At least where I live they have, I look at results 15 years ago and if you ran 20 minutes you would have gotten 40th place and the top ten was usually 17 minutes or faster. now a day the top ten is usually around 23 minutes. Is it because there more 5k races now or are all the good runners now just running marathons or it could just be my area.
Better testing
Air density and gravity have both increased.
I think the 5ks are now more the fun runs and the 8k (5 milers), 10ks, 15ks (10 milers), 1/2 marathons and marathons are drawing the better runners now since there are more of them than their used to be.
There's too many of them and most of the people don't train
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Better testing
It's the biological passport program
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
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