Gwen Jorgensen has gone dark?

I don't think she threw in the towel, but did make a shift away from a heavy focus on her Youtube channel. The diaster of a race she had at the Chicago Marathon was likely a huge wakeup call for her. I wouldn't be surprised to see her have a bounce back race in the spring as she does have talent to compete at a high level. Why she has such a big focus on the marathon is a bit confusing. I get that there is big money in marathons at the top level, but she looks more suited for the 5,000, 10,000, or even half-marathon.

Maybe she taking some down time. I know that down time is silly, since she just ran a marathon and she needs to keep the trolls on Lets Run with constant race data to criticize. Being a new mom with a family during the holiday season is a silly reason not to continue with marathon training. What do you expect her to be running after the Chicago Marathon?

Running is beautiful because it only cares about the time it takes to get from here to there not one's wishes or hopes to move time from now to then.

Worry about raising Stanley well not running for unrealistic glory.

S.O.W.P.

I agree that the 180 seems weird. She was so fired up about switching to running and the marathon and so sure she really had a shot at being a gold medal level of talent. But then when it became clear that wasnt true, why just quit?

Why not instead just say, hey, ok, I'm not going to get a medal in the marathon, but I ran pretty darned fast in the 5000m very soon after my switch to running, maybe I should pursue that.

If her real goal was to show she was such a b@d@ss that she could make the transition from gold medal triathlete to gold medal runner, why give up when her initial target event failed? Take the positive signs in a different event and give that a shot for another year.

Or if you think you have no shot at all and would prefer to just hang it up as an athlete or to go back to triathlon, announce that. No shame in being an Olympic gold medalist in "only" one event.

But to just go dark is strange.

UpdateonGwen wrote:

Gone are the days of talk about 2:20 marathons, YouTube videos, and constant twitter updates.

Sure seems like quite a 180 degree turn compared to her old approach to things

What happened? Did she throw in the towel?

Do any insiders here care to weigh in.

Not an insider....but guessing she's using her recent setback as motivation, sharpening her focus and training her ass off. Social media taking a back seat.

She probably read all of the threads on how annoying she is and called it quits.

Maybe after she saw Emma Bates run 2:28:18 on her first marathon she had a reality check that she is nowhere close to even be in contention (2 marathons, both over 2:35, not a chance in hell clicks) for her unrealistic goal. She should focus on the 5k/10k and forget the marathon for the time being. She demonstrated to be in Argentinian lingo a "boluda"(full of sh).

She posts on Instagram. Was giving away her triathlon bike and a GPS watch this past week

I doubt she will throw in the towel when she is the family's only source of income.

She's active wrote:

She posts on Instagram. Was giving away her triathlon bike and a GPS watch this past week

I think the OP's point was the brash predictions have dried up. Gone is the repeated mentions of her goal being a gold medal, etc. Dont forget how they were filming her constantly aparently so they would have plenty of footage for when she got a marathon gold medal, they have stopped mentioning that effort.

Everything on Instagram recently is fairly generic running/cycling/swimming photos, giveaways, pictures of her family, or reposts from previous years. Zero training details, zero goals mentioned, no mention of target races, no indication she even is still exclusively a runner other than one picture of her cycling says "dont call this a comeback attempt."

1) She’s pregnant

2) She’s living BTC

Last vid was uploaded 2 weeks ago. Probably not enough content to upload. PLus Talbot Cox (great digital content creator) has been busy working for other athletes (Lionel Sanders and Tim&Rinny-Triathletes).

Man Overboard wrote:

UpdateonGwen wrote:

Gone are the days of talk about 2:20 marathons, YouTube videos, and constant twitter updates.

Sure seems like quite a 180 degree turn compared to her old approach to things

What happened? Did she throw in the towel?

Do any insiders here care to weigh in.

Not an insider....but guessing she's using her recent setback as motivation, sharpening her focus and training her ass off. Social media taking a back seat.

No. I think she has no humility whatsoever.

Contrast her to Tim Tebow. While the sports media called him an idiot for trying pro baseball at age 30ish, Tebow went all the way down to the low Minors, “rode the bus” with the 18 year olds, worked his ass off, was a positive presence in the dugout and locker room, and showed he was a serviceable baseball player. He probably would have been a September call up for a not-great Mets team if he didn’t have a season ending injury. Tebow never said he was going to be better than Mike Trout — which is essentially what Gwen did. She has shown a total lack of respect to the Sport and her fellow athletes.

I hate to say it but maybe she had some kind of wake up call about her health because she looks sickly unwell and weak.

303Mainiac wrote:

Maybe she taking some down time. I know that down time is silly, since she just ran a marathon and she needs to keep the trolls on Lets Run with constant race data to criticize. Being a new mom with a family during the holiday season is a silly reason not to continue with marathon training. What do you expect her to be running after the Chicago Marathon?

Oh. So being a woman suits the narrative when it’s convenient?! Shut your horrible little cake hole.

Yes, but Tebow also wasn’t any good at football...

I think she's going to go back to triathlon and is waiting before saying anything. She can still get another gold medal there as the women's side of the sport is just not that competitive. I think she has a NEED to win and I don't mean financially and can most likely get it done there. I don't think she just wants to go to the Olympics to participate and I don't see her winning gold in the 5000.

The entire BTC elite works out every Tuesday morning at Duniway park doing hills and short sprinting. Everyone was there last week for the women, except her. Shalane was even there, though not running, so it seems odd that she wasn’t in attendance. A bunch of men were missing, but the full womens team was there except her.

Refocused on 10 k, count on it. THis time though she isn’t making a lot of pronouncements though. She will make TOkyo but won’t medal.