Katelyn Tuohy 5k Record Attempt

So to obviously get way ahead of ourselves, what event does she target for 2020? 1500? 5k? Steeple!?

I haven't seen any races to know - does she have a kick?

IMO, she needs to start racing the pros. I don't mean it to rush her progress or push her limits, but she isn't racing anyone. Time to start learning how to race and to feel the sting of losing...then again she is an effing sophomore. If it ain't broke?

Okay geniuses, but she did this every race in cross. It's pretty dumb to go out at 14:35 pace when your PR is over 16 minutes

yowza wrote:

So to obviously get way ahead of ourselves, what event does she target for 2020? 1500? 5k? Steeple!?

I haven't seen any races to know - does she have a kick?

IMO, she needs to start racing the pros. I don't mean it to rush her progress or push her limits, but she isn't racing anyone. Time to start learning how to race and to feel the sting of losing...then again she is an effing sophomore. If it ain't broke?

She's a kid. Let her enjoy HS and College running. Mary Cain went pro in HS when she didn't have competition, and she only got worse each year. Alexa Efraimson did the same thing, and while she hasn't improved from HS she's still competent.

Jamisonmooresey wrote:

Okay geniuses, but she did this every race in cross. It's pretty dumb to go out at 14:35 pace when your PR is over 16 minutes

Actually her PR going into the race was N/A because she never ran an indoor 5k before. She likes to go out fast, it works well for her. Aint broke don't fix it.

She is the real deal . Not a frail little prepubescent girl but a power runner. She will make waves ? in the pro ranks.

Jamisonmooresey wrote:

Okay geniuses, but she did this every race in cross. It's pretty dumb to go out at 14:35 pace when your PR is over 16 minutes

Do you dumbasses know how to red splits, first 200 was 25 after that all 37-38 with two 39s she went a little extra wide on or would have been 38s too

Gotta bee wrote:

Jamisonmooresey wrote:

Okay geniuses, but she did this every race in cross. It's pretty dumb to go out at 14:35 pace when your PR is over 16 minutes

Do you dumbasses know how to red splits, first 200 was 25 after that all 37-38 with two 39s she went a little extra wide on or would have been 38s too

I'm not even sure she can run 25 open, let alone for the first 200m of a 5k.

25? Wow! Good for her! She doesn’t look starved or overtrained. No idea what kind of mileage she does but if she were a swimmer no one would question her training I think she’ll be fine and she looks healthier than everyone else in most of the top fields she runs against.

Foul to all the VA “distance” runners who dodged the competition after racing up until FL or NXN trials. Kudos to the Blacksburg girl who ran the elite mike and doubled in the 5,000 running an excellent race.

robert678 wrote:

She's a kid. Let her enjoy HS and College running. Mary Cain went pro in HS when she didn't have competition, and she only got worse each year. Alexa Efraimson did the same thing, and while she hasn't improved from HS she's still competent.

Serious, driven athletes, regardless of how old they are, don't want to "enjoy HS and college running," especially if it means time trialing minutes ahead of everyone else who is nominally in the same race. They want to compete at the highest level that their talent and training permit. In a lot of sports, teenagers are routinely world class, and nobody suggests that they should just focus on NCAA competition until they're in the mid-20s. It seems to be mostly in running, and mostly with young women, that everyone is suddenly concerned that their fragile psyches won't be able to handle competing at the level that their talent can take them to.

As for the keyboard diagnoses of various runners whom you don't know, there's there's nothing to indicate that going pro too early ruined either Cain of Efraimson. Cain's issue is obvious, and I would rather not discuss it. I doubt that being in the NCAA would've helped. Efraimson was elite when she went pro and has in fact improved. Maybe not as much as some hoped, but female mid-d prodigies rarely drop huge time during their early adult years. Sometimes they have to move up in distance (or way up, in the case of Jordan), and sometimes they just have to ride out the few years of stagnation that seem to result from the latter stages of female puberty.