It's been about 10 months since her medial meniscus tear. She was posting on her Strava but in the last few months her run posts was been less. It seems that she isn't making a gradual progression in terms of volume unless she is electing not to post anything. Her last post was a month ago. Any info about her status?
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Track Fan 1979 wrote:
It's been about 10 months since her medial meniscus tear. She was posting on her Strava but in the last few months her run posts was been less. It seems that she isn't making a gradual progression in terms of volume unless she is electing not to post anything. Her last post period was a month ago. Any info about her status?
She’s only 26, so no, she’s not retiring.
Track Fan 1979 wrote:
It's been about 10 months since her medial meniscus tear. She was posting on her Strava but in the last few months her run posts was been less. It seems that she isn't making a gradual progression in terms of volume unless she is electing not to post anything. Her last post period was a month ago. Any info about her status?
Freudian slip? Injury is a good time to get pregnant.
Track Fan 1979 wrote:
It's been about 10 months since her medial meniscus tear. She was posting on her Strava but in the last few months her run posts was been less. It seems that she isn't making a gradual progression in terms of volume unless she is electing not to post anything. Her last post period was a month ago. Any info about her status?
She's not retired. She has a loooong road ahead of her for recovery. Her injury was very serious and it heals very slowly. It wasn't just a tear, it was worse than that.
MAYBE she will be able to be competitive next year. Maybe not until the year after that. Maybe never. Who knows? But she won't be competitive this year. So don't expect too much in the way of exciting Instagram updates from her this year.
The longer you're away from the battle, the less likely you'll ever come back to your old self. You only need only to look at another Wisconsin alum, Solinsky, to see how hard it is to come back to the top after a devastating injury.
And while she's months, maybe years, away form returning to some form of her old self....there are wolves at the door. Competition is tougher than ever (and getting tougher) for those elusive pro contracts. She is burning through whatever latent fitness she's had from decades of training.
This doesn't even account for her mental side of things. Will she ever regain the confidence? All it takes is for one to see the super fast times at BU to realize the wolves are coming.
Dudewhat? wrote:
She is burning through whatever latent fitness she's had from decades of training.
Decades? She started training at age 6?
Dudewhat? wrote:
The longer you're away from the battle, the less likely you'll ever come back to your old self. You only need only to look at another Wisconsin alum, Solinsky, to see how hard it is to come back to the top after a devastating injury.
And while she's months, maybe years, away form returning to some form of her old self....there are wolves at the door. Competition is tougher than ever (and getting tougher) for those elusive pro contracts. She is burning through whatever latent fitness she's had from decades of training.
This doesn't even account for her mental side of things. Will she ever regain the confidence? All it takes is for one to see the super fast times at BU to realize the wolves are coming.
Yeah, she may not have made the decision to officially retire but she's effectively done. Another name in that vein is Justyn Knight. Or Donovan Brazier. Might as well stop asking about any and all of them.
I'm jealous of all the posters on Letsrun lately who seem to have never dealt with a long lasting injury themselves or had a friend who did, and therefore can't understand how that can happen to a pro runner.
Sometimes runners get injured and it takes a long time to get healthy again, and that recovery doesn't always go smoothly or predictably.
I agree. The theme is woven throught many topics. Talent. High mileage. Average ability. People don't understand that most get injured and are not built to run.
some pro on a sports team, there may or may not be a roster tool to deal with your injury. so you go off books, maybe even more than a year. you still get paid. you have to go see the doctors and try to train within medical limits and such. you retire when you want to give up trying.
i see this that way. she probably still has a sponsor. she's maybe pulling down some money. it probably helps family finances. and she can keep trying to get well, use sponsor resources to do so. she retires and presumably her sponsors are out of the picture and she better have an income, and she's on her own for recovery.
i personally wouldn't want to post my workouts online -- it's kind of hovering surveillance type stuff like trump/elon wanting to know 5 things you've done this week -- but among the compliant i'd see it as a signal you're well and open to scrutiny.
your very post speaks to why one might not want strava involved when in extended rehab or dealing with reaggravation or injury issues. it invites a bunch of questions. are you hurt. are you done. what is wrong. and it's not just whether you are well or not, but also sometimes the sense that maybe less stress might help you feel better.
and yet it provokes the what's up response anyway, if you were playing along before. which is why i wouldn't do it.
Track Fan 1979 wrote:
It's been about 10 months since her medial meniscus tear. She was posting on her Strava but in the last few months her run posts was been less. It seems that she isn't making a gradual progression in terms of volume unless she is electing not to post anything. Her last post period was a month ago. Any info about her status?
She was posting on Strava until her lack of progress was called out on letsrun threads. Jogging 2-4 miles every other day and doing elliptical in between. Now it’s crickets. Hard to believe it got any better since
Saw video of her recently. She’s definitely running and doing some x-training as well (swimming). She’s even running (and winning) some low key races as well.
Found it:
Dudewhat? wrote:
The longer you're away from the battle, the less likely you'll ever come back to your old self. You only need only to look at another Wisconsin alum, Solinsky, to see how hard it is to come back to the top after a devastating injury.
And while she's months, maybe years, away form returning to some form of her old self....there are wolves at the door. Competition is tougher than ever (and getting tougher) for those elusive pro contracts. She is burning through whatever latent fitness she's had from decades of training.
This doesn't even account for her mental side of things. Will she ever regain the confidence? All it takes is for one to see the super fast times at BU to realize the wolves are coming.
Who granted you know it all status. Most likely she will be back. Most likely she is keeping her life private
Running for Dathan is dangerous. If it works you run fast, but 85% will be destroyed.
5 things "you" personally have done this week? Are you a federal gov't employee specifically in the executive branch, and not in the legislative or judicial branch? I'm guessing not......but.......an employer asking an employee: What have you actually accomplished throughout the whole week? You'd have to be pretty brainwashed to even contemplate whether that's unreasonable.
For those who don't know there's two types of meniscus tear, because you can divide the meniscus into one half that gets alot of blood flow vs the other which gets very limited blood flow.
If you get a tear on the good blood flow side, it's a long recovery.
If you get a tear on the bad blood flow side, it's a super super long recovery.
And that's without factoring in the degree of the tear or if there were any surgery complications/re-do's needed + irritating it just from S&C (let alone running) is very common.
I know 2 people (one a runner, the other not) who have had meniscus tears and we're talking well over a year for both. As someone else pointed out, OP is talking as if they've never had to deal with a major injury before. Must be nice.
Veee Eyee Teee wrote:
some pro on a sports team, there may or may not be a roster tool to deal with your injury. so you go off books, maybe even more than a year. you still get paid. you have to go see the doctors and try to train within medical limits and such. you retire when you want to give up trying.
i see this that way. she probably still has a sponsor. she's maybe pulling down some money. it probably helps family finances. and she can keep trying to get well, use sponsor resources to do so. she retires and presumably her sponsors are out of the picture and she better have an income, and she's on her own for recovery.
i personally wouldn't want to post my workouts online -- it's kind of hovering surveillance type stuff like trump/elon wanting to know 5 things you've done this week -- but among the compliant i'd see it as a signal you're well and open to scrutiny.
your very post speaks to why one might not want strava involved when in extended rehab or dealing with reaggravation or injury issues. it invites a bunch of questions. are you hurt. are you done. what is wrong. and it's not just whether you are well or not, but also sometimes the sense that maybe less stress might help you feel better.
and yet it provokes the what's up response anyway, if you were playing along before. which is why i wouldn't do it.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted because there’s a lot of sense in this post. Definitely a good reason to keep your training in the dark.
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