Exactly! Patience is a virtue!
Exactly! Patience is a virtue!
Mary Decker, many Africans and many Europeans have gone pro and flourished
Mary Deccker wrote:
Mary Decker, many Africans and many Europeans have gone pro and flourished
Mary Decker did not go pro out of HS. She competed for Colorado for at least a couple of years after a couple of years of injury.
invested parents wrote:
oboeviolin wrote:
Yeah like Mary Decker. What a short career she had
Yea, and Mary Cain, oops.
Not even Close.
Cain and Decker are not in the same neighborhood.
So many female high school phenoms seem have the cards stacked against them for later success.
She should think long term approach and slow her roll...or get the "this success could come to an abrupt end" expectation talk so she isn't the next Mary Cain, Efraimson, etc
sorry for downersville, but let's look at history for a moment here.
A 4:03 1500 and you are hoping that she isn't the next Efraimson? That's probably faster than she will ever run.
guy who assumes a lot wrote:
So many female high school phenoms seem have the cards stacked against them for later success.
She should think long term approach and slow her roll...or get the "this success could come to an abrupt end" expectation talk so she isn't the next Mary Cain, Efraimson, etc
sorry for downersville, but let's look at history for a moment here.
And do you really think slowing down would change anything? I remember the posts how Americans couldn’t compete cause they didn’t get enough base and were 10k miles behind when they hit their peak years. Now it is they are training too much. Reality is that you should only expect 1/4 or so of the prodigies to make it. The rest either max out their talent (is it better run 15:50 in HS or college) or have the bad breaks (injury, poor coaching fit, puberty,..). It isn’t remotely clear that any of them are overtraining there way out of careers. You used to be able to go down the top 10 lists and see that it was about 50/50 of recognizing people and going whatever happened to. but there have been so many fast times lately that most of the list now is 5+ years away from evaluating. Pretty much the same holds for guys also.
Got to admit I sort of want to see one of the sub guys actual dominate in college
Hardloper wrote:
Exactly. It's the classic "regression to the mean" illusion
Well said. Put another way, there are probably 100 girls in any given year who could emerge as national champ if everything goes perfectly with their training, development, competitors, conditions, and good fortune. And yet human nature seems to push us to treat the champion as though she is on an entirely different level than the competition, and to think of her as having burned out or "matured" if she doesn't overcome the overwhelming odds against becoming an Olympian in the years that follow.
Katelyn Touhy really does appear to be on an entirely different level than the competition, however. Time will tell if my eyes deceive me.
What's wrong with her giving it the ol' college try? I mean, if she can qualify for Tokyo 2020, it'll be a great experience that will hopefully help her to dominate 2024.
Or are we going to play the game of "who gets an running olympic medal first: Tuohy or GwenJ?"
based on what. Gtwn coach, though an Olympian, has doe nothing with the talent she has