and no it's not "The shoes help so much with recovery!". They literally just make you significantly faster in races. It's so simple. The current crop of 16-21 year olds just refuse to accept that they're not that fast.
You're right, it is simple. The fact that runners from the 90s were inferior to those that came before (the 60s) and those that came after (the 2000s). Seems pretty simple to me.
Drew Griffin just won in 2023 - He ran a 3:57 mile. According to you not talented.
His winning time 15:06, slower than the winning time in 1989, 1991, 1994, and 1999
Take away the cheater shoes and he doesn't win 4 of the meets in the dreadful 90s.
Sorry to hear your 9:40 2 mile from 1996 doesn't impress anyone today. It's okay though, you could've maybe been have decent if you trained seriously a
That’s the point isn’t it Pumkin. All those guys from that you call slow would have kicked your ass on a cross country course.
Take away your bouncy shoes and bouncy track and you aren’t very good are you.
You're right, it is simple. The fact that runners from the 90s were inferior to those that came before (the 60s) and those that came after (the 2000s). Seems pretty simple to me.
Yet they ran the same or faster in cross country. Why is that?
Yet they ran the same or faster in cross country. Why is that?
And who cares if they did? I certainly don't, most of the people on this board don't care about times in XC, half of the elites in the world don't either. Place is the only thing that matters in XC, and regardless for the greatest runners track is the main sport.
Do you think Grant Fisher cares about his XC record or being a sub 4 HS miler more? What about running 26:33 and 12:46? Track times >>> XC times, just facts.
Sorry you had to be born in a generation where 4:30 was considered good and no HS kids ran sub 4. I can tell it's left you feeling pretty inadequate.
I would assume some of this is because in the 70s, 80's & 90's Footlocker was THE race everyone who was anyone was there and now there are what 4-5 different national meets? Most of the elite kids go where their team or NIL sends them. Usually that is now NXN. It's diluted the race pool as kids can't race 2 xc national meets in a weekend and can't qualify for them if they have a state meet/regional meet conflict.