The various nilotic groups of South sudan, southern Ethiopia and eastern Chad generally have the darkest skin colours among Africans - groups like the Dinka, Nuer, and Anyuak have some of the darkest, smoothest, almost totally flawless skin pigmentation in Africa. Some Senegalese groups also have very dark skin tones, though generally not as dark as the Sudanese.
I was trying to think of the Dinka tribe, before I was accused of racism.
I'm sorry you find discussing pigmentation so difficult.
Maybe new to area and looking for a gym to join. Maybe runs in the morning. Maybe trying to make conversation. Probably realized by your response you are a tool.
I don't know the OP or how much a "stone" is but the point is valid on some level.
As runners, we all wish we were faster, leaner, etc. When you meet someone who is built for running (lean, long Achilles tendons, no body fat, narrow hips, etc.) and find out they AREN'T runners, it seems like a waste of potential.
It doesn't have to be tied to race at all but it is tied to body-type. If the OP is the doughy runner (on the left) and his co-worker is one of these other guys, it makes sense to wonder, "Why don't your run? You'd be soooo good."
Maybe new to area and looking for a gym to join. Maybe runs in the morning. Maybe trying to make conversation. Probably realized by your response you are a tool.
Maybe new to area and looking for a gym to join. Maybe runs in the morning. Maybe trying to make conversation. Probably realized by your response you are a tool.
I was completely polite obviously.
Nope, said he doesn't run.
He probably has a real life and doesn't worry about finding an activity that lines up with your preconceived notions about his black skin and slender calves.
Lower leg ratio. It is very uncommon to see a person with a shorter, heavier lower leg who is also a good distance runner. Maybe you can phrase it better. You know what I mean.
It is well explained in the book The Sports Gene. It isn't really controversial. Also science:
Previous studies have reported that absolute upper and lower legs in the East African endurance runners, who have superior running performance and running economy, are longer than those in endurance runners of other regions. ... They also reported that absolute and relative total lengths (normalized with body height) of the upper and lower legs were positively correlated with running performance. Moreover, Laumets reported that a longer absolute lower leg was related to better running economy in Caucasian endurance runners. Since leg length affects stride length, longer legs can ensure that endurance runners run more efficiently by devoting less energy to leg acceleration.
The present study aimed to determine the relationship between leg bone length and running performance in well-trained endurance runners. The lengths of the leg bones in 42 male endurance runners (age: 20.0 ± 1.0 years, body h...
Why is everyone so hostile? On Monday I talked to a couple after I had finished my run and they asked me if I was training for something. We chatted and I "assumed" they were runners because they were both very tall and lean.
I asked them how they were connected to the sport and they said they had both run D3 at Hofstra. I would not have asked them that if they had looked different.
Was that "racist" to assume they were runners based on their looks? That is what I did... They were white, btw.
He probably has a real life and doesn't worry about finding an activity that lines up with your preconceived notions about his black skin and slender calves.
pReCoNcEiVeD nOtiOnS. Wow you sound so smart and enlightened.
So I'm leaving work in a vest and split shorts and a new guy from a different department (who is very thin and black and looks a bit like Wilson Kipsang) asks if I'm going to the gym?
I so I'm not, and say I'm going running, but he says "Oh.. OK
Why doesn't he run? He weighs about 10 stone max and I'm disappointed.
Makes me annoyed to see someone with the physiology to be good. He looks like he'd be good, but goes to the gym but has a BMI of like 18.
How do I get him to run with me and why does he not do it anyway? What's the tribe that's really black?
Wasted talent chasing Western Instagram nonsense
Why did you say 'very black'?
Being black is not a disease man....or was it relevant?
Lower leg ratio. It is very uncommon to see a person with a shorter, heavier lower leg who is also a good distance runner. Maybe you can phrase it better. You know what I mean.
It is well explained in the book The Sports Gene. It isn't really controversial. Also science:
Previous studies have reported that absolute upper and lower legs in the East African endurance runners, who have superior running performance and running economy, are longer than those in endurance runners of other regions. ... They also reported that absolute and relative total lengths (normalized with body height) of the upper and lower legs were positively correlated with running performance. Moreover, Laumets reported that a longer absolute lower leg was related to better running economy in Caucasian endurance runners. Since leg length affects stride length, longer legs can ensure that endurance runners run more efficiently by devoting less energy to leg acceleration.
So longer legs in slow Japanese runners (14:59) is correlated to their slow 5k times? Therefore the length of the Achilles tendons in East Africans must correlated (and a causal relationship) to their 5k times? Got it. Any meaningful studies or just the simpletonian "studies" cited?
He probably has a real life and doesn't worry about finding an activity that lines up with your preconceived notions about his black skin and slender calves.
pReCoNcEiVeD nOtiOnS. Wow you sound so smart and enlightened.
Why so hostile? He's the one that made an assumption about the guy based solely on his skin color and build.
My assumption about you is that you're a total jackass, based on your responses here.
You libs wouldn't know it, but this is the type of thing normal people talk about all the time when you aren't around to scold them.
Nothing in that original post, including the talk of a 'very black guy' is the type of thing normal people talk about.
I realize it isn't PC to say "very black guy" but we all know what he means. Some black people have much darker skin than others. But I'm sure you are colorblind and don't see race except when hating white people.
You libs wouldn't know it, but this is the type of thing normal people talk about all the time when you aren't around to scold them.
Nothing in that original post, including the talk of a 'very black guy' is the type of thing normal people talk about.
Nothing? Nothing at all? That is not true.
We do talk about body-type all the time in sports. The "very black" comment was weirdly put but you don't have to assume the guy's a racist because he noticed a noticeable trait about someone. If I say I have a co-worker who looks like Lopez Lomong, is it wrong to envision a Sudanese guy and not some random Italian dude?
It is not racist to say body-type plays a strong roll in what sports we are good at.
Nothing in that original post, including the talk of a 'very black guy' is the type of thing normal people talk about.
I realize it isn't PC to say "very black guy" but we all know what he means. Some black people have much darker skin than others. But I'm sure you are colorblind and don't see race except when hating white people.
It's not that it's not PC. It's that it's not normal to fixate on someone's level of blackness and then assume that that level of blackness correlates to a specific sporting activity.
Lower leg ratio. It is very uncommon to see a person with a shorter, heavier lower leg who is also a good distance runner. Maybe you can phrase it better. You know what I mean.
It is well explained in the book The Sports Gene. It isn't really controversial. Also science:
So longer legs in slow Japanese runners (14:59) is correlated to their slow 5k times? Therefore the length of the Achilles tendons in East Africans must correlated (and a causal relationship) to their 5k times? Got it. Any meaningful studies or just the simpletonian "studies" cited?
Here is a meaningful study. If you think it is "simpletonian", fine. You do you.
"MA_AT was significantly longer and the FLR lower in Kenyans than in Japanese. Independently of the group, the running performance was positively related to the MA_AT (r = 0.55, P < 0.001) and negatively to the FLR (r = -0.45, P = 0.002). These results suggest that longer MA_AT and lower FLR could be advantageous in elite Kenyan runners, by contributing to effective endurance running performance in a protective and economical way."
The Achilles tendon moment arm (MA_AT) and foot lever ratio (FLR) can play important roles for force production and movement economy during locomotion. This notion has become more relevant, and suggestion has been given that...
