The Light wrote:
Perhaps my terms "override", "veto", and "limit" have misled you, but this doesn't put me all over the map. I understood the basis of CG is that exercise behavior is regulated, and not limited. So if it helps, I will concede the CG is not a limiter, but a regulator, or a governor. Sorry if you were confused.
What I mean is that we can not ignore, that by conscious will, athletes can overdo it, in spite of early warning signs, by not listening to the body. This happens all the time. Bad performance at the finish is one consequence, but it can be worse, e.g. injury, dehydration, overheating, passing out, and even death.
Light, from this end, it appears you looked a bit at what Noakes describes his CG model as, some stuff you agree with and some you don't, and you simply built your own version of it and this is what you're presenting. It doesn't matter what a runner does in your version. They speed up, slow down, bonk, drink, don't drink, pass out, sprint, run faster than they should, run slower than the should, do everything right, do everything wrong... No matter what happens, you simply chaulk it up to some combination of the CG and the runners conscious or subconscious actions of following it or ignoring it or whatever.
I can't see a single reason to bother continuing on here with you on this thread. From that perspective, we're done.