to it, it’s a lot harder for a mediocre flat runner to compete.
It happens wrote:
People age and get slower. It happens to everyone, eventually…Unless you’re a female Jamaican sprinter that “naturally” defies the laws of nature.
That is nonsense. Emma is 31 and that is not an age where you decline already as a middle distance runner. She said she struggled a lot getting back after Tokyo. She took time off to let her body rest etc. To me it just seems a case of training for so long for so many years she needs an extended break and a reset.
The barriers should higher
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