Barringer: "The race isn't going to matter in the long run."

no race really matters. this is all for fun. chill out dude. pull the stick out of your butt

Explain to me how some school race matters in the long term career of a pretty much world class pro-athlete?

To be honest who even cares about Barringer. I dont want this to turn into an attention seeking from her.

That's not the point; pre-race she clearly stated how important this race was for her to win. She even went as far as to say throughout her years in College when did she ever speak about winning a 1500M or steeplechase championship, she didn't, but just her dream of winning an NCAA Div I XC title

Now it doesn't matter because she didn't win! How contradictory is that! Bit of a hypocrit if you ask me

Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe after this race she realized that it wasn't as a big of a deal as she had made it out to be. It's not wrong to realize you were wrong and change your mind.

This reminds me of 1999 when Jean van de Velde lost the British Open by carding a triple bogey on 18. Afterwards he tried to downplay one of the most colossal chokes in professional sports history by claiming it was just a tournament.

Okay Jean. Whatever you say.

Piece of Ship wrote:

I dont want this to turn into an attention seeking from her.

WTF?????

Ms. Contradiction wrote:

That's not the point; pre-race she clearly stated how important this race was for her to win. She even went as far as to say throughout her years in College when did she ever speak about winning a 1500M or steeplechase championship, she didn't, but just her dream of winning an NCAA Div I XC title

Now it doesn't matter because she didn't win! How contradictory is that! Bit of a hypocrit if you ask me

And you're a LOT of an illiterate, if you ask me.

Her accomplishments to date already out weigh a victory in this race and she assumes her accomplishments in the future will be even greater.

That's why this one race doesn't matter in the long run.

And you're a LOT of an illiterate, if you ask me.

On what basis do you suggest this?

On April 5, 1993, at Michigan's second consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game, Webber infamously called a time-out with 11 seconds left in the game when his team, down 73-71, did not have any remaining, resulting in a technical foul that effectively clinched the game for North Carolina. The game marked the end of Webber's acclaimed two year collegiate basketball career.

i would have believed her if she said this directly after the race, but no.

If it wasnt that big of a deal why did she come back to college??

She cannot be labeled as the greatest ncaa runner with out that ncaa xc crown. Even Favor has one.

COLOSSAL FAIL for someone of her pedigree.

Favor does not have a XC crown. Sorry dude.

Jesus, you people are amazing. "No heart?" Are we going to ignore everything that was accomplished prior to Monday?

I'm kind of hoping you're all not the way you come across on here.

It is a race. It was pretty cool that before the race she was open enough to just say how much it mattered to her. Yeah she was confident, but any runner knows that someday, you'll have the worst race of her life. Another day you'll have the best race of your life. Those two days and all the days in between... you're still just yourself. I think it is refreshing to see her pick herself up and gain some balanced perspective on this. Really, what do people want to see her do? Sit at home and cry? Go around pouting ruin a holiday week for all of her friends and family (like so many other runners will do)? Then everyone would just be on here talking about how she is a cry baby.

I think so often runners get tunnel vision into this world where only running matters. That is so unhealthy and gets people into such ruts. Props to Jenny for demonstrating that when bad things happen, you try to understand why it happened, accept it, and then move on. I hope that more runners have the same type of response to a bad race.

She owes more than that to her team. If I was her teammate, I'd be pissed.

"...isn't going to matter..." !?

To who?! Maybe to her individually but her team deserved better. She's got teammates that will never accomplish what she can/will accomplish and do not have her talent (She did not give her best. She sacrificed her Gift!). She owed it to them and to every person who doesn't have her talent and yet refuses to pity themselves because they aren't going to be a champion.

I think the thought of her team's needs kicked in and that is when she decided to kick like she did. Her dramatics were selfish and she tried to save face by running hard to the finish. Too little, too late..... for the race and her teammates

She should take Chris Derrick's approach just a few minutes after losing....

Derrick: I'm disappointed. We bombed.

Reporter: Disappointed?! You finished third!

Derrick: I was talking about the team...

great white hype wrote:

Um, OK. What race really does, then? What does this even mean?

It's not very hard to figure out.

interview was full of excuses. are you telling me that there weren't any other girls out there that wasn't under "stress"? you can place stress on yourself if you're placing first or simply trying to be your team's 5th runner. you don't have to tell the audience 45 times that you "blacked out" or was "lucid" or "not with it"... I got ya. you're trying to save face by giving reasons that would support that dramatic mid-race collapse.

i still would bet money that you'd own any of those girls in the race on a different day. i just wish you would have owned up to it.

Really? She "sacrificed her gift?" Herein lies the problem with anonymous message boards. Not only do you have stupid people. You have stupid people who can speak in nothing but cliches. Jenny is one of the bright spots in our sport, and it's been disappointing to come on here and see her being lambasted by a bunch of people who can't even begin to understand what it takes to compete at that level.