txRUNNERgirl wrote:
umass track wrote:If you dont think ten pounds of weight makes a difference you're delusional. I dropped 10 pounds of upper body muscle over the course of spring track and the difference was night and day (30 seconds or so in the steeple, not all the weight but definitely felt the difference late in races). And thats going from 170 to 160, which is a much smaller difference than 110-120.
You're talking about a female who is 5'7 and listed at 110 lbs. Even if she went to 120, she's still very thin. She's a professional athlete, not a frat boy who gained a beer gut. Any weight she has gained is there for a reason and if it's not, her training should either burn it off or convert it to useful muscle. What I'm saying is blaming weight gain for someone to be "done" is a cop-out.
Not sure if you are trolling here or maybe just not able to see logically due to being a female yourself.
110 ---> 120 = 9% gain in weight. 9% gain in weight of anything but blood is going to slow a distance runner down, by approximately (9% *.62 = 5.58%)
4:04 * 1.0558 = 4:17
That's all it is. She's heavy relative to her former self. We aren't arguing 5'7" 120 isn't extremely thin, duh, we all know that. But it doesn't take much muscle to run 65 second 400s.
And it's not that she just turned into a woman and her bones all magically changed in a couple month span. She is just too heavy. Period. Her face looks soft for an elite endurance athlete. She's actually prettier because of it, but pretty isn't fast. Looking like you are sick is fast. Actually being sick, of course, is not fast. But it's a fine line. And she's on the healthy/slow side of the line right now. If she wants to run fast she needs to get closer to the healthy/sick-looking/fast side of the line.
Again, I'm not saying she should cross over to the sick/sick-looking/fast side of the line, but if you want to see pictures of that look up Amber Trotter when she was in HS. There is fine balance and it takes time.
Mary will figure it out.