Ezrun wrote:
Better competition up front at foot locker and a more dominant win. Also produced a higher speed rating. Without mentioning her body of work over 3 years you can not beat that argument.
There wasn't better competition at Foot Locker
There was better competition at nxn it's just a fact
Way more state champions. And more top ranked girls
Not the best thing to do to start off your argument with a lie or unfactual statement
Both races were fairly close
Tuohy won an Incredibly Close race against slightly better competition
Dudek won a close race against slightly worse competition
Tuohy was undefeated all year. Had a way bigger a margin of Victory against equally good or maybe even better Runners all year and had significantly better speed ratings. She also set a course record at Great American
If we're just going to make stuff up and we can all just pick our favorite Runners butt Tuohy was the best runner looking at the whole season. They just did it for publicity[/quote]
More state champions? thats what you pick to debate? I've had teammates in college who ran slower than 4:40 and won state Those were guys too. Not a good Measurement of the better competition. If you completely disregard the runners PR's and look how runners fared in BOTH races and how they did against dudek and tuohy Dudek was more dominant.Dudek definitely had a better race than tuohy. My favorite runner didn't win footlocker or nxn btw lol. Foot locker had better front runners though.
keep in mind I am mainly talking about how they fared at the national championships. I did not follow their seasons closely and honestly We do not know when they are trying their hardest or not during the season. EX. Nico young Claiming he wasn't going all out when he missed German Fernandez's record. ( which I do not think he would have gotten regardless). Even if you say Dudek beat people because they ran at NXN its irrelevant because she ran at the Euro U 20 championships the week prior to that. We will never truly know just like we don't know who would have won between Tuohy and Lane a few years ago.
IMO I just think so many people are not being objective and only looking at this year. They are counting the last 3 years.