U of Colorado investigating running program over weight management program.

ITS OVER BOULDERBROS!

Kids these days have become so soft. To become a good runner you should take weight into consideration. That means limiting your diet. If Wetmore and Co. included the advise of a trained and certified dietician I see nothing wrong here.

Obviously the former athletes were just bitter they did not have what it took to become the best of the best.

What’s gonna happen to the buffalo ranch xc course dog park?

I can't wait to hear Kara Goucher chime in on this. Get the popcorn out for it.

Actually, though Kara will sing long and loud about AlSal's butt and breast comments, we can expect her to be fully silent on this. Same for Jenny and Emma.

Nothing new...read "Running with the Buffalos," Marks quoted saying “they should look like skeletons with a condom pulled over them."

It’s high time we switch back the meaning of “toxic” to something that is chemically poisonous, not just to mean “I don’t like it”.

At best, Wetmore has/had a hamfisted understanding of weight and fueling. It's not simply 2000 kcal/day, which isn't exactly prescriptive, it's what you eat and how you eat it. Hell, an athletic trainer on staff at CU would have had a better clue about this than his own statements imply. This is why Adam Goucher had such a revival when he went to NOP, he finally got a scientific and nuanced understanding of nutrition and diet from that staff.

it's interesting this is a girl who didn't even have the credentials coming out of HS to be on an elite D1 team. Possibly, didn't have the body type, talent, or deep down grit to be D1. It's a professional sport at that level and these things matter. Idealy, information should not be shared and athletes make decisions that best help them be successful. If you want to make top 7 this is what you have to do, focus on eating correctly, ect, putting muscle on ect.

Holy cow are people serious? Newsflash, if you want to be good at distance running your weight and diet matters. Not saying to bully people, but it matters and to ignore it is limiting yourself in any athletic pursuit.

If I were a women’s XC I would never bring on walk on girls. Too much of a risk. Distance females tend to be psycho and the walk-ons will cost a coach their job.

Meant to say women’s XC coach.

I think its pretty low of runnersworld to post this the day before nattys. Its just a few kids who didn't survive the hard training at CU, its not for everyone.

Plus it says she was cut from the team-its pretty hard to get cut from a team......

Bro in trouble bro

Still boulder bro reppin the hill bro

Yeah really low blow… runnersworld should know better than to post this the day before nats. Don’t take anything away from the people who have worked hard all year to prep for the big race. Disgusted by runnerworld

You can separate how you want someone to try to look to how someone looks when they are in peak form.

In the Tour de France one year, they talked about how the cyclists would look at each other’s butts at the start of the tour and could tell who had put in the work and was fast based on a particular shape of the butt.

You shouldn’t tell runners to try and look like Wetmore described, but at the same time you can usefully recognize that that is what fast distance runners in peak form usually look like.