Not Done Just Yet wrote:
My Quals:
In the late 1970s and early 1980s I also competed at racewalking the national level (and a few European races). I had one national Junior Championship, was on two National Championship Team (one of which was at the 50k Olympic distance), and won one Open National Championship. (For reference, my PR in the marathon when I got back into running laterandI was just short of 40 was in the 2:40s). I regularly trained RWing up to 80-110 miles a week. Now I am back to running just 47-50 as an old guy.
Excellent post showing just how absurdly irrelevant race walking is. A guy who couldn't run under 240 in his late 30s was a racewalking national champion.