Are you kidding me??
unsponsored monster talent. what a run.
Are you kidding me??
unsponsored monster talent. what a run.
Not unsponsored long I bet!
She used to run for brooks beasts but is now unsponsored but that looks like it’ll change soon! Incredible run!!!
Inspring as heck!!!
Happiest 4th place finisher at the trials in a long time. So happy for her. Beating so so many full-time pros is impressive. But I think living in Phoenix helped her because she is heat adapted.
Phoenix heat is not the same as Florida heat the same way the Colorado cold is not the same as New Hampshire cold.
Monster run for Jess. 08 FL Nats Alum with my son.
the last I remember her racing a lot was at the 5/10k distance in 2018 or so for Brooks--great run!
Holy crap! According to this article, she's 41 years-old!!!
A quote from her in that article, above:
“Over the years of running all my coaches said, ‘Keep your eyes up. Reel people in slowly,’ so I just kept cranking,”
That's exactly what she did today.
She is 31 years old. That article is wrong. Heck of a race, just remaining consistent while all the chasers started to fall apart.
Unfortunately, she'll probably remain unsponsored because those opportunities continue to shrink.
Even if she doesn’t get a sponsor again, she’ll be fine. She works in advertising and makes decent money. IMO if you have a great job, making good money and have some flexibility to fit in training, that’s worth more than the sponsored scraping for scraps hustle.
She also has well-off parents and Stanford degrees. She will completely fine.
Her name takes me back to the drama of Brooks Beasts. IYKYK!
Another talent that was a casualty of Danny Mackey’s coaching. Glad she figured it out post Brooks Beasts
Agreed, she was a full time pro and has had more success training while working full time. Maybe if she could reduce her hours or something to make training a little easier, sure, but this was a massive success and sometimes changing everything around after success is a bad idea.
I am no expert on her, but would I be correct in assuming she was Nike-shod? Seemed very swoosh loyal above the waist but I couldn't see her feet.
She's one of the all-time great prep stars here in AZ(top 3 behind Dani Jones and Allie Schadler). Awesome to see her find her event.
Ironic the Brooks tagline is run happy - but Jess might have been happier home, married, living her best life working full-time and running around that.
I don't know her personally - my understanding is Brooks was such a dumpster fire when she was there. I think now they only survive on the back of Josh Kerr's achievements. I like Isaiah Harris, but feel like he's never reached his full potential under Danny.
it also hasn't been hot in phoenix for like 3 months. You lose heat adaptation at about the same rate you lose altitude adaptation. Which is like 3 to 4 weeks tops
This is not Danny’s fault. He is a solid mid distance coach. A 10k to Marathoner has no business signing with the Beasts who are an 800-1500 group.
I had this discussion last year when they were pursuing a 10k national champ.
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