The irony of this is that it's the same point *everyone* is making to you but it hasn't stopped you from casting aspertions (ad nauseum) that Ruthe can't possibly be this good because he hasn't been training long enough or with [what you consider] the requisite mileage.
That isn't why I am sceptical about his performances. There are a bunch of reasons. But that isn't the topic of this thread. I simply make the observation that what he says he has experienced is typically a feature in those who are gifted. It doesn't make him more gifted or less gifted.
Com'on man. It's precisely the reason you've stated as being sceptical. How many times have you mentioned how long he's been running and his mileage? It's incessant.
That isn't why I am sceptical about his performances. There are a bunch of reasons. But that isn't the topic of this thread. I simply make the observation that what he says he has experienced is typically a feature in those who are gifted. It doesn't make him more gifted or less gifted.
Com'on man. It's precisely the reason you've stated as being sceptical. How many times have you mentioned how long he's been running and his mileage? It's incessant.
Stop the gaslighting.
It's quite a simple point, I would thought. Ruthe has talked about experiencing a sense of giftedness when he ran. It doesn't make him unique. Others who are gifted have often experienced the same. It has nothing to do with his mileage. That is a completely separate issue.
Com'on man. It's precisely the reason you've stated as being sceptical. How many times have you mentioned how long he's been running and his mileage? It's incessant.
Stop the gaslighting.
It's quite a simple point, I would thought. Ruthe has talked about experiencing a sense of giftedness when he ran. It doesn't make him unique. Others who are gifted have often experienced the same. It has nothing to do with his mileage. That is a completely separate issue.
It's quite a simple point, I would thought. Ruthe has talked about experiencing a sense of giftedness when he ran. It doesn't make him unique. Others who are gifted have often experienced the same. It has nothing to do with his mileage. That is a completely separate issue.
Some are more gifted than others
That is a banality scarcely worth stating. But whatever the level of giftedness, it stands out. It is also to be found amongst others who are similarly gifted. All world class athletes have to be gifted. The margins between them will be very small.
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More interesting to me than actual talent was training response. Some runners annually would go from scrubs at the beginning of the season to sub-elite with 6 weeks of training, others (like me) easily beat them at first, but never seemed to get much better with similar training. Who is more 'talented'?
My grad school mentor at Arizona... Jack H. Wilmore had an interesting analogy for this.
I paraphrase a bit here.
He said... "If you want to be a center in the NBA... you pretty much have to have the genetics that make you a 7 footer." And everyone out there can see that you are 7 feet tall.
In elite distance running. You have to have similar off the charts genetics as that 7 footer does for height but in other physiological areas. But nobody can see that you have those until you start running. And in some cases actually train for a while."
He then went on and talked about Lydiard having three gold medalists who grew up within a couple of miles of each other and said... "While just about every 7 footer out there finds a basketball court out there at some point in their life... there are potentially elite runners out there that never pick up the sport of running because they have no idea that they are gifted."