Damn.
Damn.
One of the best NCAA performances ever especially considering it was a solo effort. If she can hold from until September, should could potentially content for a medal at worlds
Fat Ass wrote:
Damn.
I just hoped they didn't peak her for NCAA. When Pamela Kosegi went for the 5/10 double I figured Doris was the reason why. I thought she could run sub 9 minutes later in the year but maybe later in the year she's heading for close to dub 8:50.
Lemngole's coach just revealed THAT last year they decided to train her to be a medalist at 2025 Worlds and that was one of their main focus.
1. 2025 World medal
2. Kenyan Trials
3. NCAA title
4. Correct small form/technique errors
Black paper!
No one saw this coming
I think she'll medal at Worlds this year. Very impressive to do that solo with no rabbits. Raised her game a level.
Nothing quite as inspiring as watching a 23 year old Kenyan sophomore, who I am sure is a clean all the other Kenyans (lol), destroy an ncaa record. Unless it was watching Hallaway, another remarkable late bloomer who discovered elite ability at 23 years of age, also breaking the old ncaa record in coming in second. Inspiration incarnate.
For the final two laps it was obvious she was going under 9 minutes. Somehow the commentators weren't as animated as they should have been. Larra Overton didn't figure it out until after Doris crossed the line. I thought she would be shouting the time throughout the final lap.
This is such a necessary jolt to this event, just like Summer McIntosh tinkering with the 800 has shaken up female distance swimming. Year after year the NCAA steeplechase standards have been crap. Even with the improvement in recent years it's still been outright crap. If it requires a Kenyan import to perk things up, I'm all for it.
Until Kenya gets their rampant drug abuse and birth certificates under control every Kenyan should be suspect. If I was a Kenyan and clean I would be pissed with the association.
Awsi Dooger wrote:
For the final two laps it was obvious she was going under 9 minutes. Somehow the commentators weren't as animated as they should have been. Larra Overton didn't figure it out until after Doris crossed the line. I thought she would be shouting the time throughout the final lap.
This is such a necessary jolt to this event, just like Summer McIntosh tinkering with the 800 has shaken up female distance swimming. Year after year the NCAA steeplechase standards have been crap. Even with the improvement in recent years it's still been outright crap. If it requires a Kenyan import to perk things up, I'm all for it.
The fact she went thru 2000 right around 6:00 seems to have been missed by them or being 6:38 with 2 laps to go and clicking off 69 and 71 second laps for her previous 800.
What would she do if she was drowning in oxygen?
Building up to exciting championship racing coming soon!
astro wrote:
Nothing quite as inspiring as watching a 23 year old Kenyan sophomore, who I am sure is a clean all the other Kenyans (lol), destroy an ncaa record. Unless it was watching Hallaway, another remarkable late bloomer who discovered elite ability at 23 years of age, also breaking the old ncaa record in coming in second. Inspiration incarnate.
Youre brilliant,and hilarious. And probably right....
Doris went to professional running camps in high school, and she spent a year on the pro circuit before coming to NCAA’s. She doesn’t have crazy second wind at end of races and always looks exhausted at end of races. I think that sub-15 mark before college was on a short course. Does not have suspicious progression of times. Has always been outstanding and has improved incrementally.
MontereyBay wrote:
Doris went to professional running camps in high school, and she spent a year on the pro circuit before coming to NCAA’s. She doesn’t have crazy second wind at end of races and always looks exhausted at end of races. I think that sub-15 mark before college was on a short course. Does not have suspicious progression of times. Has always been outstanding and has improved incrementally.
You can't say that....
astro wrote:
Nothing quite as inspiring as watching a 23 year old Kenyan sophomore, who I am sure is a clean all the other Kenyans (lol), destroy an ncaa record. Unless it was watching Hallaway, another remarkable late bloomer who discovered elite ability at 23 years of age, also breaking the old ncaa record in coming in second. Inspiration incarnate.
LHL was 4th in the NCAA and 8th at USAs two years ago. Last year at age 22 she ran the Olympic standard. You already know this. Calling her a "late bloomer" at 23 is an intentional lie to support your false narrative.
I'll say it again. LHL ran a 4:41 mile 8 years ago this month.
She ran 9:41 in 2023. Also 22+11 months. Quite the progression. Yes, I know all about it.
astro wrote:
She ran 9:41 in 2023. Also 22+11 months. Quite the progression. Yes, I know all about it.
She ran 9:31 in 2023 at USAs so 22 seconds in 24 months.
Any comment on 3rd place Napoleon's 37 second improvement in 12 months?
The steeplechase is historically the weakest discipline. That said, going from 9:41 at the age of a covid senior to running faster than the old ncaa record seems....odd. That is not a younger runner developing in college. That type of improvement would be curious in itself. But then at nearly 23 she developed the ability to run in the very low 15s, then post-23 ran sub-15, then just missed the ncaa record in the 5000m along with a gaggle of Kenyans. That is a Red Flag seemingly. I think there is absolutely a doping conspiracy centered around BYU, but just a sign of the times. Like I said, once we had Valby prancing around the track breaking records with laughable ease, and a cadre of foreign mercenaries and Kenyan pros with all their sordid baggage, the holier than thou, "but its perfectly logical" act gets old. It isn't. All the retconning and gerryrigging wont change it.
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