Shalane is slow!!!

I have to agree with you there but it's not Shalane's fault that nobody wanted to push the pace early.

we'll see what happens when you two have a showdown in the Spring. wooo

Her debut was faster than mine!!

Shalane will smash Kara and the rest of the field at the US Olympic trials! Shalane is just a tougher competitor hands down and Kara will be left in tears.

This was a perfect race situation for Shalane. She was not prepared to run an entire marathon. We saw that in how Bairu and Nelson fared. She had the ability to jog for a half marathon and it shortened the race. She still had a difficult time over the last 5k.

Right, so Shalane get the props for coming in second although it was a slow azz time and Kara gets hated on left and right but she battled harder and came in 3rd??? That's BS!!!

8/10

2:25:53 vs. 2:28:40 numbers don't lie jerk!

dreamin wrote:

Shalane will smash Kara and the rest of the field at the US Olympic trials! Shalane is just a tougher competitor hands down and Kara will be left in tears.

Although Kara's time was more impressive, I wouldn't say she "battled harder"--it was more like she clung to Paula for as long as she could. I believe she was out of contention for the win at an earlier stage in the race than Shalane.

I do not believe that Shalane will make the US Marathon team unless she changes coaches. She currently will lose to Kara and Davila and Magdalena.

That's not true Kara was in the final three with less than 1 mile to go....Shalane got dropped around mile 24!!

Kidane out wrote:

Although Kara's time was more impressive, I wouldn't say she "battled harder"--it was more like she clung to Paula for as long as she could. I believe she was out of contention for the win at an earlier stage in the race than Shalane.

That is such a stupid prediction. I mean, seriously.

Goucher made her marathon debut at the New York City Marathon on November 2, 2008. She finished in third place in a time of 2:25:53 becoming the first American on the podium since Anne Marie Lauck was third in 1994.

Placed third in the 2009 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:32:25.

Goucher finished tenth in the marathon at the 2009 World Championships with a time of 2:27:48.

Shalane is such a hobby jogger!!

Great job Nate wrote:

This was a perfect race situation for Shalane. She was not prepared to run an entire marathon. We saw that in how Bairu and Nelson fared. She had the ability to jog for a half marathon and it shortened the race. She still had a difficult time over the last 5k.

Kara was down by 23 seconds at 35k, 1 minute 24 seconds at 40k, and almost 2 minutes at the finish. She was much tighter with the final 3 in Boston than in NYC.

Oh that's right I had the races confused...still think Kara performed better than Shalane

Kidane out wrote:

Kara was down by 23 seconds at 35k, 1 minute 24 seconds at 40k, and almost 2 minutes at the finish. She was much tighter with the final 3 in Boston than in NYC.

no wonder you felt good until the end you hobby jogger!!!

Great job Nate wrote:

This was a perfect race situation for Shalane. She was not prepared to run an entire marathon. We saw that in how Bairu and Nelson fared. She had the ability to jog for a half marathon and it shortened the race. She still had a difficult time over the last 5k.

If you review Bill Rodger's logs, you may come away somewhat surprised with the simplicity of his multi-year build-up before he started winning the majors; consistant long mileage in doubles was typical. Add in HG's(?) comment that it takes 2-3 years to (properly) transition up to the marathon, would lead me to suggest that possibly a singular focus on going long is warranted (rather than trying to still compete in the 10kat the games as well), if one of these competitors wishes to excel at the longer distance in 2012.

Genes are not enuf wrote:

I do not believe that Shalane will make the US Marathon team unless she changes coaches. She currently will lose to Kara and Davila and Magdalena.

You mean go back to Cook? (joke). She seems to be on-track in her progression to the longer distance, and nothing in her pereformance today would suggest she otherwise. She probably needs to be patiently logging some big miles, in lieu of 'excessive' overspeed work, with the occasional Igloi, shorter interval session to maintain neuromusculature turn-over.