US jr record holder Alexa Efraimson comes close to breaking her 4 yr old PB in Shanghai

Agree that it was a promising result.

Anyone know if she's graduated by now? Maybe that's allowed her to focus more on running. Also is she still with her same high school coach, or has she found someone new?

Where was old PR from?

Can’t find wrote:

Where was old PR from?

2015 Pre Classic.

rojo wrote:

The best way to run a 1 500 is for the first lap to be slightly faster

Says who? Even splits are generally recognized as optimal for every distance longer than 800m.

D3 Miler wrote:

rojo wrote:

The best way to run a 1 500 is for the first lap to be slightly faster

Says who? Even splits are generally recognized as optimal for every distance longer than 800m.

The fastest way to run an 800 and 1500 , is negative split the first part of race.

no they dont wrote:

D3 Miler wrote:

Says who? Even splits are generally recognized as optimal for every distance longer than 800m.

The fastest way to run an 800 and 1500 , is negative split the first part of race.

For an 800 yes. But definitely not for a 1500.

And how can a national-level runner still have a pr from 11th grade??

She is still a national class runner. It doesn’t matter when she ran her PR.

She is rated #1 in the US. She ran 15.1 over the last 100m. This is only her 4th Diamond League race. She has run 5-10 x faster than the 2nd fastest NCAA athlete in history. She is now a woman, and has weathered the storm. Time to shine!

killerbees wrote:

And how can a national-level runner still have a pr from 11th grade??

Here’s the dumbest and biggest loser of the day

Dum Skit Runer wrote:

She is rated #1 in the US. She ran 15.1 over the last 100m. This is only her 4th Diamond League race. She has run 5-10 x faster than the 2nd fastest NCAA athlete in history. She is now a woman, and has weathered the storm. Time to shine!

I've seen her run many times going back to H.S. She always runs strongly, but her drawback seems to be in championship style races she doesn't have (or hasn't yet) that change of gears at the end that others seem to. Maybe she'll get that as her tactics improve, or it may be a matter of physique. Still, she was just a whisker away from making Worlds team in 2017.

She has since run 4:04.06 for 7th at the Nanjing World Challenge on 5/21. Gudaf Tsegay won in 3:59 and Hassan was 3rd in 4:00.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wUAGyZa4U

Whooooooooo Hoooooooooooo, close , to her high school PR

ghjhhh wrote:

Whooooooooo Hoooooooooooo, close , to her high school PR

Congrats. Rojo set the bait and you took it. That’s exactly the type of reaction he was trying to get with the thread title. Sheep.

Great! Sh!t on one of the US's best talents for overcoming injury and downfall to start running well again ! You are such a great person.

Alexa is a TALENT. If she had a better coach and was in a real training group, she would be a sub 4:00 athlete already. She might get there this year anyway despite not ideal situation, that’s how good she is.

We’ll see, Mike Hickey may be overrated. I hear people saying he is some kind of guru. Not sure I buy it. If he is, he better help her take the next step. It’s one thing to run faster than the NCAA field and be #1 in the US, but another to make a US Team. Get it done!

no they dont wrote:

D3 Miler wrote:

Says who? Even splits are generally recognized as optimal for every distance longer than 800m.

The fastest way to run an 800 and 1500 , is negative split the first part of race.

Well that's not true, and I don't think you are saying what you are trying to say. It is absolutely not advantageous to negative split an 800m. That you said "the first part of the race" makes me think that you meant POSITIVE split.