Passant wrote:
Jambo Cabao wrote:
The real record to break is number of vials of EPO consumed in a career.
Why not talk about the other face you hide:
"I'm pissed that my favorite runners are not winning and those Africans are too numerous and they grab everything"
This and also Western people have hard times grappling the concept of talent for distance running.
A lot have been training really hard since they're 13 yo, made huge progress, worked up to 40-60mpw in high school, worked up to 70-90 mpw in college, worked their ass off. Just to be able to run a 32 minutes 10k.
While they have no idea that in Kenya at every street corner you'll find a 14 yo boy who has never run a mile in his life be able to run a 30 min 10k.
Western people are too caught in the protestant ethic of "hard work beat everything".
So they're easily frustrated when all their hard work only leads to above mediocrity.