Chris 'Froomey Froome Dog' Froome is Kenyan.
Chris 'Froomey Froome Dog' Froome is Kenyan.
The Overexplainer wrote:
I can never understand why people say this kind of thing (that pure-runners training is inferior or that there is some "new" type of training that is practiced now that is superior to what men did in the '70s, 80s, 90s or 2000s). Think for a moment that breathtaking 1500, Mile, 3k, 2M, 5k, and 10k WRs were all set 20 years ago (Bekele has since shaded 2 of them but even that was 13 years ago now). Even the 800m WR was set 6 years ago now.
It seems like if there is any "new training" it was discovered in 1993 with Yobes Ondeiki and Moses Kiptanui and continued with Gebrselassie, Tergat, Komen and El Guerrouj.
The marathon standard has improved to the point that you could be as good as Tergat was and never win a major marathon. Indeed Tergat himself only won 3 marathons. But we all know why this has happened and continues to happen.
So don't be so quick to assume that "training" is the reason when you see an astounding performance. In this case it looks like Talent or what used to be called "natural-ability". And this performance is astounding. It appears he ran 13:37 at 19 and now 27:51 at 20. Ritz ran 13:27 at 19 and 27:38 at 22.
I would love to believe that improvements in training were the main reason that distance times in the 90s were so great, but it increasingly looks like it was an outlier of an era similar to the 70s and 80s for female sprinters.
Juniprsfe wrote:
age graded wrote:
Chelanga of course is a massive outlier in the NCAA records
I am so sick of you racists calling foreigners liers. Sick of it.
IF you are serious (can’t judge your sarcasm), I think you misunderstood what is meant by ‘outlier’. It has nothing to do with lying. His performance is well ahead of the curve. It ‘lies outside’ of what others do (i.e. it is not a good example).