Wow, that's news to me. Heinrich is a great naturalist/writer. Always been a fan of Jennings as well.
Wow, that's news to me. Heinrich is a great naturalist/writer. Always been a fan of Jennings as well.
Moo Goo wrote:
Jennings made her mark and retired just before a throng of Africans came along.
Depends how you look at her career. She starts as a HS runner and wins her 10 team Massachusetts league meet. Since there was not a girls team, she won the boys league meet. Smaller MA schools, but still. If you ever saw the Prefontaine movie where he is leading the pack 400m into the OR state boys meet, I met Lynn (friend of a friend from Harvard MA) at the MA state meet. At 400m she had a similar lead. Okay, then 9 times (yes nine) US XC champ, 3 times world champ (her love was back roads and XC). But still a bronze medal in the 10k at Barcelona (Tulu, of a country called Ethiopia, won). She got 3rd in Boston, unofficially, at 17, in 2:46 and later at ~39 ran it in 2:38. Given everything, where running was then vs now, I'd certainly rank her even or ahead of Deena and Shalane.