I love reading the naive views from people mimicking what they're told are the reasons athletes are going faster. There is no new training, it's all versions of old training repackaged....but it makes me smile.
Bi carb is not new for distance athletes, it's just been made easier to take, and mass marketable as a supplement. You are being marketed to, it's is not a reason .
Shoe tech is making a difference, and wave light is definitely aiding world record attempts, but that doesn't explain massive leaps for different athletes.
The answer is what it's always been. PEDS. It might be that more western athletes are hopping on the east African train and some balance is coming back. TBH it's about time. If you can't beat them you might as well join them.
This is what I said before (last year). It is certainly doping in some cases, we know that, but it isn't "just doping, stupid" like some people say.
The reason I am so confident is because "normal runners" have also been running a lot faster by switching to super shoes for training, super shoes for racing, super tracks, time-trial style race tactics (wavelights), bi-carb, and double threshold.
Those things work on regular runners so we also can be assured they work on good runners and great runners as well.
So yes, doping is a problem, but it doesn't explain everything.
But do you really believe in the PED concept?
Do you really believe that there is a superhuman metabolism attainable through 'doping'?
Or does the question hurt your brain too much to even think about it?
I rewatched the 2016 NCAA 1500 final yesterday, and they bragged about Issac Yorks being a 3:54 miler indoors lolllll.
Now this year, a 3:48 indoor miler can't win the NCAA 1500 outdoors, we have two HS seniors running 3:36 in one race, etc etc etc
If that game has changed here, why is it so hard to believe it's changed elsewhere? Or are these US HS and college kids to the gills too?
This is what I said before (last year). It is certainly doping in some cases, we know that, but it isn't "just doping, stupid" like some people say.
The reason I am so confident is because "normal runners" have also been running a lot faster by switching to super shoes for training, super shoes for racing, super tracks, time-trial style race tactics (wavelights), bi-carb, and double threshold.
Those things work on regular runners so we also can be assured they work on good runners and great runners as well.
So yes, doping is a problem, but it doesn't explain everything.
Yes. Double threshold and new shoes allow higher sustained training load. Before these advancements in training (and without rampant EPO) only few guys managed to run sub 12:50. The game has changed.
Just wait until a glowing Kipyegon bounces to the "first women's sub-4"... Normie media is gonna eat that nonsense right up.
But yes, as bogus as this all is, I still enjoy this era of track much more than the full-throttle EPO Geb/Tergat/Komen era where the Americans couldn't compete at all. That was just boring.
If Habz wasn't doping, I'd be surprised. I saw him running decently well indoors and thought it was nice to see him doing well but this 3:27 is too much.
If Habz wasn't doping, I'd be surprised. I saw him running decently well indoors and thought it was nice to see him doing well but this 3:27 is too much.
The guy we saw indoors this year, at Oslo last year (3’30), and finishing 4th in Rabat (3’32) is most certainly not even close to the same person as was seen yesterday in Paris. To drop 1.7 secs at age 31 acutely is curious, to say the least. Habz has hovered at 3’29-3’31 since 2021. What has changed? Training? Mindset? Other intangibles? Is this too good to be true?
But lagat got caught indeed. He was just extremely lucky to get off the hook.
I am pretty sure el g used some kind of PEDs. I can not name any north African runner in the middle distances that has not been caught...or very sus...
If Habz wasn't doping, I'd be surprised. I saw him running decently well indoors and thought it was nice to see him doing well but this 3:27 is too much.
The guy we saw indoors this year, at Oslo last year (3’30), and finishing 4th in Rabat (3’32) is most certainly not even close to the same person as was seen yesterday in Paris. To drop 1.7 secs at age 31 acutely is curious, to say the least. Habz has hovered at 3’29-3’31 since 2021. What has changed? Training? Mindset? Other intangibles? Is this too good to be true?
How do you feel about a guy who is a 3:31/3:30 high guy for 3.5 years, then lowers his PB by 3 SECONDS to 3:27.6 in a single race (going sub 3:30/3:29/3:28 all at once!), then goes back to being a 3:31 guy?