Sherpas have thinner blood, less hemoglobin....And are better at altitude

Perhaps you can help me with the names of great Sherpa long/mid distance runners.

notrump wrote:

Perhaps you can help me with the names of great Sherpa long/mid distance runners.

There's obvi more $$ in carrying rich douches' luggage up mountains than hammering some cut rate marathon for travel + beans and a some RunningWarehouse.com gift cards.

It's obviously an easier career path to carry bags for some egotistical, half-suicidal westerner than to train rigorously and maybe get a shoe contract. The supply of rich idiots wanting to climb Everest is never ending.

joedirt wrote:

It's obviously an easier career path to carry bags for some egotistical, half-suicidal westerner than to train rigorously and maybe get a shoe contract. The supply of rich idiots wanting to climb Everest is never ending.

You posted twice in a row under different names. Why? It seems strange to me.

It's not clear that the adaption in question would help for running performance, especially at longer distances.

The suggestion is that they burn more glycogen and less fat, because that's more oxygen efficient.

But the trouble with that for marathon running could be that oxygen isn't the limiting factor. Running out of glycogen may be the more important consideration.

pr100 wrote:

It's not clear that the adaption in question would help for running performance, especially at longer distances.

The suggestion is that they burn more glycogen and less fat, because that's more oxygen efficient.

But the trouble with that for marathon running could be that oxygen isn't the limiting factor. Running out of glycogen may be the more important consideration.

Also things like percentages of different muscle fibers, physiological geometry, etc are also important and not indicated at all in this study.

It is also possible that there are no elite Sherpa runners because there are so few Sherpas, so the lottery just hasn't struck yet. If elite running genes is one in a million, if your population is 100k, you might be waiting a few generations before one comes along.

doot doot wrote:

notrump wrote:

Perhaps you can help me with the names of great Sherpa long/mid distance runners.

There's obvi more $$ in carrying rich douches' luggage up mountains than hammering some cut rate marathon for travel + beans and a some RunningWarehouse.com gift cards.

Sherpa's work one of the hardest jobs imaginable on Earth and the pay is terrible. It's also entirely seasonal.

Letsrun doesn't know anything.

notrump wrote:

Perhaps you can help me with the names of great Sherpa long/mid distance runners.

Nothing about them suggests that they would be good runners. In fact, the opposite would be true.

"In contrast, Sherpas actually have thinner blood, with less haemoglobin and a reduced capacity for oxygen (although this does have the advantage that the blood flows more easily and puts less strain on the heart).

"This shows that it's not how much oxygen you've got, it's what you do with it that counts," concludes Cambridge University’s Prof Andrew Murray, the senior author on the new study."

Morons wrote:

doot doot wrote:

There's obvi more $$ in carrying rich douches' luggage up mountains than hammering some cut rate marathon for travel + beans and a some RunningWarehouse.com gift cards.

Sherpa's work one of the hardest jobs imaginable on Earth and the pay is terrible. It's also entirely seasonal.

Letsrun doesn't know anything.

Good thing you're here to set the record straight.

Morons wrote:

doot doot wrote:

There's obvi more $$ in carrying rich douches' luggage up mountains than hammering some cut rate marathon for travel + beans and a some RunningWarehouse.com gift cards.

Sherpa's work one of the hardest jobs imaginable on Earth and the pay is terrible. It's also entirely seasonal.

Letsrun doesn't know anything.

This. Also the areas where they live aren't conducive to distance running in any way. Way too high, way too mountainous.