Katelen Tuohy smashes VCP record

There's a quick vid of it on this.

http://www.milesplit.com/articles/224299?page=7

Anyone notice the physical development of this kid. Wow, very well built, very muscular.

This may be the best HS girls XC performance ever.

Wonder how she develops from here? Will she remain a distance runner?

Light & lean, like a runner.

Niles wrote:

There's a quick vid of it on this.

I wonder what she ran for her first quarter mile.

arnold.. wrote:

Anyone notice the physical development of this kid. Wow, very well built, very muscular.

This may be the best HS girls XC performance ever.

Wonder how she develops from here? Will she remain a distance runner?

Yes, people have noticed. How can you not?

She has Mary Decker's body and Zola Budd's stride. This should be interesting.

Will she remain a distance runner? How stupid are you?

Well done, young lady, well done!

My initial instinct is to say something is amidst, but I know the course is pretty well understood and it's almost impossible to cut the course. I also know the guys who run this meet and they are absolute pros, so I have to say this is probably legit. (I can't help but to be slightly suspicious.) Holly cow, this girl would have been top-5 on most of the boy's teams. Looking for some perspective based on my old H.S. boys stats, most of my boys who ran around that time were mid-16 types on the 3.1 course and were all well under 10 minutes in a 2-mile. It hard to believe this girl ran half minute faster than Cuffe and Cain. Does anyone know if Wendy Kelati every ran this race and what was her time? - Obviously I am still trying to get my hands around this.

TrackCoach wrote:

My initial instinct is to say something is amidst, but I know the course is pretty well understood and it's almost impossible to cut the course. I also know the guys who run this meet and they are absolute pros, so I have to say this is probably legit. (I can't help but to be slightly suspicious.) Holly cow, this girl would have been top-5 on most of the boy's teams. Obviously I am still trying to get my hands around this.

All I know is that she ran the 1500m 4 second faster than I did in grade 10, except that she ran that time when she was in grade 9. She obviously progressed a lot during the summer. Indeed, most schools don't have 5 boys who run sub 4:10 for the 1500m (which is probably the shape that she's in now).

Just look at that start.

She ran possessed.

On a mission.

Lee Haney wrote:

arnold.. wrote:

Anyone notice the physical development of this kid. Wow, very well built, very muscular.

This may be the best HS girls XC performance ever.

Wonder how she develops from here? Will she remain a distance runner?

Yes, people have noticed. How can you not?

She has Mary Decker's body and Zola Budd's stride. This should be interesting.

Will she remain a distance runner? How stupid are you?

Not stupid at all. You on the other hand.....

Remember the phenom from Cali a few years back, now at Oregon. How did she pan out?

This kid may be the next thing, she may also develop into a thick bodied who knows what. After puberty we will see if she is a distance runner still or something else. Mother nature has the answer, you are a clown.

Fghht459 wrote:

Crazy time. The video of the start was hilarious, so far ahead so fast..

Why did she run in some minor heat instead of the fast heat? She would have destroyed that too, but still, seems odd.

pretty sure she ran in that heat because the Eastern States Champs race has way more people and it's difficult to move around once you get to this funnel going into the woods trail after about 300m from the start.

That “girl from Cali” is still a distance runner, dummy.

arnold.. wrote:

Lee Haney wrote:

Yes, people have noticed. How can you not?

She has Mary Decker's body and Zola Budd's stride. This should be interesting.

Will she remain a distance runner? How stupid are you?

Not stupid at all. You on the other hand.....

Remember the phenom from Cali a few years back, now at Oregon. How did she pan out?

This kid may be the next thing, she may also develop into a thick bodied who knows what. After puberty we will see if she is a distance runner still or something else. Mother nature has the answer, you are a clown.

i was @ VCP wrote:

Fghht459 wrote:

Crazy time. The video of the start was hilarious, so far ahead so fast..

Why did she run in some minor heat instead of the fast heat? She would have destroyed that too, but still, seems odd.

pretty sure she ran in that heat because the Eastern States Champs race has way more people and it's difficult to move around once you get to this funnel going into the woods trail after about 300m from the start.

She ran in that race because that is where her team was seeded.

Course is slightly different. Not sure when the finish was moved to the Broadway side and the start moved closer to the cow pasture.

Ronald Dump wrote:

Call me suspicious

I’m a Trump supporter but that is a fantastic handle. You should register it ASAP.

arnold.. wrote:

Not stupid at all.

Oh yes you are, and more so the more you bulk up.

Tully Power Rates her performance @ 166

Only one better @ VCP is Cathy Shiro 1984 5k course record 16:48 rated at 170 (that spring CS ran 9:15 5k @ PennRelays)

So, we shall see in the upcoming weeks/years if she can ascend to that level

FWIW

I guess the girls record being, now, 1:25 slower than the boys record would make sense. It's probably been slow for a long time.

I don't know if the course is close to the same as in the early '80s, but plenty of guys who were around or just under 13:00 were also sub 9:20 3200 guys.