belligerent_runner wrote:
You only make this kind of post if you are a miserable person. Are you just seeking to discourage others from pursuing a meaningful goal? VO2max is trainable, and not even the primary factor for genetic potential in distance running. Anyway, a person shouldn’t worry about their potential. Potential is a thing which can be properly assessed only in hindsight. Which means you have to actually go after it with everything in you in order to know. Even Jakob has not reached his potential, despite his methodical training approach and many years of training. Instead of whining about your terrible genetics, maybe apply yourself and stop thinking you know everything about how to train and recover. It’s likely a mental block which is preventing you from making meaningful progress. Humble yourself and encourage others. There is nothing to be gained from spreading negativity.
Just out of interest…how is your goal meaningful?
Are you getting paid? Will your race exploits be on the national / local news? Have you got a scholarship / endorsement? Outside of these, I can’t see how they would be meaningful to anyone other than yourself or the few “buddies” you have that do the same activity. In my own personal experience, even family members and friends only take a brief “passing” interest, before moving on with their own lives. Sometimes they don’t do that even. Is your experience different? Do you have a festival of a month long celebration, where you tour the neighbourhood, being lauded and appreciated, when you beat a PB in a local race? If so, then carry on my friend, you truly have a blessed life.
I ask, because I can’t see your point. Is there something that I have missed?