oboesausage wrote:
amkelley wrote:Right. I was nowhere near elite status, but I ran a lifetime best of 18:10 and was still running 21:XX at age 50.
Its because you were no where near elite.
First thing to remember that really running elite pace wheres the body down. You never raised a sweat when it came to time keeping. That means you have plenty left in the tank.
Many of us elite guys can barely walk properly. We left it on the track when it was meaningful.
You jogged around and cheer about your multi decade endurance.
Makes me glad that there never was and never will be a meaningful time to trash my body running. No sour grapes, and I can cheerfully hobby jog off into the sunset. I have known several people who have been to the olympics, or on national teams, but not olympic level . They don't have a lot more to show for it that I would break my legs for. When and if they can't run anymore, it usually doesn't have as much to do with their elite days, as the days after they were no longer elite. Most just don't care anymore once they are past their prime, they didn't destroy themselves.
Plenty of almost made it wannabes run themselves in the ground running elite like paces and volume only now and then if ever. What a bad trip that would be.