Is Gwen Jorgenson racing today????

Rochelle Kanuho (unattached) vs Gwen Jorgensen: 2-0

Yes, but a beautiful shot and loudly edited one!!!

What about her training led you to believe she could hang on to a 4:38 last 1600? She lost 22 seconds over the last 800. It was good for her to jump in and get some race experience, but she isn't going to do well at that type of race.

Can't wait to see all the tweets, blogs, videos, whatever she does about this.

She's a social media presence. Not an athlete. Weaksauce.

Good to see her getting gold in the marathon is on schedule.

* rolls eyes*

Love Molly Huddle's response.

https://youtu.be/9eNckalKDfw?t=211

Reaching for a good answer wrote:

Love Molly Huddle's response.

https://youtu.be/9eNckalKDfw?t=211

She laughed at that crap. You couldn't tell what she was really saying in her mind.

She said on social media that she has really been upping the mileage lately. I wonder if the higher mileage is taking it's toll right now since its new for her.

lets be real wrote:

What about her training led you to believe she could hang on to a 4:38 last 1600? She lost 22 seconds over the last 800. It was good for her to jump in and get some race experience, but she isn't going to do well at that type of race.

She ran 1:17.XXs for most of the race until 4 to go, at which point she was with the main pack. Her last four laps were 1:14.66, 1:19.23, 1:19.06, 1:16.32, according to the USATF website. The winner ran 1:13, 1:11, 1:09, 1:04. So she basically tried to hang on and slowed down when she couldn't. So it looks like 32:24 is pretty close to what she can do for 10K right now.

32:24.09 is 2:16 pace for a marathon. So it seems possible she could run mid-2:2Xs on a flat course with more training in her. In the olympic marathon at least that places her as a threat if the course is slow.

"32:24.09 is 2:16 pace for a marathon. So it seems possible she could run mid-2:2Xs on a flat course..."

This is a stretch. She needs to get in a target race marathon every ~6 months leading up to the trials and show some systematic progress to confidently (based on her training and racing--not her professional video production) run under 2:30. She has the potential, and it's an interesting story to follow.

Are you talking about WS100?

I think she did GREAT! She's SUCH an INSPIRATION!!

She ran absolutely even paced with the last four laps exactly the same average pace like before.

At the same time the winner increased the pace continously over the last four laps and put a 33 s gap on her.

Whereas you can say the winner basically ran a tactical race and can maybe run a minute faster, Jorgensen was definitely at her maximum.

The time is equivalent to about a 2:30 marathon, so with some improvement qualification for olympics is not out of reach. But for winning olympic gold she should be able to be a force (if not dominate) in US distance running already, while she is not much better than 'also ran' actually.

Wintry wrote:

trolltrolltroll23 wrote:

She will pull away with 10 laps to go...will not come down to a spring.

Better than a Fall, I guess.

lol

I think Molly Huddle's laugh summed it up perfectly. Gwen was so happy in her interview to be getting all of that attention. This is nothing but a pipe dream. Her plans to "get better slowly with Jerry's guidance" is bull crap. Not enough time left before the trials.

We have too many good American marathon runners who will shame Gwen. I can't believe that people are buying into this nonsense.

Why weren't many of the other 10 k women interviewed. Only Gwen and Molly were interviewed. Place finishers 2-6 were not even interviewed on Letsrun.

Gwen is an arrogant fool.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Good to see her getting gold in the marathon is on schedule.

* rolls eyes*

You are a very small man.

It's entertaining to read your posts about Gwen. :D

By the way, I am not from the US and never followed triathlon. I started following Gwen's career after the thread you started. Thanks!

ha!

using the Pete Riegel formula, her 10k time predicts that, if she were to train properly, and if she is not biased to one end of the spectrum or the other, she can go sub 2:30 for the marathon (2:29:03 to be precise).

I like the idea of athletes having goals, and of having big bold goals that require some effort and commitment over a long period of time, so I am not mocking or knocking her at all, I applaud her ambition, but I haven't seen anything yet to make me think there's a seat on the plane to Tokyo with her name on it.

and, incidentally, using her 1/2 marathon time from Indianpolis in May (1:10:58), the Reigel formula predicted a 10km time of 32:09.

cheers.

Just watched the replay and WOW. She does NOT look like a runner. I was wondering who the big awkward chick in the pack was, and that was her. Biomechanics are awful.

She’s actually regressing