Using Desi, two-time Olympian, to refute this argument is laughable at best.
Desi also has a Pan Am medal bc just about every American athlete who wants one can have one.
Using Desi, two-time Olympian, to refute this argument is laughable at best.
Desi also has a Pan Am medal bc just about every American athlete who wants one can have one.
aa wrote:
Using Desi, two-time Olympian, to refute this argument is laughable at best.
Desi also has a Pan Am medal bc just about every American athlete who wants one can have one.
Oh yeah and Desi was a runner-up at Boston well before her win there and she had excellent coaching for both. Not a whole lot of similarities with Lindsay Flanagan, whose coach is also responsible for Sarah Crouch's Boston outcome.
Maybe cause some runners prefer to do their own thing and not be constrained by a group? There’s enough elites in Boulder to be able to have training partners when you want to, while training on your own too. No need to make it out to be more than that. She’s someone who could break through any moment with a bit more support.
truth be told. wrote:
Maybe cause some runners prefer to do their own thing and not be constrained by a group? There’s enough elites in Boulder to be able to have training partners when you want to, while training on your own too. No need to make it out to be more than that. She’s someone who could break through any moment with a bit more support.
Well that's simply the age we're living in, ain't no chicken without involving an egg. The most accomplished and best-paid active runner in Boulder isn't doing it lone wolf freelance style, and that's no accident. Boulder may be good for that sort of thing, Flagstaff too, but Frank Shorter or his female equivalent isn't what we're talking about here.
Maybe cause some runners prefer to do their own thing and not be constrained by a group? There are enough elites in Boulder to be able to have training partners when you want to, while training on your own too. No need to make it out to be more than that. She’s someone who could break through any moment with a bit more support.
Ms. Flanagan deserves sponsorship. Mr. Cox is everything that is wrong with tthe business side of the sport. A guy that learned from the Rosa's of the world. Slimey and dirty and heavily involved in the drugs of the sport.
Ms Flanagan improved dramatically from her days at Washington because of her involvement with Riadha. In other words she became a 2:29 marathoner and a medalist in the PanAm games all while being part of a training group. She left the group and has maintained but has no longer improved as an athlete.
She will never receive a sponsorship with Adidas, Nike, Brooks, New Balance, Saucony or Asics. This is partially because of her management team as Mr. Cox has burned quite a few bridges and she has not improved on her own.
Welp, the agent is employed by and works for the athlete. The athlete is the boss.
Fan of the sport wrote:
I'm not either person that you mentioned. I simply looked up her results on the IAAF profile out of curiosity from this thread (saw that her name was spelled wrong) and made the opinion that she's been pretty consistent. I've coached some folks that have competed in international championships and would say that she could hold her own.
Just curious are you female or male marathon runner? What axe do you have to grind? Why is the running world so negative and loves to cut down their own? I've never understood that.
Most people here are just obscure wanna be pros with lots of jealousy. Learn to ignore and pitty them. Hope that answers your inquiry.
aa wrote:
Creepy to come on her and talk about your date with her.
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Boulder has plenty of training partners but NO MONEY. Great community that appreciates athletes but NO MONEY.
A 2:29 female or a 2:11 male can only earn a living if they are part of a training group.
Hoka NAZ or Hanson’s or Zap are about your only options for a marathoner at that level to get a real contract. Or they can get an equipment deal from Oiselle or Rabbit or Tracksmith or Altra or some other small company that will never pay the bills.
...... or maybe the growing list of major sponsors who are very wary of being affiliated in any way with Magness (and his passive aggressive rally against the establishment nature, along with his twitchy finger pointing campaign) is a “con” on the pros/cons list that her 2:29 hasn’t been able to overcome.
Different coach and a move to Flynn as her agent and boom a contract happens pretty quickly.
You nailed it. Flynn or Ratcliffe or Lilot or Keflezghi or anyone but Josh Cox.
Hey Reed Fischer any closer to a contract? You will be strung along until you learn that it is all a con.
Another Cox victim wrote:
You nailed it. Flynn or Ratcliffe or Lilot or Keflezghi or anyone but Josh Cox.
Hey Reed Fischer any closer to a contract? You will be strung along until you learn that it is all a con.
Wow, things change, huh? Now Lindsay and Reed have contracts. This didn't age well.
Jajajajajajaja wrote:
Another Cox victim wrote:
You nailed it. Flynn or Ratcliffe or Lilot or Keflezghi or anyone but Josh Cox.
Hey Reed Fischer any closer to a contract? You will be strung along until you learn that it is all a con.
Wow, things change, huh? Now Lindsay and Reed have contracts. This didn't age well.
Not exactly a sharp comeback, given how both fared at the OT. Flanagan finished 12th, behind unsponsored Nell Rojas and career nurse Sarah Sellers, about as much shot at the team as other former Asics-sponsored alsorans like Bria Wetsch and Becky Wade. Good on her phat agent for pulling it off, though! They'll be shopping again in 2022.