Athing Mu is about to have a season like Henry Rono in 1981

Running isn't a 'sport'

Rono's 15:xx 5000 should have been teleported into the women's sub 15.

They should have set the wavelight to Rono's 15:xx and chicked him in the girls-only Rono hunt

excuse me, I guess I meant women's sub 14, in which case it would be a girls LAPPING Rono contest. Quite a few of them could lap 15:40. He would have hit the bell at around 14:30.

I don't think Mu has sucked anywhere near that bad

What one runner does has no connection with what any other may do. The only indicator of where Mu is is that a former Olympic champion came a distant last at Prefontaine.

There are no parallels between Athing Mu and Henry Rono, obvious or imaginary.

One was a drunk, the other is dealing mental stuff (nobody knows exactly what). Completely different

It’s more Ricky Bobby than Henry Romo.

She already has the foreign rival, the underdog athlete enthusiast as a spouse, and looked like she was on fire in last place.

she needs to run the 8 blindfolded, chased by a cougar or mountain lion. That’ll get her sorted.

hold my beer on this one

if Mu were on the Sause, that would explain everything..

Funny, I never thought that she’d run a steeple or 10,000…

sure Kersey had her "prepare" with steeple and 10k runs, you have to ease them back, like spring training baseball injury or whatever he said.

i'd have had her run 400s, like a 53 opener, then a 52, and work to a 51 high or something,

with some volume along side. and a 600m time trial once you get some kind of 400 speed going.

never a jog race or whatever that was for "prep"

never the less, at least she got out the gate.

she should race every weekend, to get back, every weekend

If you think those 1500s/3000s/5000s were "jogs" for Mu, you don't know the sport.

A neat thing about Kersee is that he is one of the world's more successful coaches, while you have achieved nothing of note in the same realm.

He may in fact be "one of the world's more successful coaches" but it's looking more and more he is coming up empty with Mu.

I almost do not want to comment the 800 meter lady is a world Olympian holder do some of you want to put her on a treadmill

I met Henry Rono at U of O library he was attired in a double breasted suit and a gold watch with chain I thought he was a diplomat and then realized he was Henry Rono

junk food and cheese burgers a steady diet at Pullman my favorite story finished 9th in a club race my friend was closing fast you were closing fast then to top it off a round of drinks at Luckys Dive Bar

World records winner of African Commonwealth NCAa championships should we dig him out of his grave and put him on a treadmill

Rono has one race 16’+ that spring. I think it was his opener somewhere back in MI

Probably the only athlete to go from 16 to 13 in six months.

I am like you much more positive about Mu-N than most of the rest of the posters. The abuse and negativity about Mu on this site is disgusting to me. I hope she never sees it. Her career would be amazing if she stopped now. The very folks who write about talent going away somehow dump on Athing more than nearly anyone else. I hope she shows the haters up or goes off to enjoy a non-running life or, ideally, both.

I don’t think you would be qualified to be making even these assessments, and I think that of course there could be some parallels between these two, even the fact that both were immensely talented is a parallel, but I would agree that this would lead to “so what” as a response.