Allie Kieffer runs 1:10:58 for the win at Staten Island Half as her last workout before NYC

skrillquest wrote:

HMMM wrote:

In every way that Scorpion_Runner dumps on Gwen, Allie is opposite.

She's been grinding for a long time

Overcome injuries and persisted

Very Humble, focuses on herself and spreading a good message

Put in her dues in HS, College, Local Running Scene, Pro Levels

Came in 2nd last year in NYC and barely got a deal with Oiselle

Gwen calls Jerry and says she wants to win Gold in 2020 and all of a sudden she's on the BTC and signed by Nike.

Yep - all true!

Just finally checking this thread to see why it is still on the main page...

Pretty funny how Allie runs the same half time as Gwen this year... the resulting thread is how she is going to kill NYC.

Gwen's thread on the other hand is full of hate and most agree that she will never make something of herself as a runner.

Um, maybe cause Allie has proven herself as a marathoner and Gwen hasn’t?

Milka Whatttt???? wrote:

check yo self wrote:

Just finally checking this thread to see why it is still on the main page...

Pretty funny how Allie runs the same half time as Gwen this year... the resulting thread is how she is going to kill NYC.

Gwen's thread on the other hand is full of hate and most agree that she will never make something of herself as a runner.

No, she's not going to kill NYC. I didn't read that anywhere. Breaking 2:30 would be huge for her. 2:29:59 would make her happier than she'd ever admit, even after her "workout" sub 1:11 half.

She ran 2:29:39 in NYC last year...

Yeah, ok, he seems to have a laser like focus on Allie..... right? Wasn't sure what to expect when I went over to his instagram, but I see it now. He also seemed to have removed the HM snap.

trackjack44 wrote:

Parker Stinson didn't flop at Chicago. He ran a smart, PR race...

Obviously, as a matter of fact, he ran a PR race. That doesn't mean he ran smart. Smart is about his race strategy. Lots of people here think he ran fast in spite of this strategy. They think given his fitness, he could have run a better PR if he'd used a different strategy.

I still haven't seen his defenders answer this simple question: If Stinson's strategy is so smart, why don't more successful runners use it? If going out fast at the start and then running progressively slower as the race progresses, leads to better times, I'd think the big boys would be all over it. As far as I can tell, they aren't.

I don't follow the marathon closely, so I'm happy to be enlightened if I've missed top runners who run with Stinson. I just know that in the 1500, this strategy spells L-O-S-E-R. Just ask Jordan McNamara and his crew about how it worked at the last Olympic Trials, where they finished 14-15 seconds back after taking it out hard.