Update: It's official, Mary Cain has left UP, returned home and is attending Fordham

Portland started August 31.

Randy Oldman wrote:

I guess we'll find out when the Fall semester starts on October 19.

your guess is wrong.

no fall semester starts october 19 and anyway how would that help us know what cain is doing?

sounds to me that the sports psychologist has advised her to stay on the down low and stop telling so much about herself.

Randy Oldman wrote:

I guess we'll find out when the Fall semester starts on October 19.

Based on school already starting and she is at home it looks like she is isn't at Portland this fall.. With her career there is nothing wrong with taking a year off or taking online classes. Why she isn't with Salazar is weird, but with two years of struggling to improve (actually getting worse) maybe they want her back in her comfort zone.

my guess is that this is an olympic year so she will focus on just running, or maybe take a low key class somewhere else.

probably in the fall of 2016 she will go back to school.

it sounds like she couldn't handle the multiple demands on her time and that led to her poor season.

as for being at home...probably more of the same - just let her run and not worry about anything else.

seems right wrote:

She was at an XC race in the Bronx this weekend - seems for sure she is relocating to home.

Looks like she ran an XC race in the Bronx this past weekend - see

for a nice picture. Results should be up soon - wonder what her time was / where she finished.

I actually saw results from that Bronx race and didn't see her name. Perhaps it was not a serious race effort by her.

College Drop Out wrote:

Why she isn't with Salazar is weird.

Doesn't seem weird to me that she realized he is an awful person and didn't want to be near him.

Interstate Highways wrote:

I actually saw results from that Bronx race and didn't see her name. Perhaps it was not a serious race effort by her.

Not sure what results you were looking at [maybe the Bronx 5k road race from the weekend before?] but the results of the XC race she ran yesterday are now up:

Marks Kyle M25 311 CPTC New York NY USA 1 1 1 0:16:18 0:16:18 05:15 0:16:18 2 79.18 %

Rand Matt M24 379 GTRC Peaks Island ME USA 2 2 1 0:16:18 0:16:18 05:15 0:16:18 3 79.17 %

mahon sean M29 307 Merrick NY USA 3 3 2 0:16:52 0:16:52 05:26 0:16:51 7 76.62 %

Berkow Stan M26 124 CPTC New York NY USA 4 4 3 0:16:53 0:16:53 05:26 0:16:53 8 76.43 %

Falk Phillip M31 201 CPTC New York NY USA 5 5 1 0:16:55 0:16:55 05:27 0:16:50 6 76.68 %

Burmeister Taylor M28 146 CPTC New York NY USA 6 6 4 0:17:01 0:17:01 05:29 0:17:01 9 75.84 %

Christian Brendan M28 161 New York NY USA 7 7 5 0:17:02 0:17:02 05:29 0:17:02 10 75.77 %

Fullam John M19 215 New Paltz NY USA 8 8 1 0:17:04 0:17:04 05:30 0:16:43 5 77.21 %

McNeilly Jack M24 323 New York NY USA 9 9 2 0:17:07 0:17:07 05:31 0:17:07 11 75.37 %

Cain Mary F19 148 NIKE Bronxville NY USA 10 1 1 0:17:11 0:17:11 05:32 0:17:07 1 86.52 %

Looks like a solid effort.

the course is between 60-90 seconds slower than a flat 5k, depending on how good you are on up/downhills

Is that photo caption right? She took it out in the lead?

She is such a hottie

Camo top, must not have wanted anyone noticing her.

dfasfasdf wrote:

Is that photo caption right? She took it out in the lead?

Unclear from the photos - maybe someone on the board was at the race watching and can say for sure. [fwiw, that guy just behind her finished 12th.]

Was this Cain's first XC race since NXN 2012?

It's not crazy to think she went out at a bit fast and settled in. Though HS girls that aren't pro runners have ran faster on that course. Not all that amazing for a girl with a 15:40's 5k PR making 6 figures a year if she truly was racing this. Though most likely she did additional work afterwards.

College Drop Out wrote:

Based on school already starting and she is at home it looks like she is isn't at Portland this fall.. With her career there is nothing wrong with taking a year off or taking online classes. Why she isn't with Salazar is weird, but with two years of struggling to improve (actually getting worse) maybe they want her back in her comfort zone.

According to twitter, her little sister also celebrated her 16th birthday last week so she just as easily could have gone home for a few days to celebrate.

We've contacted her management team and will post an update if we hear anything back from them.

dkny64 wrote:

Unclear from the photos - maybe someone on the board was at the race watching and can say for sure. [fwiw, that guy just behind her finished 12th.

first female 10th overall

LetsRun.com wrote:

College Drop Out wrote:

Based on school already starting and she is at home it looks like she is isn't at Portland this fall.. With her career there is nothing wrong with taking a year off or taking online classes. Why she isn't with Salazar is weird, but with two years of struggling to improve (actually getting worse) maybe they want her back in her comfort zone.

According to twitter, her little sister also celebrated her 16th birthday last week so she just as easily could have gone home for a few days to celebrate.

We've contacted her management team and will post an update if we hear anything back from them.

Who the hell is going to fly across the country for a siblings birthday?

I read the posted results wrote:

dkny64 wrote:

Unclear from the photos - maybe someone on the board was at the race watching and can say for sure. [fwiw, that guy just behind her finished 12th.

first female 10th overall

Correct, but the question was whether she was leading the race overall in a photo taken about 300m in. She could have been, but the person immediately behind her in that photo ultimately finished 12th, which suggests the race leaders might have been ahead of them and out of the picture. [seems possible since the top 2 finished nearly a minute ahead of Cain.]

On the other hand, a runner behind Cain in that photo looks like it could be one of those top 2 finishers.

Which brings me back to - was anyone there and watching the race? [or running in it and close enough to the front to know.]