Weight is irrelevant to performance. If you're training at a high level, your weight will be what it should be. You should not try to artificially change the number on the scale. Fitness is fitness, and who cares what you weigh. The number that matters is 26:59, not 165.
Weight is something that old school coaches would throw around because they were either sexist in their judgement of women's bodies, or as a way to avoid responsibility for an athlete's poor performances.
Weight is irrelevant to performance. If you're training at a high level, your weight will be what it should be. You should not try to artificially change the number on the scale. Fitness is fitness, and who cares what you weigh. The number that matters is 26:59, not 165.
Weight is something that old school coaches would throw around because they were either sexist in their judgement of women's bodies, or as a way to avoid responsibility for an athlete's poor performances.
True, but I really doubt he was ever 165 in his prime.
OP, get your head checked. You've now posted several separate threads fixating on various runners' weights, all within the past few hours. Who gives a d*amn what Josh Kerr, Chris Solinsky, and Grant Fisher weigh? Most people don't. They all kick ass at running. Evidence that successful runners can take on a variety of shapes and sizes, especially when PEDs are in the mix.
He was tall and muscular, so that's why he weighed that much. We were just discussing Grant Fisher in another thread and they're actually built similar from a height to weight ratio. It's just not as noticible with Fisher because he's short.
When he ran sub-27 he was noticeably thinner/lighter than in previous seasons.
This is the first I've heard of doping allegations - I don't remember hearing much about that at the time.
My analysis was that he was a hefty speed-demon who cut down those last 10lbs to extend his innate speed to 5k/10k... I could certainly be naive here.
Unfortunately, a lot of us still remember this hulking miler being pushed off the track by a 95lbs Ethiopian (Merga..(?)) during an indoor race and his "awe shucks" reaction.
The final nail in the coffin was his season/career ending injury... tripping over his dog...
Yeah, looking back now... kinda sketchy when you step back and think about it.
Weight is irrelevant to performance. If you're training at a high level, your weight will be what it should be. You should not try to artificially change the number on the scale. Fitness is fitness, and who cares what you weigh. The number that matters is 26:59, not 165.
Weight is something that old school coaches would throw around because they were either sexist in their judgement of women's bodies, or as a way to avoid responsibility for an athlete's poor performances.
Moving larger and larger amounts of mass around and oval for extended periods at high speeds creates biological problems in terms of oxygen tension & bioenergetics that can't be overcome by your wishful thinking. To think otherwise reveals your stupidity. He was and still is a huge outlier weight-wise on the sub27 list. It matters. He had the right gifts to do thing at a weight Noone else could dream of (that and Jerry's special sauce).
He was in the wrong sport with his size and aerobic abilities he should've been a XC skier or triathlete and probably would have been able to stay competitive for at least another decade. 120+ mile weeks on that sort of frame isn't the best recipe for long term health as an athlete.
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