steph garcia is arrogant wrote:
Don't feed her ego please. She already thinks everyone wants her.
By far the least attractive steeple chick
steph garcia is arrogant wrote:
Don't feed her ego please. She already thinks everyone wants her.
By far the least attractive steeple chick
Whaaaast? wrote:
Coburn is probably the best hurdler in the world. She can lead with left or right leg and usually gains on every barrier.
Just a reminder that this doesn't mean it's good hurdling technique. If she exerts a lot of effort to get those small gains then she's costing herself over the course of the race.
agdsfadsf wrote:
Just a reminder that this doesn't mean it's good hurdling technique. If she exerts a lot of effort to get those small gains then she's costing herself over the course of the race.
Have you never watched Coburn steeple? She's extremely efficient hurdling the barriers and her technique is solid.
Garcia's form is terrible, it looks like she's steepling for the first time. I don't understand why she is cutting her stride each time as she hurdles. Does anyone know if is she injured?
psssst wrote:
The steeples trigger her.
Sad!
psssst wrote:
The steeples trigger her.
LOL!
celery wrote:
I need to add. No matter how bad her hurdle technique looks, it doesn't look half as bad as the "butt-crack" black line that runs down the back of the New Balance racing shorts. Why in the world did they put that line there? Why not just put little black circles for nipples on the sports bra. I don't get it. It looks awful. I like New Balance, but that black line on the butt just looks horrible.
+1
ditto wrote:
celery wrote:I need to add. No matter how bad her hurdle technique looks, it doesn't look half as bad as the "butt-crack" black line that runs down the back of the New Balance racing shorts. Why in the world did they put that line there? Why not just put little black circles for nipples on the sports bra. I don't get it. It looks awful. I like New Balance, but that black line on the butt just looks horrible.
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Funny. She does have a gait that is painful to watch.
Looks like she hyperextended her right leg.
Seems like it was a mental issue after all, stepping away from the steeple.
jaxrunner wrote:
https://mobile.twitter.com/steph_steeples/status/886693758334619648Seems like it was a mental issue after all, stepping away from the steeple.
Just watched the rabat race now. She is super hesitant and loses speed at every barrier. Those stutter steps kill it.
ArthurNotInMyYard wrote:
[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.
I was not being facetious. It honestly was my first thought as to how to improve hurdle technique, and improve confidence. But since I don't have any actual coaching experience, and have never run the steeple, I didn't want to claim that I'm an authority on this topic....however, I have jumped over things:)
...maybe I should take up coaching someday when making a decent living is not so necessary.
The Steeple seems to a " last resort" race for some. Her last two races have awful. Time to move back to 1500 .
Worked for Anna Willard Pierce
Like the guy said earlier she has the yips. Like those baseball guys who all of a sudden can't throw the ball to a target. All mental and very difficult to overcome.
All athletics has her PB for 5000 at 15:16.
Maybe a little like Leah O'Connor; if you can't stay healthy doing it or gets in your head, walk away if you're good enough to compete elsewhere.
Of course, a bunch of dudes telling a woman what to do Typical letsrun.
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. 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.
THIS!!!!!!
Gun shy about the barriers. Needs to run 1500/5k for a few years. Remember the Austrian guy who face planted into the barrier? He became a marathoner.
Dr NO wrote:
The Steeple seems to a " last resort" race for some. Her last two races have awful. Time to move back to 1500 .
Worked for Anna Willard Pierce
She's not even competitive at the 1500m?
Garcia is so into herself. Remember when she said at the trials its 4 chicks racing for 3 spots for the team...
steph garcia is arrogant wrote:
Don't feed her ego please. She already thinks everyone wants her.
+1