Why can't Americans break the world record in the 1500?

You were asked before to provide evidence but you failed to provide any apart from a paper which claimed that EPO improved athletic ability.

Sorry, but I think it's back to 1st grade science for you or maybe the church of scientology.

Jon Orange wrote:

stop it now wrote:

Yes you can. To say otherwise is to say that pharmacology does not exist.

I'm not saying that drugs don't have effects. But to make the claim that some drugs improve athletic performance shows a lack of knowledge of physiology. You are making a grand leap into a new world of belief that ignores what really improves performance, namely improved efficiency of movement.

It's a question of conceptual models of performance. If you don't know your physiology, which 99.999% of people don't it's easy to construct a drug mythology around the sport.

If you don't know your physiology you should leave it to those who do.

If it was beneficial to be able to outrun a Grizzly bear(and it is), why doesn't the body just produce more efficiency?

Let's start with - why can't Americans break the AMERICAN record in the 1500 before worrying about the world record?

Because the 1500 world record is really, really fast.

Bears have four legs humans have two. Next question.

I'm onto it

Why can't we outrun an Ostrich? Because they are more efficient runners.

If the body produces natural painkillers why doesn't it just ramp that up when someone has metastasizing terminal cancer?

It probably does, but that won't kill cancer cells.

drugs improve your nature, as it were.

What? Are you high?

Jon Orange wrote:

Kip Keino and Filbert Bayi both set world records in the 1500.

I'm afraid Keino never held the 1500 or mile world records, and Bayi was neither Kenyan nor Ethiopian. He was from Tanzania.

Yes, you're right Deano.

Jon Orange wrote:

Bears have four legs humans have two. Next question.

I'm onto it

Why can't we outrun an Ostrich? Because they are more efficient runners.

Why can an Ostrich outrun a Bear?

Timothy Treadpoorly wrote:

Jon Orange wrote:

Bears have four legs humans have two. Next question.

I'm onto it

Why can't we outrun an Ostrich? Because they are more efficient runners.

Why can an Ostrich outrun a Bear?

drugs

Why can nobody on Earth run away from Usain Bolt? Is he more efficient than everyone else?

Ryun was also cut from the track team for having run a 57 as a freshman!!!

Nope, Keino never set a world record at 1500. He set 3k and 5k records. The world record Ryun broke was Herb Elliot's from 1960.

Jon Orange wrote:

Kip Keino and Filbert Bayi both set world records in the 1500.

You young guns want to break the WR in the 1500/mile?

Here is the formula:

Run 100 miles per week w/ at least one "speed development day" per week.

Do that while only having two racing periods per year of perhaps 10 races each. (Interval training is done hard for six weeks/easier for 4 weeks leading to the racing period.)

Do that from age 15 to 30.

Then you can start cutting the volume a little bit, and do a little more interval training leading up to an Olympic final. You must run by feel, not by time!

(Talent will be needed and a coach will need to monitor the athlete. It will only happen if the athlete and coach know the difference between "speed development" and interval training. There are many types of both.)

This may never happen as most of us do not have this kind of patience.

Sydney Maree did break the world 1500 record in 1983, but I don't think he was an American citizen then. Steve Scott was less than half a second from Coe's mile world record in 1982.

Because the World record is 3:26 set by a Morroccan and Americans only run about 3:30 or :31.

End of Thread.

You may as well ask "Why didn't WW2 end sooner?"