Move over Grace Ping

Anyone else absolutely sick of seeing way too much press over these young girls? 9.99/10 they will burnout and go unheard of. Ridiculous how it's encouraged for them to train so hard at a young age and have every injury known to man afterwards.

There is a 13 year old from Edmonton Canada that ran 4:45 1500m steeplechase! How do you even get over the hurdles at that age.

Because Canadians are f'ing awesome.

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone concluded that Cheyenne is 7000' feet. It's barely over 6,100'. That's fairly sizable difference.

JigglyPuff wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone concluded that Cheyenne is 7000' feet. It's barely over 6,100'. That's fairly sizable difference.

You're absolutely right. My bad. I was thinking of Laramie. Cheyenne is still pretty high tho.

That 10:10 3k was run at the Leroy Sprague Invite in Cheyenne on a golf course. Don't know anything about it. The actual high school state meet is in Sheridan.

When a young athlete achieves too much success too early they lack the hunger later on or when they face adversity and tougher athletes when they get older they tend to achieve very little in college.

Take a look at the history of the top 25 finishers in the NXN over the past 10-15 years and look how many achieved nothing in the college ranks.

Don't come back with a couple names of successful athletes take the 500 names you get from the list above and report back on what percentage were top performers in college.

Alot of fast 13 year olds wrote:

There is a 13 year old from Edmonton Canada that ran 4:45 1500m steeplechase! How do you even get over the hurdles at that age.

Yes and this girl has a 15 year old sister who was great but this year was injured.

Too much running too young the kids just don't last.

Neither of the sisters competed in XC at the Nationals either. Why? Injuries.

She is an amazing, humble young lady. You are very accurate in your comment. She is not pretentious in any form of the word. She is just a normal, down to earth kid. Her parents make sure of it. They rarely brag about her, but they are so extremely proud of the young lady that she is.I know this family personally....have been great friends for 30 years.

She will now be running in high school this year, and i am so excited to see what she does.

Oh yeah, she just ran a 35:41 10k....

she hasn't started puberty and when she does it will all over. Even if the parents have the best of intentions with their kids, it's the kids that have to find out for themselves how hard and cruel things can be, especially in this sport . Her 10k yesterday was impressive for her age but what I'll be more impressed by is if she can make it to college and beyond with continual improvement. Right now she's another flash in the pan.

35:41 age 13 sadly sounds like Garritson/Hadley territory....

Lovelybones wrote:

she hasn't started puberty and when she does it will all over. Even if the parents have the best of intentions with their kids, it's the kids that have to find out for themselves how hard and cruel things can be, especially in this sport .

The LRC pedophile trolls / website will make sure of this.

I'm a straight 30 something year old chick dipshi* . We've all seen this time and time again; fast young undeveloped girl runs fast times at peak testosterone age and when onset of puberty hits you mostly likely never hear of them again. Mary Cain anyone? Alana Hadley? Amber Trotter? Erin Keogh? History repeats itself over and over again.

If they grow hips and bigger boobs (aka Mary Cain), they are done. If not, they will have a long successful running career. The sad reality.

Lovelybones wrote:

I'm a straight 30 something year old chick dipshi* . We've all seen this time and time again; fast young undeveloped girl runs fast times at peak testosterone age and when onset of puberty hits you mostly likely never hear of them again. Mary Cain anyone? Alana Hadley? Amber Trotter? Erin Keogh? History repeats itself over and over again.

Add Brianna Jacu...Jic...Jecyz...ah, shit, I forget the spelling and I'm too lazy to Google (yeah, I know, it's a cliche) but she was a teenager in New Jersey racking up killer times in middle school and I think she was pretty well cooked even before she was through with high school.

Runners like Erin Keogh represent a slightly different class of girl who tends to be done early. The Wyoming girl is undeniably prepubescent and may simply slow down as she develops whether she develops an ED or not. Keogh and Trotter were "okay" (performance-wise) through high school but they essentially did this by staving off puberty with disordered eating -- they were both sporting lanugo hair you could see from a mile off (sorry for the cliche, again).

The girls who merely slow down and wind up devastated (cliche alert!) on that basis are a lot better off than the ones who do permanent of lasting harm to their bodies -- not that these are mutually exclusive categories.

She just won the Wyoming State XC Meet, 2 minutes ahead of the second place finisher....

StillOnFire wrote:

She just won the Wyoming State XC Meet, 2 minutes ahead of the second place finisher....

You sure? She's supposed to be done...

I'm not sure it is smart for a 13 yr old to be hammering 10ks, let alone a HM.

Homie got 9th at NXN as a freshman. That’s a decent result. Only one other freshman beat her.