This stuff is really better in a long term T100 Series thread rather than the 'T100 Singapore' one.
Lurker4 wrote:
bulldog15 wrote:
Ajax Bay wrote:
Lawrence's happy news means she'll probably have one last hurrah in T100 SF, though I guess she might go to London to get three scores before her final semester.Do you think she'll race again? She said due in October which means February-ish
San Fran will put her at ~4 months in. Not necessarily saying you can't be fit, but do you risk that? A bike wreck or anything....
I think London, Ibiza and Las Vegas are out....
Then Dubai and Grand Final are basically a month post
I think this all but guarantees she doesn't fulfill the contract.........
Nice. I really hope she took that contract and got pregnant with this in mind. The people upset (fairly so) with Nike, I hope will insist that PTO continue to pay her.
I agree that racing feels too risky especially as
she's pretty close to the high risk age group. I would hope she'd
keep her exercise level to age group status, not superhuman pro volume/ intensity.
I actually expect and applaud the PTO for supporting her. I imagine with all the marketing they do based on athlete pay they are thrilled for Holly and this opportunity to tell that story of a pro female athlete mother to be.
The real question is 2025 if she wants to race. Will they have a spot for her? Will she maintain her contract through then?
Of course we can't expect the PTO to fix every problem in society.
On the risk of training when pregnant, I think you need to offer a bit more than an intuitive 'gosh I hope she doesn't do too much'.
In other sports we've seen women win endurance sport World Championships at 5 months pregnant. (Liisa Veijalainen is the one I know).
Clearly Lawrence is super fit and competitive right now.
And on "high risk age group" have a look at the data: they show that Lawrence at 34 has very little extra risk than the average of mothers 20-35 years old. Is there evidence that taking it easy in the middle six months improves (or even reduces) the prospect of an excellent pregnancy.
San Francisco would be real easy to get to for her; and great 'au revoir' party with her fellow pros.
PTO have a clear policy on pregnancy.
https://protriathletes.org/...ernity-leave-policy/ And one of the elements is that the athlete retains her PTO Ranking effectively from the date of announcement (well notification to Dylan/PTO) till 6 months after birth of the child (or first race if earlier), so till April 2025.
Lawrence therefore did herself a significant favour by racing so well in Miami. She only got offered a 2024 T100 contract because, at the first cut (21 Aug) she was in the PTO top 10 (just! #10). By December she was down in #21.
https://stats.protriathletes.org/athlete/holly-lawrence But with the Miami result and points she is up to #13. So that should give her a 2024 EoY bonus of $19,000 - I'm assuming they'll take her current ranking rather than her ranking "at time [she] become pregnant".
(Btw, I expect her to drop one place after Singapore because Byram will push her down into #14.)
That #13 (or #14) ranking will allow her to be an athlete offered a 2025 T100 contract come 1 December (the top ten in the T100 rankings get first bite, but #13 in the PTO rankings will assuredly get one of the 'next 6'). Whether she takes that, and commits to racing again in, say, April 2025 (missing the first T100), is less certain/up to her (of course).