Tatyana Pozdnyakova is fast and old.
Please explain how a woman in her late forties can run sub 2:30 mulitiple times as well as a bunch of crazy fast times for a master woman.
Has she ever tested positive for anything? If she is using something, when will the ill effects take hold?
Her last three years races can be found below
I'm going on a limb here...she does it because she can.
Look at her 1500 PR. It's faster than the AR. Talent, maybe?
I agree-talent and training.Not everyone is on something.
Christ, this woman is goddamn 49!!!!!
A relevant question:
When did this guy became a woman?
I know Tatyana and have met her husband, and her son. I believe her husband is a physical therapist. That may have helped her stay at the top of her game for so long.
OK, historians might want to verify, but didn't she serve a drug suspension in the early 80's!??
I know she had the Houston Marathon title taken away at least once due to drug positive, was it ephedrine? Seems like there was another positive somewhere else, too.
I want to know how the woman runs 16:40 for 5k, 34+ for 10k, 57+ for 10 miles and a 1:15 half yet runs sub 2:30 for the marathon. It screams doping - at selective races.
Her times over the shorter distances DO measure up against one another - and would point to a marathon of 2:40-2:45, yet she cranks out sub 2:30's like a stroll in the park. Yes, she did run well over the shorter distances years ago, and slowed accordingly over them as well. If she was such a phenom her times would be blazing across the board. She's run several marathons at faster paces per mile than 10k's run only weeks before. Her marathon performances are jaw dropping to say the least but nonetheless raise some obvious suspicions.
Howabout the 1:18 at the Naples half 4 weeks before her 2:29
at LA? then she goes from a 25:56 8k at Shamrock to
a 17:05 and 36:22 5/10k just a few weeks later. Somethings not right or all us weekend warrior 17 and 36 guys would all be running 2:30s or faster.
01.19.02
Bermuda
Bermuda International 10k
37:37 1st Masters
01.27.02
Naples, FL
Naples Daily News Half Marathon.
1:17:53 1st Masters
03.03.02
Los Angeles,CA
City of Los Angeles Marathon
2:30:26 2nd Overall
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Look at those times. She warms up for a 2:30 marathon
with a damn near 38 minute 10k? Something is obviously not right. That EPO has gotta be some good $hit.
Ever hear of using races as training runs? Going into a race on very tired legs? She TARGETS the big ones and uses the other races to get her there. She goes into the big races fresh and ready. It seems so obvious to me.
Yes she runs fast but she is also much younger than she says. Also whats with the hair dye job that so many of these girls are having. mostly red. I hear that the dye can get in the body some how and be used as a masking agent on dope tests.
Birdie wrote:
Ever hear of using races as training runs?
Yes, I have. But runners who use a 10K as a training run don't run that race 20 seconds per mile *slower* than their eventual marathon pace.
A 2:30 marathon is the equivalent of about a 32-minute 10K. If she had run a 34-minute 10K (which is still pretty inconsistent), I would say: OK...training run. But a 37:30 10k? Something isn't right here.
-Brent
mljt wrote:
I know she had the Houston Marathon title taken away at least once due to drug positive, was it ephedrine? Seems like there was another positive somewhere else, too.
Anyone have any info on this?
She's AWESOME!! Too many athletes set limits based on age--obviously she hasn't. She probably doesn't read these message boards that scream: WE CAN"T, WE"RE SLOW, HE/SHE IS TOO OLD, OUR GENES ARE INFERIOR!
I would argue that some of those races are training runs however when money is on the line, this is how you make your living and your coming in as third master when you could be first overall AND top master it just doesn't make any sense. While elites may train through a race here its NOT something you ordinarily see as they focus on training at altitude, track work, tempo runs, triple digit weeks
and everything else that makes them as fast at they are.
They AREN'T concerned about running a 17 minute 5k and losing in their age group. My guess is she uses something
that can be used on a race-specific basis. Whether its turtle soup, that hornet juice stuff or some kind of drug it does seem painfully obvious that somethings not right.
she'saman wrote:
Somethings not right or all us weekend warrior 17 and 36 guys would all be running 2:30s or faster.
It is perfectly possible that she is simply both very well suited to and very well trained for the marathon. This may shrink her range of paces to a much narrower point than is the case for "weekend warrior 17 and 36 guys".
From my own experience, for example, I know that when I was in top marathon shape last year, I found it difficult to run repeat miles at 5:00, but could hold 5:15s just about forever. As a result, if I had tried to run a 10K it would've looked way slow compared to my marathon time.
any more info wrote:
mljt wrote:I know she had the Houston Marathon title taken away at least once due to drug positive, was it ephedrine? Seems like there was another positive somewhere else, too.
Anyone have any info on this?
The drug positive that cost her the Houston title was a stimulant; ephedrine sounds right. That was back in about 1997. (She returned to the Houston Marathon in '99 and won.) I also thought that there was another drug positive at some point in her career, but I'm not sure about that.