Claudia Lane racing at Dartmouth

How the heck did she ever run fast in the first place? That form is so ugly and painful to watch, she has to have the national records in every distance 800m and up for a female runner with total crap form. A stride that is easily 2 feet shorter than a normal stride, pounding the crap out of the ground on each step, just bad all around.

Hope she can re-find the love of running in college and maybe open up that stride pattern a bit.

Her stride is fine and her form is fine, some of the reasons that she ran so well and will continue to do so.

There sure are a lot of ignorant posters on this website.

"Oh, she broke the world record, but her form sucks." -- Well then, get over it and move on.

Homey homer wrote:

She strikes me as someone who will be home in 2 years with no job or education.

Why would you ever say something like that? Her running is maybe not where she would like it to be but come on. Do you have any idea how her studies are going?

Lane ran similar to Mare Dibaba and unsurprisingly had a similar body type.

Her body changed - when she won nationals she was not healthy. She clearly got counseling and help. She is healthy now and did state in an interview she understands she can’t compare current results to the past - Sounds like she is mature and really learned from counseling... the thing that sucks is - the spotlight she had - and now still she runs a race and this message board Judges everything... hopefully she is happy in the sport, and happy making prs for the new her ... and hopefully let’s run Lets her enjoy it

Baka wrote:

Her body changed - when she won nationals she was not healthy. She clearly got counseling and help. She is healthy now and did state in an interview she understands she can’t compare current results to the past - Sounds like she is mature and really learned from counseling... the thing that sucks is - the spotlight she had - and now still she runs a race and this message board Judges everything... hopefully she is happy in the sport, and happy making prs for the new her ... and hopefully let’s run Lets her enjoy it

By now, I hope she doesn't care what Let's Run thinks. She should just enjoy the whole college experience.

Her parents are willing to pay $300k for an education that she could have gotten for almost nothing. It is easy to speculate about somebody that ignorant or that spoiled.

dunes runner wrote:

Her stride is fine and her form is fine, some of the reasons that she ran so well and will continue to do so.

There sure are a lot of ignorant posters on this website.

"Oh, she broke the world record, but her form sucks." -- Well then, get over it and move on.

Looks like she really needs to stretch her hip flexors and work on her thoracic mobility, but I agree she shouldn't consciously try to change her stride. General all over stretching and strengthening would probably help her.

Claudia, I sure hope you're not reading this. If by chance you are; I congratulate you on your running efforts and wish you the best of luck in all aspects of your life.

castor wrote:

Indoor? wrote:

For MS/HS girls pretty much not trying to win would almost be better. But what I really mean is not trying to win EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME. Not trying to train so hard you are attempting to break every single record possible. Name someone that has done this and it has worked well for?

Herb Elliott.

Other than the fact Elliot had the greatest track coach of all time and Claudia Lane is getting the sort of coaching we see in these videos