McLaughlin definitely and I hope Mu does as well. Time for team USA to take back that 4x4 world record.
That's a tough WR. It was done at a time when almost everyone was juiced to the gills. The testing then hadn't caught up to the masking.
Yeah the WR is 3:15.17. To run 3:15.16, it would require 4 x 48.79. That’s a tall order. Could a team of Wilson, McLaughlin, Mu, and Steiner pull it off? I hope so!
Next up in the SEC W100m, I’m looking for Flannel to control her heat.💪
Flannel qualifies, but came 4h in her heat. Not great…
Flannel didn't qualify she ended up 11th. Her move from Texas wasnt the best in terms of performance. Under Edrick Floreal she was running 22.2 now she barely cracks sub 22.9
Flannel qualifies, but came 4h in her heat. Not great…
Flannel didn't qualify she ended up 11th. Her move from Texas wasnt the best in terms of performance. Under Edrick Floreal she was running 22.2 now she barely cracks sub 22.9
Does anyone have more insights into Texas's training? I know it is high volume but their improvement is unbelievable.
Truth told, Mu might be the shaky one on that relay, with start times for the W800 and W4x4 62 minutes apart. And, of course, Wilson, Steiner and Diggs have to make the team.
Now THIS is a runner worthy of the hype! Breaks her own record of 49.48 that she set indoors at NCAAs in Albuquerque.
Only US runners faster:
1) Sanya Richard-Ross 48.70
2) Valerie Briscoe 48.83
3) Chandra Cheeseborough 49.05
4) Allyson Felix 49.26
5) Jearl Miles-Clark 49.40
As Blue7 says in 18, the Soviet Union's world record was clearly run on juice. But look at the list of top 5 US: Imma give a pass to Alyson F, and maybe Sanya R-R because I don’t know about her career, but don’t the other three “top US performances of all-time” deserve an asterisk every bit as much as Marita Koch and Jarmila “Bodybuilder” K do on the world lists? Makes Wilson’s performance shine even brighter, I think.
She's also running the 400MH. Given that both finals are on the same day I would say a very strong possibility not. Final to be run in 50.00 or thereabouts.
Now THIS is a runner worthy of the hype! Breaks her own record of 49.48 that she set indoors at NCAAs in Albuquerque.
Only US runners faster:
1) Sanya Richard-Ross 48.70
2) Valerie Briscoe 48.83
3) Chandra Cheeseborough 49.05
4) Allyson Felix 49.26
5) Jearl Miles-Clark 49.40
As Blue7 says in 18, the Soviet Union's world record was clearly run on juice. But look at the list of top 5 US: Imma give a pass to Alyson F, and maybe Sanya R-R because I don’t know about her career, but don’t the other three “top US performances of all-time” deserve an asterisk every bit as much as Marita Koch and Jarmila “Bodybuilder” K do on the world lists? Makes Wilson’s performance shine even brighter, I think.
The American men have 8 of the top 10 on the all-time list. The women? The first one comes in at 9.
As Blue7 says in 18, the Soviet Union's world record was clearly run on juice. But look at the list of top 5 US: Imma give a pass to Alyson F, and maybe Sanya R-R because I don’t know about her career, but don’t the other three “top US performances of all-time” deserve an asterisk every bit as much as Marita Koch and Jarmila “Bodybuilder” K do on the world lists? Makes Wilson’s performance shine even brighter, I think.
The American men have 8 of the top 10 on the all-time list. The women? The first one comes in at 9.
But they do have 8 of the top 10 4x400 relay times.
I think the OP is referencing the excessive hype given to Tuohy. Her slow 10k got 14 pages of comments. It’s time we pay more attention to the most impressive American woman running in the NCAA today: Britton Wilson!
Big fan of Britton! I’m guessing the extra attention on Tuohy is because distance runners also compete in XC, which seems to garner just as much/if not more attention than outdoor track.
That, and most people on here seem to be invested in distance running.
You think that fully explains the number of posts/threads/usernames related to Tuohy? No, there’s a strange fanaticism affecting several incessant posters. Your typical equivalent NCAA distance star would not have garnered 14 pages of comments for running a ho hum 10k for team points.
Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because she has been a star since sophomore year of high school, just broke 4 NCAA records (three of which were set in 2009), and is easily the top female distance runner in the NCAA. People were curious about her running a 10000m at the conference meet. It is the first 10000m she ever ran. It may be her best distance when all is said and done, and if she comes back Koll's record is in major jeopardy if she focuses on it. People want to focus on the time in a race she was never going to run hard a week after the 5000m record, but what mattered is the extreme ease in which she ran it and the close.
Anyway distance running and sprinting are different sports. High school and college sprinters can run world competitive times and peak earlier. Especially on the female side distance runners don't peak until their mid to late 20s and the WR marks are so far up the EPO zone they are on a different planet than anything a college runner can hope to match. So there is an aura of mystery and projection about how a college distance athlete will progress.
At this point KT should win the Bowerman, but sprinters definitely have an edge if the criteria is world competitive times.
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Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because
astro, you are an imbecile
Tuohy gets attention because she is slow, boring distance runner in a world of even slower NCAA female runners...
Her boring 10,000 is #86 current season top list (even 2 Japanese younger girls were faster this season, one b. in 2003 was nearly a minute faster), #241 US all-time, and #1622 all-time. Tuohy's boring 5000 15:03.12 is #7 current season, 32nd US all-time and #282 all-time (while 41 U20 women ran faster times in history).
Britton's 49.40 is a world-leader by a nice margin, joint 5th US all-time and joint 30th all time.
Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because she has been a star since sophomore year of high school, just broke 4 NCAA records (three of which were set in 2009), and is easily the top female distance runner in the NCAA. People were curious about her running a 10000m at the conference meet. It is the first 10000m she ever ran. It may be her best distance when all is said and done, and if she comes back Koll's record is in major jeopardy if she focuses on it. People want to focus on the time in a race she was never going to run hard a week after the 5000m record, but what mattered is the extreme ease in which she ran it and the close.
Anyway distance running and sprinting are different sports. High school and college sprinters can run world competitive times and peak earlier. Especially on the female side distance runners don't peak until their mid to late 20s and the WR marks are so far up the EPO zone they are on a different planet than anything a college runner can hope to match. So there is an aura of mystery and projection about how a college distance athlete will progress.
At this point KT should win the Bowerman, but sprinters definitely have an edge if the criteria is world competitive times.
An American woman has never podiumed in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics or Worlds.
So even if she progresses well, we have no idea if Tuohy will ever be competitive at global competitions.
What we do know is that if she maintains her current form, Wilson could be a triple medalist at Budapest: 400m flat, 400m hurdles, and the 4x400. Meanwhile, Tuohy isn't even a guarantee to make a Worlds team.