She has a noticeable limp, which is entirely physical, not mental.
She has a noticeable limp, which is entirely physical, not mental.
^...this.
The steeples trigger her.
Actually she looked bad at the Trials (there was a lot of commentary here on that subject). She mentioned something about changing her technigue. Today it looked like she was taking an extra half a dozen tiny steps in front of each hurdle. It's hard to figure (kind of like the "yips" that golfers get on the greens?) - perhaps she should just emulate the Kenyan's technique and forget about proper hurdling. That technique looks awful, but it also appears to be energy efficient in not demanding a certain fixed sequence of steps in front of the hurdle.
She's got to work it out in the steeple - we've seen enough to know she's not ever going to be competitive at 1500m or 5000m. She also has the proven capability to be much faster in the steeple than we saw today.
I think describing it a a limp is imprecise. She appears to gallop as she lack hip extension on her right side. This appears to be a significant issue for her as it limits her natural counter rotation in her core and the the overall smoothness of her running.
She's obviously a fierce competitor and a tough woman (and she's gorgeous), but she may be at the upper limit of what she can do in competitive running(which has been a lot). This has to be psychologically challenging as there are at least 4 other American steeple women who are her level or better and still ascending.
I fixed my hip instability with hip flexor resistance band exercises. I'm not a 100lb girl though.
Coburn is probably the best hurdler in the world. She can lead with left or right leg and usually gains on every barrier.
And I forgot to mention that the German winner Krause looked really good today, very relaxed with great technique (sometimes actually lengthened her stride slightly as she approached the hurdles), and she ran a very smart tactical race using her technique to blast past everyone on the water jump and win by a good margin. Also her PB is about 9:02, vice 4:06 or so in the 1500. So her flat track PBs are on a par with Coburn and Garcia, but she is at least somewhat better than Coburn as a steepler.
Seriously mate? wrote:
How hard is it to jump over a 2 foot barrier? For God's sake she's a professional runner; this is all she does for a living. No reason you can't figure out how to jump over a hurdle. The Africans don't even practice and they totally dominate the event. If you can't figure it out move to a different event.
She would beat you.
Good job, Robert Gary.
All this talk about Stephanie, let's talk more about Colleen and Courtney. Beauties
Goucher Needles wrote:
I think describing it a a limp is imprecise. She appears to gallop as she lack hip extension on her right side. This appears to be a significant issue for her as it limits her natural counter rotation in her core and the the overall smoothness of her running.
She's obviously a fierce competitor and a tough woman (and she's gorgeous), but she may be at the upper limit of what she can do in competitive running(which has been a lot). This has to be psychologically challenging as there are at least 4 other American steeple women who are her level or better and still ascending.
Don't feed her ego please. She already thinks everyone wants her.
Oh nonsense. She just has a few hurdles to get over.....But seriously, her stride appears forced and awkward, with that asymmetry that has been pointed out on a previous thread. Something's gotta be done with that if she's gonna be a boss.
She took a terrible fall in the semis of the Nationals. If you look at some of the photos on line it looks like she hyperextended her right knee. If not, she is trigger shy from the fall. Until then her technique was great. She needs do the 1500 this season and go back,to work on her technique.
notrump wrote:
And I forgot to mention that the German winner Krause looked really good today, very relaxed with great technique (sometimes actually lengthened her stride slightly as she approached the hurdles), and she ran a very smart tactical race using her technique to blast past everyone on the water jump and win by a good margin. Also her PB is about 9:02, vice 4:06 or so in the 1500. So her flat track PBs are on a par with Coburn and Garcia, but she is at least somewhat better than Coburn as a steepler.
Plus Krause is only 5' 6", compared to 5' 8" for Coburn.
Not fast enough to do anything else. Same with Cabral.
Before dumping on her coach, Stephanie ran 9:19 a month after the 2016 Trials in Paris (she beat Quigley there). She ran a couple 9:30's in May and a 9:25 at 2017 Prefontaine Classic. Inside a month, she seemed to forget how to hurdle and the water jump is the most glaring. She is obviously in shape with a 3000 PB and a great mile in London a week ago. Not sure what injury could be hurting her water jumps but not her flat times? What "technique" would be coached?
[quote]celery wrote:
"The excessive stutter stepping does seem to come from a lack of confidence/overthinking. She need to go to a park and just start jumping over stuff (park benches, bushes, sleeping vagrants) just to remember what its like to hurdle stuff naturally. At least that would be my armchair-quarterback advise."
Not sure if you were being facetious or not, but that's exactly how I trained for the barriers -minus the sleeping vagrants- when I ran the steeple in college, and it worked.
During distance runs I actually looked for things to jump over -hedges, fences, logs- and did just that. I tried to find barriers that were slightly higher than the competition hurdles, so in races the height felt easy. I even step-jumped mailboxes, using them as dry-land water jumps. A nearby beach had wooden jetties spaced every few hundred metres, and I did 7 - 8 mile runs there, hurdling the barriers as they came. There was no overthinking, I just cleared the barriers naturally, and never hit one in a race or had a single stumble.
Hounddogharrier wrote:
She took a terrible fall in the semis of the Nationals. If you look at some of the photos on line it looks like she hyperextended her right knee.
Call it real wrote:
Not sure what injury could be hurting her water jumps but not her flat times? What "technique" would be coached?
Did you listen to the interview up thread?