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Cierra Runge: “I CanNot Wrap My Head Around What Just Happened”

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Lazy Observer
9 years ago

Maybe thebtrick to success is to train at NBAC… and then train somewhere else. Like needing pepper to activate tumeric 😉

bobo gigi
9 years ago

“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. 🙂

liquid4TheBears
Reply to  bobo gigi
9 years ago

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 »

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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