Please explain how Tatyana Pozdnyakova runs so fast

In case anyone is in the area, they reshowing the marathon on LA cable channel 36 right now.

"She's AWESOME!! Too many athletes set limits based on age--obviously she hasn't. She probably doesn't read these message boards that scream: WE CAN"T, WE"RE SLOW, HE/SHE IS TOO OLD, OUR GENES ARE INFERIOR!"

Neither did Regina Jacobs.

I don't care what age she is, what she looks like, or what she's on. She ran 2:30 in that inferno yesterday..heat that the Kenyan's had a hard time dealing with...that alone is pretty impressive.

When I passed the last elite water stop there were about a dozen uncollected bottles still there and a Kenyan lying on the ground in the shade between the two tables.

If you don't care why did you ask how she runs so fast? See La Marathon thread for now on. This thread is over since the guy who started it does not care. But for those that choose to continue hope you enjoy.

Brian wrote:

"She's AWESOME!! Too many athletes set limits based on age--obviously she hasn't. She probably doesn't read these message boards that scream: WE CAN"T, WE"RE SLOW, HE/SHE IS TOO OLD, OUR GENES ARE INFERIOR!"

Neither did Regina Jacobs.

If you can't do it, then you can't do it no matter what your mind decides. So we can just throw your bogus logic in the trash.

She defies her age because she either uses drugs, or is that 1 out of a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) person that just happens to be that special.

I am going to take the odds and go with: She is using DRUGS.

I thought, given Jacobs recent positive drug test and the "visual positive" she has supplied for years, my sarcasm would have been apparent. I was pointing out that the logic defending Pozdnyakova was the same as that used to defend the cheater Jacobs until a year ago - the silly idea that people continue to improve in their 40's even after a world class running career (as if they were just sandbagging all those other competitive years) just because they want it really badly. These people seem to not realize that alot of people want it really badly but get nowhere and I guess they figure their failure proves they didn't want it badly enough. Silly confusion of cause and effect.

2:18 wrote:

I hear that the dye can get in the body some how and be used as a masking agent on dope tests.

ahhhh laughing... are you sure it wasn't the fruit loops.

Brian,

Tatyana Pozdnyakova ran a 3:56 1500 meters, the equivalent of a 2:16 marathon.

She's certainly not "improving" from her prime.

The only thing silly about that is your faulty thinking and closed mind.