On Thursday evening in Federal Way, Washington, Cal freshman Cierra Runge shocked the nation and broke the NCAA Record in the women’s 500 free with a 4:31.90.
After her race, Runge spoke briefly about her swim, and the absolute shock that she was in (and still seemed to be in) about her record-setting performance.
Maybe thebtrick to success is to train at NBAC… and then train somewhere else. Like needing pepper to activate tumeric
“shoked the nation”?
The words have meaning.
Seriously Braden, and you are a very serious man, are you shocked by that so predictable record after what we saw from her last summer and especially after the way she led-off Cal 4X200 free relay in 1.42 on day 1?
If yes, then I don’t understand anything.
I was somewhere between surprised and shocked, myself. In general I don’t like to predict too much because sometimes I just love the surprises. But in this case, in my mind I factored in freshman college academic and cultural adjustment and figured from her mid-season time that she stood to challenge McLean and break her NC2A record, but wasn’t even thinking about it for PAC-12s, only vaguely for NC2As. I saw her recent slow times the last couple weeks and given that she’s a distance swimmer, I figured she would probably pretty much train right thru PAC-12s and start her rest/taper right after. So yeah, a bit shocked!! And taking our cues from her own shocked state, sounds like she’s… Read more »