When will Keely, Athing race this season?

They are scheduled to face each other, along with Moraa, at the Eugene/Pre DL on May 25. I’m confident that Hodgkinson & Moraa will be there. I hope that Mu will be as well.

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Mu will flake. Bet on it.

I hope not. That should be a great race. I like Mu but am kinda hoping to see Hodgkinson get the win. Moraa is going to be very good this year. She has raced a bunch of 400s already with a 50.57 in late March. A few weeks ago she went 1:57.96 at the Kip Keino Classic

I still can’t wrap my mind around being a pro athlete with a competition season lasting 2, maybe 3 months a year. Can you guys imagine not racing for 9 months? You grind every day for 4 hours and have nothing to look forward to…and it’s just you, Kersey, Sydney, and maybe two more athletes in your ‘group’.

I hope Mu is there. Being in the US means she is more likely to be surely? It’s the European DL that she tends to avoid.

Anyway, would love Hodgkinson to win. She needs to run her own race. She has a quicker PB than Moraa by quite a bit but Moraa’s tactics tend to get to her with the fartlek racing! I can’t wait to see what kind of form they are all in.
I actually think a race with Mu in helps Keely. Keeps the pace a bit more even.

Must be nice. What I can't believe is that someone would open their checkbook and say "let us fund this and in return you give our brand exposure" - then you actually step foot on the track like 3-4 times in that time period and look absolutely miserable when you do so.

But hey - it's a great gig if you can get it right?

There's no question about it. When all 3 are in the race Moraa never allows Hodgkinson to pass her. But when Moraa also has to deal with Mu the variables are more uncertain so Moraa sometimes lets her go.

Moraa has not proven she can run 1:55 or lower. That's her challenge this year. Mu and Hodgkinson are not going to allow Paris to become a tactical race.

I wrote it wrong. When Mu is absent, Moraa never allows Hodgkinson to get in front of her

Yes she just speeds up and then slows down. Hopefully Keely has been working on her tactics. She ran the best I’ve ever seen (and her PB I think) from the front in the Paris Diamond League last year. But she had little competition there. Yet still pushed to a 1.55.77. Though I have to admit as that was her first race of the season last year, I thought she’d go faster afterwards and she didn’t!

Moraa just gets in to her head. Keely also needs quite even splits as she doesn’t have the 400m speed. But the fact is Moraa’s PB is still a little way off both Hodgkinson and Mu.

Not to hijack but a related question: Where is Elle Purrier St. Pierre?

How is this related? Is she an 800m runner now?
Start another thread.

It's related in that we haven't heard much from her since indoors and wondering when she will race again.

You're confused. This is a Keely and Athing thread, not a "who hasn't run recently" thread.

I don't think that matters a whole lot. Who gets to control the race is very important. There're now 3 big frontrunners in Moraa, Mu and now Duguma. Duguma is in this field too. All of them are converted 400m runners. Keely is more vulnerable to a pace slow enough that it becomes about sprint speed the last 100, as opposed to rewarding overdistance strength and more even pacing. If Mu makes it hard from the gun and about overall fitness, Keely is tactically pretty savvy and has a very good kick off a fast pace. So she should root for Mu to string it out with a 56 pace and making it a 1:54-5 type race. Duguma and Moraa may struggle more to run in the pack and waste energy finding a spot. If it goes out hard but bunches into a 1:57 or 1:58 race, that is not the type of situation she wants and she might be better served just really committing to hitting the front on the backstretch.