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Nose Nowt

Would it be a good thing if this turns out to be true?  If I was BartonRunner, I'm not sure I could live with having left that talent on the couch through the 15 peak years of my life!

The fastest women's Park Run ever run was 15:58.   If BartonRunner just wore decent shoes, and removed the wind resistance of her jiggers, that would take her to 16.30...  and that's after just 6 weeks of presumably haphazard training.

Assuming that BartonRunner is not on the wind-up, she said the earliest she could do a parkrun was this weekend just gone. The fact she didn't doesn't mean much.

I look forward to the next instalment!

Screamapillar

I'm just thinking that if this were true this talent would have been spotted years ago.

Lots of people do a lot of sport very enthusiastically in their youth. It doesn't mean they have any particular talent for it but, if they have, I imagine it would be difficult to miss.

Teachers, coaches etc. aren't daft.

Tenjiso

 The last place likely to spot sporting talent would be a school.

Screamapillar

Tenjiso wrote (see)

 The last place likely to spot sporting talent would be a school.

All depends on the school. Mine sent a girl to the Olympics.

cougie

Maybe she ran parkrun today ?

Millsy

Maybe she did, but we might not get to hear about it.

Screamapillar

*Tumbleweed blows through thread....*

Millsy

I think the scilence is telling us everything we needed to know.

Big-Bad-Bob

She's too busy with Bud Baldaro to post here any more?

 

cougie

Maybe parkrun are slow with results ? That'll be it.

Grendel3

The OP suggested that her nearest Parkrun was Brockenhurst - the womans record up to now is 19:28 -

Last weeks winning time was 18:24 - (a bloke won it) first woman was 23:38 her second fasted time after 23:37)

cougie

She did say she was going to run it in a few weeks - I'd have thought the 1st of June or 8th June. The only runner in her AG that was new and not in a club did 26.10.

So maybe her watch was out by 10 mins or so ?



We need DF3 with his oarsum tracking skillz.

Dustin

If her PT had any idea of talent, she would, having verified the distance in a car, immediately have put Barton in touch with a club.

Screamapillar

I'm reminded of that Halloween episode of The Simpsons...

Sound of car door slamming and the squeal of tyres:

Floor manager: Mr Nimoy! (pause) I don't think he's coming back...