Grizzly adams did have a beard.
Grizzly adams did have a beard.
ventolin^3 wrote:
Grizzly adams did have a beard.
But Tommy Smothers did NOT. I rest my case.
The idea that the less energy required to run downhill compared with the energy required to run flat is equivalent to the extra energy required to run uphill may be correct as related to a rolling ball on a frictionless plane, but that has no room for a human body while running.
I don't know the stride kinematics, whether it changes the RPM of runners and their stride lengths to varying degrees which ultimately hinders performance.
The anthropology behind humans as distance runners seems to favor the idea that we adapted to running over a flat savanna plain. The flat savanna plain would be what we are best adapted to.
I strongly doubt that the human can expend the same amount of energy or torque his muscles with the same amount of force or keep the same heart rate or accumulate the same amount of lactic acid or accrue the same amount of body heat or keep his central governor at the same level of confidence on hills as the human can on flat ground.
The testing ground for this experiment would be, to reiterate an earlier claim, make a gently rolling track and have thousands of people of similar ability, shape, fitness level, and training background run both tracks for PR attempts without the runners knowing which track they are on to serve as a blind for placebo. It ain't happening.
transmara wrote:
deriba merger, robert kiprono cheruiyot partying after 2010 boston marathon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF1xdfX9XM
2009!
Surely the proof is in the fact someone ran 2:05 at Boston? Does anyone honestly believe he would have run 2:01 or 2:02 at Berlin? No. Maybe 2:04 high? Well then it's nearly as fast!
Simples wrote:
Surely the proof is in the fact someone ran 2:05 at Boston? Does anyone honestly believe he would have run 2:01 or 2:02 at Berlin? No. Maybe 2:04 high? Well then it's nearly as fast!
ha ha, now THERE is some logic and a great "proof" for us! Maybe he could have run 2:04 low ( Kwabai and Kibet broke 2:04:30, and I don't see any reason to think they are superior to R.C. the younger). If so, then that's ~ 1:30 faster than a flat course, which is NOT "nearly as fast" (unless you define "nearly in marathon running as anything within 2 minutes. I would define as within 30 seconds).