Will Tara Erdmann get the "A" standard?

I don't see it happening

good luck though

alanson wrote:

The odds are against her, but if she does get the "A" there's no doubt she's won the spot fair and square. On the other hand, Shalane is the only American with a solid chance to finish in the top ten, so for the others we're talking about the honorific of being selected for Worlds.

Hasay at worlds is also good for her because she'll have a chance to race against actual competition and possibly PR again. even if the leaders go out slow, it will still be fast for Hasay. And knowing Salazar, she'd be peaking for that race anyways and not this time trial.

much doubt.

id rather see hastings go.

i love the OPJ, but hastings is a much harder working athlete and has been the 4th person 1 too many times.

Love both the girls, but you can't really say one athlete is more harder working than another unless you were first hand at all the practices all the time. Amy is a very accomplished great runner and wether or not Tara makes it she seems to have a bright future in running ahead of her. Both of the girls would be great on the team.

If Tara hits the A standard, that would be clutch. I hope she runs it just to prove everyone wrong.

Who cares which one is the hardest worker

Erdmann was stronger than Hasay at Nationals, was setting the pace and kept looking back waiting when Hasay was struggling. That was my impression, and later she said in a video that she was running only to qualify and that the race was very easy for her.

Erdmann will run under 31:45 and get the A, unless her achilles are too much of a problem. I hope she gets it.

Btw achilles problems are almost always caused by shoes with bad heels. I hope she finds better shoes or runs barefoot.

J.R. wrote:

or runs barefoot.

WOW

mgm wrote:

If Tara hits the A standard, that would be clutch. I hope she runs it just to prove everyone wrong.

Agreed. AlSal will have her going for it. As seen w/ Rupp's lack of races, he cares mostly for Champonship races, not European Tours. AlSal is much more invested in having his athletes run in Moscow.

uh...losaurus wrote:

J.R. wrote:

or runs barefoot.

WOW

She could write "nike" on her feet.

SCIN823bhu wrote:

At Worlds, a rested Hastings is more of a threat than a tired/injured Erdmann.

At Worlds, neither Hasay nor Erdmann is any kind of threat at all. Both likely to get lapped if the pace is fast, neither fast enough at 400m/800m to scare anyone if the race is tactical.

Might be easier if we knew her track PR's , 1500 , 3, 5 & 10K.

So what "meet" is this race Erdmann is running associated with? Is this still part of same meet as Jordan ran in? Wouldn't it be sweet if they qualified in the same meet?

Lets get real wrote:

Might be easier if we knew her track PR's , 1500 , 3, 5 & 10K.

Who really cares? The only US 10k woman who has a chance of getting a medal is Shalane Flanagan.

Well if she was running to qualify she kind of blew it because she didn't.

J.R. wrote:

Erdmann was stronger than Hasay at Nationals, was setting the pace and kept looking back waiting when Hasay was struggling. That was my impression, and later she said in a video that she was running only to qualify and that the race was very easy for her.

Erdmann will run under 31:45 and get the A, unless her achilles are too much of a problem. I hope she gets it.

alanson wrote:

On the other hand, Shalane is the only American with a solid chance to finish in the top ten, so for the others we're talking about the honorific of being selected for Worlds.

What do you call a "solid" chance? The Americans were 11th, 12th and 13th in the 10,000 m in London. With a few of the London top 10 not running, it isn't such a big stretch of the imagination to think that someone other than Shalane could go one better.

I want to know what Sandy the Salamander thinks. Sandy nailed Hasay's time to the second. Of course, if Sandy nailed Erdmann's time to the second as well, she would be insufferable and her head just might expand to the point of explosion, so maybe it's best she doesn't weigh in.....