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 »