Why do so many gifted teenage female distance runners fizzle out by their early 20s, unable to capture the speed of their youth?
By Matthew Futterman, New York Times
It’s not clear exactly when a high school sophomore named Katelyn Tuohy became the next great phenom in American distance...
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"Yeah, I think just in that I learned what I should and shouldn’t expect as a runner and I learned what I can and can’t balance as an athlete in terms of training, expectations, and experiences and all that sort of stuff."
By Jonathan Gault, LetsRun.com
On Wednesday afternoon, Mary Cain...
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Mile record setter Katelyn Tuohy, a sophomore at North Rockland High School in New York, has been winning by astonishing margins this cross country season
By John A. Kissane, Runner's World
One summer day in 2012, a cross country coach caught sight of a small girl running with her father. He...
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North Rockland teen breaks Mary Cain's New York state freshman record: “Knowing I can hit her times gives me motivation.”
By Nancy Haggerty, Lohud
She had already broken two of Mary Cain's freshman records and had come very close to breaking others.
On Sunday, North Rockland’s Katelyn Tuohy...
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