Nikki Hiltz sabotaged her potential US competitors!

NFW wrote:

Anyone else pick up on what she pulled last night?

Race goes out with her teammate performing rabbiting duties, she shoots straight into 2nd place, and then proceeds to pump the breaks and creep through the 2nd lap in 69 seconds. The end result was that people like Dani Jones, Karisa Nelson, and Elise Cranny never had a shot at qualifying.

She rarely runs so close to the front in previous races, so the intent was fairly evident.

Calculated or shady move?

I always get a good laugh from people saying that one person made the whole field slow down in a distance race. People said Mo was capable of this as well. It ain't a one lane track.

Also, it's "brakes" that are pumped when slowing down.

I always get a good laugh from people saying that one person made the whole field slow down in a distance race. People said Mo was capable of this as well. It ain't a one lane track.

Also, it's "brakes" that are pumped when slowing down.[/quote]

The difference here is she was taking part in a race specifically rabbited for women to hit the standard, not a tactical championship.

Thanks for the spell check, you're quite the scholar.

Didn't see anything weird. She trusts her finish. Why do all the work for everyone else? That is what the pacer is for.

Now on another note...

Colleen Quigley seems to be constantly lifting, swimming, core, strengthening... yet she has the most upper body rotation of anyone in the field. Kind of flailing. I can't say for sure that all that rotation is necessarily bad, but it seems inefficient.

NFW wrote:

Anyone else pick up on what she pulled last night?

Race goes out with her teammate performing rabbiting duties, she shoots straight into 2nd place, and then proceeds to pump the breaks and creep through the 2nd lap in 69 seconds.

She was behind the rabbit and somehow made the rabbit slow down? That's some otherworldly power. She should use that power instead to just win every race she enters.

I heard she was telling people there was a dragon outside the stadium that would burn anyone who ran in lane two. That's what kept them all from passing her.

post nups wrote:

NFW wrote:

Anyone else pick up on what she pulled last night?

Race goes out with her teammate performing rabbiting duties, she shoots straight into 2nd place, and then proceeds to pump the breaks and creep through the 2nd lap in 69 seconds. The end result was that people like Dani Jones, Karisa Nelson, and Elise Cranny never had a shot at qualifying.

She rarely runs so close to the front in previous races, so the intent was fairly evident.

Calculated or shady move?

I always get a good laugh from people saying that one person made the whole field slow down in a distance race. People said Mo was capable of this as well. It ain't a one lane track.

Also, it's "brakes" that are pumped when slowing down.

Exactly. Sorry, zero sympathy for anybody chasing the standard who ran the 2nd lap too slow.

NFW wrote:

I always get a good laugh from people saying that one person made the whole field slow down in a distance race. People said Mo was capable of this as well. It ain't a one lane track.

Also, it's "brakes" that are pumped when slowing down.

The difference here is she was taking part in a race specifically rabbited for women to hit the standard, not a tactical championship.

Thanks for the spell check, you're quite the scholar.[/quote]

The type of race doesn't change the inability of one person to slow everyone down materially in a 1500m. It was still not a 1 lane track. They can go around her.

Yeah this isn’t Hiltz fault at all. It’s not her duty to hammer laps 2-3 because she has the standard and others don’t. If they want it they gotta go get it. There was a rabbit.

She's devious wrote:

I heard she was telling people there was a dragon outside the stadium that would burn anyone who ran in lane two. That's what kept them all from passing her.

Haha! This!

That last comma should have been a semicolon. C'mon man.

All you have to do is pass her when she slows down.

I didnt see the race, but I thought tracks were 8 lanes wide. Anyone could of easily gone around her and ran whatever pace they wanted. If any of the racers are complaining like the OP, they need to stop playing the victim and take responsibility for themselves.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

the men’s race

The red wizard wrote:

She's devious wrote:

I heard she was telling people there was a dragon outside the stadium that would burn anyone who ran in lane two. That's what kept them all from passing her.

Haha! This!

The old lane two dragon ploy. No wonder the lamebrains are pissed off.

*stipe wrote:

Colleen Quigley seems to be constantly lifting, swimming, core, strengthening... yet she has the most upper body rotation of anyone in the field. Kind of flailing. I can't say for sure that all that rotation is necessarily bad, but it seems inefficient.

It's not. Your upper body is supposed to rotate during running. See The Balanced Runner blog for more info.

Who cares? She dominated that race. If the other runners wanted the world standard, maybe they should have actually gone for it. Cry me a river. Hiltz is a beast and is crushing it/was gonna win that race regardless of the time or pacing.

NFW wrote:

Anyone else pick up on what she pulled last night?

Race goes out with her teammate performing rabbiting duties, she shoots straight into 2nd place, and then proceeds to pump the breaks and creep through the 2nd lap in 69 seconds. The end result was that people like Dani Jones, Karisa Nelson, and Elise Cranny never had a shot at qualifying.

She rarely runs so close to the front in previous races, so the intent was fairly evident.

Calculated or shady move?

It kind of sounds like you’ve never run a race before.

No bs board wrote:

I didn't see the race, but I thought tracks were 8 lanes wide. Anyone could of easily gone around her and ran whatever pace they wanted. If any of the racers are complaining like the OP, they need to stop playing the victim and take responsibility for themselves.

Lots of people on this thread who were clearly never good enough to go to the front of a rabbited race. Yes, of course any athlete has the power to take on the race. But in reality, most athletes are understandably hesitant to, particularly in the early stages of the race. If someone goes to the front of the pack and slows down, the race is likely to slow down, it's not rocket science and there's a reason why that trend is rarely broken by a selfless, sacrificial surge to the front.

Perhaps not shocking that reality isn't the concern of the armchair athletes on these boards.

I understand that people are hesitant to lead and that causes races to slow down. But one person can't make everyone slow down appreciably. That they are hesitant to go around Hiltz isn't Hiltz's fault.