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    • Sloinnorcal
      • RE: Kate Grave departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 8:52AM - in reply to K8 Gr8
      • Sloinnorcal
      • Very interesting.
    • Or else
    • soothsayers sees
      • RE: Kate Grave departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 9:42AM - in reply to wait on it
      • soothsayers sees
      • Signed Murphy/Engels so seem to be stockpiling middle distance and planning for post-rowbury era.
    • a hmmm
      • RE: Kate Grace departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 9:55AM - in reply to K8 Gr8
      • a hmmm
      • A very puzzling development as she's had by far the best two years of her career under them. I can think of a few options.

        1) Nike forced her hand as Norcal is associated with New Balance.

        2) Mayabe Conley is going to have a baby in 2018 so there would be no one to train with?

        3) She's changed groups a lot so maybe she just is someone that likes to move around is always thinking something is better.

        Of those three, not knowing anything, I'd lean towwards #1.
    • lalaland
    • which way I see it
      • RE: Kate Grace departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 10:48AM - in reply to a hmmm
      • which way I see it
      • I don't believe New Balance supports NorCal in any way aside from contracting Kim Conley. Their only group they support with paying coach/operational dollars is Coogan in Boston. I could see Bri and Kate feeling like the group revolves around Kim, but I guess that is to be expected with her and Drew married.
    • reading comprehension
      • RE: Kate Grace departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 11:02AM - in reply to K8 Gr8
      • reading comprehension
      • it says in the final sentence that she will be moving to portland this fall, so she is joining NOP since Bowerman is more 3k and up.
    • Not true
      • RE: Kate Grace departs NorCal, where does she go? 8/28/2017 12:22PM - in reply to which way I see it
      • Not true
      • which way I see it wrote:
        I don't believe New Balance supports NorCal in any way aside from contracting Kim Conley. Their only group they support with paying coach/operational dollars is Coogan in Boston.
        Not true
    • redux
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      • RE: Kate Grace moves to Portland... 8/28/2017 2:58PM - in reply to
      • redux
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      • Pete and Delete are sitting in a boat. Pete falls out. Who's left?
    • F U C K Los Angeles
    • reed
      registered
      • RE: Kate Grace moves to Portland... 8/28/2017 4:45PM - in reply to redux
      • reed
        registered
      • Nike doesn't want her on a squad with NB/adidas athletes.

        she doesn't seem like a Bowerman Babe type. I'll bet NOP, or Pete Julian's new club within NOP
    • George PDX
      • RE: Kate Grace moves to Portland... 8/28/2017 5:25PM - in reply to redux
      • George PDX
      • Maybe change the subject line to: "But the needle shifts" to Portland...

        "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." (And two years with an inspirational and principles-driven team). Being a member of @norcaldistance and working with @drew_wartenburg has changed my life. It is with sadness and gratitude that I say goodbye. Thank you. . . . I think a lot about what it means to make personal progress. There are parts of my personality that still ashame me... tendency talk big and not follow through, lack of responsibility/accountability. In the past two years I have learned to trust myself again -Through a program of rigorous goal setting, with teammates relentless and unapologetic in their goals, who held me to mine, and thanks to tireless energy and investment of a coach who cares deeply about his athletes. - I reached some major milestones, and learned it's not where you get, but who you become in the process. I saw that I did not have to be defined by my perceived weaknesses. That doesn't mean the battle is over, but the needle shifts, and you keeping fighting. 🖤 . . . PC @justinbritton

        NOP
    • Missuh Chow
      • RE: Kate Grace moves to Portland... 8/28/2017 6:13PM - in reply to Klo98
      • Missuh Chow
      • Dang. With felnagle and grace now gone, where does that leave Leah O'Connor? Bet she wishes she stayed in Michigan.
    • Certainly know
      • RE: Kate Grace moves to Portland... 8/28/2017 6:50PM - in reply to Missuh Chow
      • Certainly know
      • Missuh Chow wrote:
        Dang. With felnagle and grace now gone, where does that leave Leah O'Connor? Bet she wishes she stayed in Michigan.
        Leah floundered in MSU and has stalled NorCal .
        Where else could she head which will resurrect her career?