Deena Kastor on the State of US Distance Running : Speakers & Interviews
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Deena KastorDeena Kastor on the State of US Distance RunningJune 21, 2009 In the second half of Kevin Selby's interview with Deena Kastor, she talks about the current state of distance running in the United States and looks at why men are ahead of women in the marathon internationally. Deena also reflects on her keys to longevity as a distance runner for a quarter century.
Deena’s lifetime bests are: Track 3,000m - 8:42.59 5,000m - 14:51.62 10,000m - 30:52.32 Road (all are current American Records) 12 km - 38:24 10 mile - 51:31 20 km - 1:04:07 ½ Marathon – 1:07:34 Marathon - 2:19:36 About Deena Kastor
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- Bio: About Deena Kastor - Coverage: 2009 Outdoor Season On Flotrack - Coverage: 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships - Sr Interviews
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i think so!
I like the bit about women govern their training and racing by stopwatch splits. They try to control the race too much. Deena is basically saying that these women need to let go of that illusion of control to truly race well. I believe that is right on. When in a race if I get too wrapped up in split time I race like a pansy. But when I go out and get aggressive and compete with the people around me I usually do a lot better and it's far more fun.
Deena looks sooo much older than she is! It's sad.
This guy should be Flo Track's primary interviewer. He's much better than the other guys. Composed, concise and well prepared.
Good take. And I think you will be right. It’s proved true in the past. Due to greater freedom of opportunities, American women athlete’s will be the first sometimes at something and benefit in initial “world standards”, but once the rest of the world catches on, it dissipates. Pole Vault might be a recent example.
Yep, them African women will follow their male counterparts. Their societal situations will open for the women, and more and more of them will go into the pipeline of running talent. And thoroughly kick our butts with the next generations. We’ll be looking at the Galen Rupp’s of American women and congratulating ourselves on even managing to make the show, lol.
Good thing America “imported” some serious Sprint talent several hundred years ago, or we’d end up totally irrelevant on the world track scene.
We could just go "Qatar" and buy our international distance running talent you know.
In the right race I think Deena, Shalane, Kara, Shannon, or Jenny B could easily get below the A qualifier in the 5K. A few others like Sarah Hall are probably close.
10k A standard : probably just looking at Amy Yoder Begley, Deena, Shalane, and Kara.
For the 10k Flanagan, Goucher, Huddle, Rhines and Yoder Begley have the A.
For men in the 5k, Lagat, Solinsky, Vaughn, Fam and Rupp have the A. Teg does not yet have the A, but is close with 13:22, so he has the B.
For the 10k, Abdi, Rupp, Nelson, Fam and J. Torres have the A.
10k A standard : probably just looking at Amy Yoder Begley, Deena, Shalane, and Kara.
She won 2 of her 3 races so far this year, from 8k to 12k and she is always averaging 5:10 to 5:15 in hilly races. She's in great shape.
Deena is truly inspirational, if she can curse a bad running day and lace up the next anyways.... well then so can us other American women :)