This is why Shalane is the best.

If you want to know what any Pro athlete is truly like when the lights and cameras are shut off, ask their coach and teammates. If an athlete is a malcontent within a team setting, you are looking at a selfish person. Shalane will be loved forever. Hearing Emily Infeld and Amy Cragg and Colleen Quigley and others speak so highly of her, makes me love her even more. Go Shalane.

Shalane is the most sought after speaker in America right now. Her win in NY is only part of it. I agree that her respect from her teammates is the bigger issue. Her image does not appear to be just something for the public. She is real.

I believe she once left her Coach and team.

from interviews it sounds like her NYC-best-ever marathon buildup was actually done solo. Team support is great but there is always some one pushing it in big groups. I wonder if she overtrained at times before

She did not train alone for NY. Most of the team ran with Shalane nearly every day. There was less than 5 days that Shalane was alone for the entire build up.

Could you maybe qualify this for us? Do you mean most sought after sports speaker? Female sports speaker? Track and field/distance running speaker? Sort of a broad claim you're making here.

Tulsa Track Club wrote:

Shalane is the most sought after speaker in America right now. Her win in NY is only part of it. I agree that her respect from her teammates is the bigger issue. Her image does not appear to be just something for the public. She is real.

$12,000 for a 1 hour speech plus travel expenses.

Midwest has inquired wrote:

$12,000 for a 1 hour speech plus travel expenses.

That's chump change....ask Clinton or Obama.

I would take that gig. Probably do 20-25 speeches a year without interfering with training and add $150k of additional income.

The reason question.....Can she hook a brother up with some blue Vaporfly 4%???

Midwest has inquired wrote:

$12,000 for a 1 hour speech plus travel expenses.

Does she get paid by the expetive?

I'll take the letter "L" Pat.

When is Gwenny J joining the BB team? Thought that news was coming soon?

Team Matters wrote:

If you make your teammates as important as yourself you will be rewarded.

Thank you Shalane for showing us all the way. You are the best.

yeah but...there are probably dozens of world class runners who did make their teammates as important as themselves...and as a result they got hurt, they went too hard in workouts, they didn't stand up for themselves, etc.

Tara Erdmann comes to mind. Put on NOP, rips herself apart trying to help her teammates. Winds up falling behind, hurt and unemployed.

point is, every athlete is in a different situation, and has to act accordingly.

I think you missed the point.

Shalane is the big dog. She made all of the young newbies feel important.

Tara was never in that position.

I actually use this exact story with my HS team. My top girl needed to hear about how important it is to think of others.

Midwest has inquired wrote:

$12,000 for a 1 hour speech plus travel expenses.

More like $37,000. She is a marathon runner.

Plus a base salary of $800,000 per year.

HS RedHawks wrote:

I actually use this exact story with my HS team. My top girl needed to hear about how important it is to think of others.

My high school coach would always say that "selfish ends up lonely". I've repeated that to my own kids.