Alright, life is crazy, but I had to write this post and put some closure on this whole thing. So basically what it comes down to, cutting to the chase of Jennifer Toomey, is that her story, I think is even more incredible than what I'm trying to do. Maybe...
Turns out she was a really good athlete in high school and college, but not in running, nor was it anything close to running. Jennifer Toomey was a diver. She was a state champion, then went on to dive in college. It wasn't until she was 27 (in 1998) that she started running. Her friend made a bet with her that he could beat her in the Boston Marathon, so she started running. She joined the local running club, was noticed by the coach as someone with quick strides and in 1998 ran an 800 meter time of 2:14. 2 years later in 2000, she had dropped her time to a 2:00.38 and placed 5th in the Olympic Trial semifinals. In 2004 she was incredible. According to Jen Toomey's USATF Bio: "she became the only athlete ever to win the middle-distance double at the USA Indoor championships. Toomey won the 800 and 1500m at 2004 USA Indoors, then placed 4th at World Indoors in a personal best time of 1:59.64 with an American record for 1,000m under her belt as well (2:34.19)."
Anyways, I guess the fact that she won a state championship in something in high school kind of disqualifies her from Ed Eyestone's theory. But at the same time, she did it in diving. I don't know a ton about diving, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of carry-over from it to running, just saying.
Turns out she was a really good athlete in high school and college, but not in running, nor was it anything close to running. Jennifer Toomey was a diver. She was a state champion, then went on to dive in college. It wasn't until she was 27 (in 1998) that she started running. Her friend made a bet with her that he could beat her in the Boston Marathon, so she started running. She joined the local running club, was noticed by the coach as someone with quick strides and in 1998 ran an 800 meter time of 2:14. 2 years later in 2000, she had dropped her time to a 2:00.38 and placed 5th in the Olympic Trial semifinals. In 2004 she was incredible. According to Jen Toomey's USATF Bio: "she became the only athlete ever to win the middle-distance double at the USA Indoor championships. Toomey won the 800 and 1500m at 2004 USA Indoors, then placed 4th at World Indoors in a personal best time of 1:59.64 with an American record for 1,000m under her belt as well (2:34.19)."
Anyways, I guess the fact that she won a state championship in something in high school kind of disqualifies her from Ed Eyestone's theory. But at the same time, she did it in diving. I don't know a ton about diving, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of carry-over from it to running, just saying.
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