//0-0 wrote:
"still only 22"
Many runners run their lifetime bests by that age.
How many top American women runners? Zero? What? Yea that's right, zero. You have to go down the lists in the 15/5k/10k to Uhl to find someone who's pr was at 22.
Huddle (5k AR days short of 26 and might still beat it) 15:17 pr a month before turning 23.
Flanagan 5k AR few months before 26,10k AR 27 and her best race ever. 15:20 pr at 22
Rowbury 1500 pr at 29, 5k at 25 (although likely better now) 4:12 and 15:38 pr at 22
Simpson 1500 pr at 27 (did run 3:59.9 just shy of turning 23, but 4:11 before that.
Uceny 1500 pr at 26 (4:06.93 at 22)
Suzy favor 1500 pr at 31 (4:08 at 22)
Jacobs...won't go there but much older
Slaney 1500 pr almost 25 obviously a crazy youth phenom as well
Willard 1500 pr age 25, 4:25 at age 22
Kastor 1500 pt at 27, 5kpr at 27, 10k AR at 29. A nobody at 22.
Rhines 1500 pr at 32, 5k pr at 33, 10k at 32. 15:57 at age 22.
Goucher 1500 pr at 28, 5k pr at 29, 10k pr at 30. 15:28 at 22.