I can't believe Christin Wurth-Thomas slashed over 11 seconds of her 3000m personal best and briefly held the world lead with her 8:43 indoors and no love for the lady. She won Tyson 3000m by over 30 seconds. Guess when she breaks the AR 1500m outdoors and medal at Worlds that won't be much either.
I'm faster than her that's why.
yeah man i saw the results yesterday i thought it was an amazing performance
a few razorbacks rabbited for her but she def is in great shape right now
if there were an indoor worlds this yr i'd imagine she could def medal if not gold in the 3k. watch out for some fast 1500s and 5ks from this former ladyback
It's pretty sad when I read about a performance like this for the first time in a local paper and not letsrun. (true story)
Bobby Gordon is her agent, right?
That pretty much sums it up. She needs some better PR.
hopefully she can run the swedish indoor 3k on february 22nd, i heard flanagan is running, hopefully they can both get personal best's.
as for her not getting recognition, she is one of the USA's excellent 1500 meter runners along with pearce, simpson, rowbury, uceny and more that has made the USA the top country in the world the last few years in the womens 1500 and she has broke 4 for the 1500 the last 2 years in a row, it has not gone unnoticed.
alfonz juck had an article yesterday on her after her excellent performance.
Some of us were in Seattle, so we didn't see the Arkansas meet. But I saw Christin's result mentioned (barely) on letsrun yesterday. There were also some pretty good sprint results in Fayetteville, including Jeff Demps.
Never mind that Christin has probably a better chance of medaling than Tim Nelson, Alan Webb, Garrett Heath, or any of the other people running in Seattle, except maybe Chris Solinsky. Or that Christin had the 5th fastest time in the world in the 1500 last year, and that was tops among a strong USA contingent.
There wasn't anyone from Oregon running in Fayetteville, so it didn't count.
strictly anonymous wrote:
Bobby Gordon is her agent, right?
Not for many years.
Christin's solo 3000m run made her the 7th fastest U.S female indoors ahead of Kara Goucher, Shannon Rowbury, and Mary Slaney. Congrats Christin on such a huge PB and look forward to an outstanding outdoors!
What's the equivilant time for a male athlete indoors?
8-43
If she was from the Suburds of Chicago unstead of small town illinois, letsrun would light like a christmas tree!
i remember watching her a few years in a row at Footlocker, battling people like, i believe, erin sullivan. christin sure has been able to remain (and increase) her competitiveness on the national (and now world) level for a long time. i think that is incredibly impressive.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
What's the equivilant time for a male athlete indoors?
mercier tables give a women's 8 43 = 7:37 for a male
8:43
ukathleticscoach wrote:
What's the equivilant time for a male athlete indoors?
probably because she was rabbited to a world best that was bested less than 24 hours later by 2 women (with 2 more less than a second off wurth's time) in a tactical affair
probably because women's running isn't as competitive at the world state, and it's only february and therefore only a matter of time before an ethiopian knocks another 10 seconds off
LoveChristinWurth wrote:
I can't believe Christin Wurth-Thomas slashed over 11 seconds of her 3000m personal best and briefly held the world lead with her 8:43 indoors and no love for the lady.
It was a great run, but her wold world leader lasted less than 24 hours. Mercy Njoroge of Kenya ran 8:42.75 the next day in Karlsruhe.
So you guys think 8:43 3000m for a women is better than a 17 year old running 12:53? You guys are insane....
Actually only one razorback (S. Brown) rabbited and only for about 900m. She was completely alone the rest of the way and looked awesome.