New Mary Cain Video: NOP "really wasn't a good fit for me." Plus "Our sport is every other sport's punishment...."

How can someone that young have been injured for that long and have such horrible running form with such poor knee lift? Its not as if she's a distance prodigy, then I could understand the high mileage causing all the injuries.

She's going to have to become a lot tougher, both mentally and physically, and do things a lot better to ever become a championship finalist again.

I'm afraid I can't see her getting back to the top.

LetsRun.com wrote:

"I'm going to be a 60 year old woman some day and I hope she is way more kick as that my best ever runner self."

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I agree about the running form in that video looking troubling. Such a short stride and shuffling like that is odd, I don't know how anyone that formerly had such a powerful stride would look like that on a training run? Hope that isn't typical for her.

It'll be interesting to see if she can stay 100% healthy from now until next summer, what her plans will be for 2020 in this sport? I wish her the best, hope she can get some of that old magic back.

The form in that video is truly atrocious but she looks like a completely different runner in that very short clip from the 4 miler she just won.

That makes no sense wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

"I'm going to be a 60 year old woman some day and I hope she is way more kick as that my best ever runner self."

No it doesn't, and that is Wejo's fault not Mary Cain's. Wejo, I am trying to be nice, but you should really start typing on a desktop keyboard or at least a tablet. Most of your post makes no sense.

I'm confused, why is she going to train in ML? I thought she was back in school on the east coast and training with her old coach. I suppose her parents can afford to send her on training vacations but is Nike still her sponsor?

bleu wrote:

I'm confused, why is she going to train in ML? I thought she was back in school on the east coast and training with her old coach. I suppose her parents can afford to send her on training vacations but is Nike still her sponsor?

Elites often do something called training stints at altitude.

The ghost of Pat Davey wrote:

That makes no sense wrote:

No it doesn't, and that is Wejo's fault not Mary Cain's. Wejo, I am trying to be nice, but you should really start typing on a desktop keyboard or at least a tablet. Most of your post makes no sense.

Wow! How do you know he doesn't type on a descktopp. Thanks for the Fak News Meida Coverage!!!!!

Not Impressive wrote:

How can someone that young have been injured for that long and have such horrible running form with such poor knee lift? Its not as if she's a distance prodigy, then I could understand the high mileage causing all the injuries.

She's going to have to become a lot tougher, both mentally and physically, and do things a lot better to ever become a championship finalist again.

I'm afraid I can't see her getting back to the top.

What's your 5K? How long have you been running?

albeit curious wrote:

Not Impressive wrote:

How can someone that young have been injured for that long and have such horrible running form with such poor knee lift? Its not as if she's a distance prodigy, then I could understand the high mileage causing all the injuries.

She's going to have to become a lot tougher, both mentally and physically, and do things a lot better to ever become a championship finalist again.

I'm afraid I can't see her getting back to the top.

What's your 5K? How long have you been running?

14,03

8 years

Not Impressive wrote:

albeit curious wrote:

What's your 5K? How long have you been running?

14,03

8 years

Wouldn't expect anything less. Obviously. This is letsrun after all.

666 wrote:

bleu wrote:

I'm confused, why is she going to train in ML? I thought she was back in school on the east coast and training with her old coach. I suppose her parents can afford to send her on training vacations but is Nike still her sponsor?

Elites often do something called training stints at altitude.

She's not an elite.

Ouch Contraire wrote:

Servo wrote:

She is still young and can work her way out of her slump. Talent like that doesn't just go away.

Unfortunately it sometimes does.

The talent doesn't go away, the ambition does.

that may be true, but wrote:

666 wrote:

Elites often do something called training stints at altitude.

She's not an elite.

Nike contract says otherwise.

This is what years of injury does to your stride. Hopefully she learns to run un-injured again and regains some of her previous form. I know what injuries can do to your stride since it has happened to me.

LetsRun.com wrote:

The video is titles "our sport is every other sport's punishment" which is a quote from Mary in the video.

Well, it's a quote she plagiarized from every high school x-c team t-shirt.

LetsRun.com wrote:

In the video below, Cain says the NOP, "really wasn't a good fit for me. It wasn't really a mesh."

What do you think Mary meant? Could she be referring to the allegations of shadiness associated there?

I just think she felt like she fit in. She was just out of HS, everyone else was a bunch of adults who ran in college and had social connections in addition to running. It had to be pretty much culture shock.

moanswers wrote:

I just think she felt like she DID NOT fit in. She was just out of HS, everyone else was a bunch of adults who ran in college and had social connections in addition to running. It had to be pretty much culture shock.