No. I wouldn't even know what kind of training the people I race at the local 5k is doing. I don't follow anyone on Strava and my profile is totally private.
No. I wouldn't even know what kind of training the people I race at the local 5k is doing. I don't follow anyone on Strava and my profile is totally private.
I got irritated back in middle school when a teammate whom I had buried in training and meets for 12-16 months suddenly began stealing the shovel from me and knocked me out cold.
Turns out that his nature and nurture and build were way more conducive to speed at that time, and probably always for endurance, compared to mine. When he hit his late puberty in late 8th grade, it was lights-out and yours truly here couldn’t deal with the ego blow. Now it’s an instructive story
A running start is worth over a second for 100m. That said the fastest 5000m runner at WCs could probably break 11 with a running start. None of them could run under 12.2 from the blocks
There is shallow talent, and there is deep talent. Shallow talent can get away with low mileage. Deep talent requires volume to show itself. I ran 34:18 10K on my college coach's 50mpw plan, but sub-31 and much better marathon equivalents once I was on my own 100-120mpw plan.
Why would I get upset because someone lucked out and ended up with better biology?