She seems very satisfied with the result. Her goal coming into the race was top 3. I suspect she had a pretty good idea what she was going to run. She also said she’s not in as good of shape as she’d like to be yet.
This is the most relaxed I’ve ever seen her in an interview. She usually very guarded, but not this time.
She seems very satisfied with the result. Her goal coming into the race was top 3. I suspect she had a pretty good idea what she was going to run. She also said she’s not in as good of shape as she’d like to be yet.
This is the most relaxed I’ve ever seen her in an interview. She usually very guarded, but not this time.
Parker said this race pace was stepping down in distance, like to the mile, and a bit out of her (current) wheelhouse.
But 2:52/km (average pace she ran today) will be the same pace she will need to eventually hold for 5000m in order to run Alicia Monson’s 5000m record (14:19). Monson ran that PB three years after college, training and living full-time at altitude with On Athletic Club in Boulder, CO.
She seems very satisfied with the result. Her goal coming into the race was top 3. I suspect she had a pretty good idea what she was going to run. She also said she’s not in as good of shape as she’d like to be yet.
This is the most relaxed I’ve ever seen her in an interview. She usually very guarded, but not this time.
Parker said this race pace was stepping down in distance, like to the mile, and a bit out of her (current) wheelhouse.
But 2:52/km (average pace she ran today) will be the same pace she will need to eventually hold for 5000m in order to run Alicia Monson’s 5000m record (14:19). Monson ran that PB three years after college, training and living full-time at altitude with On Athletic Club in Boulder, CO.
Whatever Monson had to do (overtraining) to get to that level in 3 years probably cost her the rest of her career. At least she can say she’s an American record holder.
Parker said this race pace was stepping down in distance, like to the mile, and a bit out of her (current) wheelhouse.
But 2:52/km (average pace she ran today) will be the same pace she will need to eventually hold for 5000m in order to run Alicia Monson’s 5000m record (14:19). Monson ran that PB three years after college, training and living full-time at altitude with On Athletic Club in Boulder, CO.
Whatever Monson had to do (overtraining) to get to that level in 3 years probably cost her the rest of her career. At least she can say she’s an American record holder.
Monson’s knee injury was well after that PB.
Dunno if this is overtraining, but look what she was doing in high stack shoes not too long before the injury (last slide):
Whatever Monson had to do (overtraining) to get to that level in 3 years probably cost her the rest of her career. At least she can say she’s an American record holder.
Monson’s knee injury was well after that PB.
Dunno if this is overtraining, but look what she was doing in high stack shoes not too long before the injury (last slide):
I probably shouldn’t make assumptions about her training, but she obviously made a massive leap. I’m not sure how she could get there without redlining on her training. But, I honestly do not know what she was doing.
I probably shouldn’t make assumptions about her training, but she obviously made a massive leap. I’m not sure how she could get there without redlining on her training. But, I honestly do not know what she was doing.
Well then, it may be a bad assumption to think someone can’t run their current 3k pace eventually for 5k, without having to “overtrain”, after going pro and training at altitude full-time.
I probably shouldn’t make assumptions about her training, but she obviously made a massive leap. I’m not sure how she could get there without redlining on her training. But, I honestly do not know what she was doing.
Well then, it may be a bad assumption to think someone can’t run their current 3k pace eventually for 5k, without having to “overtrain”, after going pro and training at altitude full-time.
But it took Grant Fischer five years of pro training to run his collegiate 3k PB pace (2:34/km) in a 5k.
Let’s not forget her collegiate accomplishments, listed here:
Collegiate achievements
5000 meters indoor – 14:52.79 (Boston, MA 2024) NCAA record (broke record by 16 seconds; set record twice) 5000 meters: 14:52.18 (Eugene, OR 2024) NCAA record (broke record by 11 seconds) 10000 meters: 30:50.43 (Azusa, CA 2024) NCAA Record (broke record by 28 seconds) Cross Country: 18:55.2 (Charlotteville, VA 2023) NCAA Record for 6K
6 NCAA National Titles to her name, and 5 NCAA Records at the time she was in college. She won 6 consecutive national championship finals, all within the span of only one calendar year. Her margins of victory were astounding:
The best that has even been in her events she competed in. That’s quite historic (literally).
She followed up the greatest collegiate career ever by placing 4th at the Olympic Trials in the 5000m (beating a certain someone by a ridiculous 42 seconds) and placed 2nd in the 10000m to make the 2024 Olympic Team. In Paris, she took the lead with 1500m to go and ultimately placed 11th.
Now, since going pro and signing with New Balance, she’s been re-building, training, preparing and planning. Now it’s 2025 and she’s making her debut at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix and is set to run the 3000m in just about seven hours from now (to be televised on NBC and Peacock).
Valby is not going to show up after this hiatus and re-build if she isn’t ready to run very, very fast.
Jessica Hull has the meet record in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 3000m of 8:24.93 (set in 2024). Could it go down in Valby’s professional debut? What about Elle St. Pierre's 8:20.87 American Record? Maybe even Genzebe Dibaba's 8:16.60 World Record set way back in 2014?
The last time Parker Valby was at The Track @ New Balance and that gutsy move to the front in Paris
The original semi haze would be proud of this effort. Of course their praise and posting of another runner apparently spawned a lot of resentment, jealousy and disparagement among some which persists even today. Be careful, you might reap what you sow.
The OP was clearly making a mockery of the ridiculous thread started last weekend about Tuohy's race. It is mostly a copy job with Valby's stats added. Even the OP's name is appropriate. Looking at that thread, the OP "Upperstate" posted 21 times just on the first two pages alone! That is over half of the posts. Strange.
But you're right, you get what you sow. Posts like the one by Upperstate have caused a lot of people to turn against Tuohy and even moreso her "fans." They seem to be like the little kid who constantly taunts someone until that person finally fights back and then the kid runs to his mommy and cries about the "mean kid who picked on me."
So Parker is way ahead of the American 5k record at the same age.
What is the history of people being way ahead actually making it? Everyone is at a slightly different stages of development. Trying to predict who and when people will take a step forward is basically impossible.
Valby is never going to have a kick until she can run as fast as the people in front of her. A 14:50 person isn’t going to kick with a 14:30 one. Hopefully she keeps progressing and we get another 10s jump this year.