What are you getting at? My original post was intended to be ridiculous, and it used "nexus" properly. So what's your point?
What are you getting at? My original post was intended to be ridiculous, and it used "nexus" properly. So what's your point?
Pakistan FTW
rolondo wrote:
What are you getting at? My original post was intended to be ridiculous, and it used "nexus" properly. So what's your point?
That you don't have one.
And... you didn't use "nexus" properly. A nexus is between two things.
Good trolling.
Officer Notta Jag wrote:
And... you didn't use "nexus" properly. A nexus is between two things.
"Nexus" can mean the center or core of something, so there's nothing improper about "nexus of the universe". In fact, it's a fairly common phrase.
Does "troll" have any meaning? It seems like people use it to mean anything that they want. If that is the case then perhaps even Redondo could use it "correctly"?
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The way I understand it, 'nexus' usually refers to connection/link as in this case.
"The Paper seeks to focus on the nexus between lack of education and increase in crime in Kenya (developing countries..."
... or the following usage from a paper on HIV in Kenya.
As Geeta Rao Gupta of the International Center for Research on Women says,
“It is a cruel irony that, in AIDS-related illness and death, women now have
equality with men – equality that has been denied them in life.” [1] In the areas
worst hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the nexus between the scourge and
women’s economic disempowerment is clear; the less economically empowered
a woman is, the more vulnerable she is to infection by HIV.
In that context it is referring to the center of many different places. What is the nexus of an economy? The center between many different stocks??
E Africa is the nexus of the running world.
Some threads are very good here. But it seems that most are just critiques and put-downs of the previous poster. Are we that void of anything good to say, or just so stinking stuck on ourselves that we have to ALWAYS prove we are right?
East Africans (some, not all) are in some ways suited more to running long distances better than most people of European descent. (or maybe I'll write decent and let someone start a whole new tirade. LOL) But they also most likely train better. I think that there are also more of them training at this moment than there are Americans with the goal of running a 2:06 Marathon or better. So the odds are much higher that they will have success in this area.
Clell Adams wrote:
East Africans (some, not all) are in some ways suited more to running long distances better than most people of European descent. (or maybe I'll write decent and let someone start a whole new tirade. LOL) But they also most likely train better. I think that there are also more of them training at this moment than there are Americans with the goal of running a 2:06 Marathon or better. So the odds are much higher that they will have success in this area.
So what you're saying is that East Africa is the nexus of the running world.
careful... successful troll may be successful
rolondo wrote:
Exactly. Through sarcasm I was trying to illustrate that despite their prowess at distance running, East African countries aren't really accomplishing much else on the global scale. In other words, nobody gives a shit about marathon times at Rotterdam except this forum of running dorks.
You just called yourself a "dork", wow. I mean we all knew that anyway from your posts, but did you have to pile on yourself with the insults?
(oh wait, let me guess, you spend time on letsrun reading about rotterdam marathon threads but you are not one of those pathetic dorks that care about such things, right? Wrong. You are letsrun loser dork #1, or as the latins would have it, dorkus maximus.
You were "trying to illustrate" ... ha ha...now THERE is a good laugh! You couldn't "illustrate" a stick figure with your mind. Someone praises the east africans and points out their obvious dominance, and all can do is come back with: yeah, but they can't play baseball, and they are poor, ha, take THAT dumb east africans!
Give it rest jerk off. Many of the east africans we are talking about on this thread are 1000x wealthier than you. They are making some big bucks at some of these races dummy. Looks like you are slower AND poorer than them! How much do you think Geb is worth?? Loser. )
Thats a cool fun fact but does it really matter. They are good at distance events and we are a country that is good at sprints. If they were good at every event then we could have a decent conversation about how good east africans are.
I enjoy seeing the boundries of the human body pushed to the limits. I enjoy seeing records no matter who runs them.
Boston Marathon about a week away lets talk about that.
A few observations
1. East Africans get few chances to run top tier races, and when they do, they go for it. Frankfurt Marathon - +30 runners went thru the half in 1:03. Weidlinger was 10th in 2:10.
2. In the 2007-08 qualifying window for '08, Kenyan could have sent 83 3-man teams to run the marathon. 251 athletes ran <2:15. Next Ethiopia 53, Japan 48. Running 2:10 doesn't mean anything in Africa.
3. Athletes of European descent have the numbers working against them. Just as it is unlikley (but not impossible) that a marathon WR will be set by a WEST African runner, so too is it unlikely a European runner will do it.
4. Europe and the US have seen a secular decline in average top tier performances
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=3406746&thread=3406743
There have been some pops in the 5k, but generally, there is decline on an absolute basis.
Officer, you're wrong. The nexus of the world economy would be the economy that the world revolves around. For example, in about 10 years, China will be the nexus of the world economy because of their immense population and complete disregard for human rights, allowing them to work more hours and create more products than any other country. Boom, roasted.
midwesta wrote:
Officer, you're wrong. The nexus of the world economy would be the economy that the world revolves around. For example, in about 10 years, China will be the nexus of the world economy because of their immense population and complete disregard for human rights, allowing them to work more hours and create more products than any other country. Boom, roasted.
you REALLY think China is more productive?
I'll sell you that trade.
What is happening to their population growth rates?
What is their marginal productivity growth rate?
In the late 80s, the same was said of Japan, and they have MUCH stronger institutions and infrastructure. What makes anybody think China will do what Japan could not?
Wow. The whole "nexus" non-sequitor is really dumb. Possibly the worst deviation from an OP in letsrun history.
Another interesting observation is that American women are catching up in middle distance events and, to a lesser degree, in the marathon. Is this due to male chauvanism in East African keeping talent away (I have heard that it is very rare for women in the countryside to be allowed to train instead of being a homemaker, even with the extreme benefits of prize money)? Or is it something else?
Also, the East African onslaught of sub 2:10 performances is a recent development. Five years ago, you would never see multiple sub 2:06s in a race. What are they doing differently?
Finally, genetic differences are an easy way to explain the dominance. But the East Africans are in the process of redifining the marathon. Nothing in their genetics has change over the past ten years, but the top times have been dropping and more runners are hitting sub 2:10s like it is a training run. Have the East Africans really just been running faster or are they doing something now that they did not do a few years ago?