Gwen Jorgensen has gone dark?

Hounddogharrier wrote:

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.

I don't think so. As I stated in my post above about the triathlon, she NEEDS to win and just participating in an Olympics won't do it for her. While she knows how to win, she doesn't know how to lose, kind of like PRE after he lost in the Olympics, he was ready to give up on running.

Actually, I found the YouTube videos and her attempt at social media to appear strained and it may have been emotional labor she didn’t need. She had practically no social media presence as a triathlete and that worked just fine.

What a collection of tools on this forum! Tebow?! Going back to triathlon?! Inside information from a PDX stalker. And a fan of the illiterate, silicone injections lipped Talbot Cox!

Going back to the Triathlon!!!!!!

Go, Gwen!! Tokyo 2020 Defending Champ!

i think she went home devastated.

Nikemann wrote:

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.

Her December 5 tweet was that she spent the entire day sick in bed.... so she may just have been really sick still.

Sick in bed wrote:

Nikemann wrote:

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.

Her December 5 tweet was that she spent the entire day sick in bed.... so she may just have been really sick still.

Perhaps that is a side effect of being underweight and not eating enough?

Hubris is a byatch that will take a big chunk out of your own a$$.

side effect of being underweight wrote:

Sick in bed wrote:

Her December 5 tweet was that she spent the entire day sick in bed.... so she may just have been really sick still.

Perhaps that is a side effect of being underweight and not eating enough?

And being full of excrement.

neorunner wrote:

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.

That one is real simple: She can't run the 14:20 / 29:40 it would require to be able to announce that her goal in three yrs is to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Because her background was being the best in the world at a 2-hour discipline, also one that focuses on YouTube, bold proclamations, and Twitter, she thought that this goal of a gold medal was feasible. Or at least hundreds of thousands would believe her.

She had already established her ability at 5k / 10k enough that a gold medal would seem outlandish.

I do agree with you that SO FAR she has shown better ability and had better performances at 5k / 10k rather than marathon. But she has only had one bad marathon and I think her other races have shown that she has probable 2:25-26 ability and 2:29 for certain. As many people have pointed out, this is not fast enough to make our Olympic team, much less win Gold at the Olympics.

Agreed. Running seems simple until you try to live with the best. Notice the attempt to recruit runners for triathlon. A more likely plan.

She has actually deleted reference to marathon gold in Tokyo from her instagram, if anyone else noticed...

3 weeks ago she said she was going for a 30 day altitude camp, so she should still be there.

I'm not sure she has gone dark. As far as I know, Patrick is still around.

side effect of being underweight wrote:

Sick in bed wrote:

Her December 5 tweet was that she spent the entire day sick in bed.... so she may just have been really sick still.

Perhaps that is a side effect of being underweight and not eating enough?

Probably, because no mom with a 1+ yr old has ever gone through a succession of childhood diseases. I am sure that when my son was an infant, if I had told my wife, "dear, you are sick because you are underweight and not eating enough" she would have said, "thank you for that helpful observation", rather than something like "go f---- yourself if you don't understand what you catch from your children."

have you been a parent wrote:

side effect of being underweight wrote:

Perhaps that is a side effect of being underweight and not eating enough?

Probably, because no mom with a 1+ yr old has ever gone through a succession of childhood diseases. I am sure that when my son was an infant, if I had told my wife, "dear, you are sick because you are underweight and not eating enough" she would have said, "thank you for that helpful observation", rather than something like "go f---- yourself if you don't understand what you catch from your children."

Hi Gwen! You're not you when you're hungry.

She’s auctioning off swim caps. Seems like an indication that she’s going back to triathlon.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWK3-nF15R/?hl=en

She was the Triathlete Gold Medal winner talking about winning gold in the marathon in Tokyo. Now she is a 2:36 marathoner. The hype is over.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

She was the Triathlete Gold Medal winner talking about winning gold in the marathon in Tokyo. Now she is a 2:36 marathoner. The hype is over.

Meet dick. Dick debut at the marathon was 2:47 and he went on to run a 2:08 marathon.