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Poster: another mid-d guy
Subject: RE: At what body weight and above does 5k time suffer the most?
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Weezy wrote:

Also, people need to realize, different bodies will have differnt optimal weights in distance events. Just because 5 foot 4 ethiopians weight 115, doesnt mean everyone should do that


This. I'm a mid-d guy, and I'm probably even on the big side for an 800m runner. I haven't weighed less than 160 since I was in 9th grade. I spent the year after college training for and racing longer events just because I wanted to see how fast I could run 5K-half marathon. I was 180 when I set my PRs. If I'd dropped weight from there, I would have looked like a Holocaust victim. I couldn't have possibly competed at 170. Hell, I don't know if I could have survived if my weight dropped to 170.
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