Free Advice wrote:
That would really be something! Just imagine some remote Pacific Island tribe where they have been undiscovered by modern society forever, yet they have a state of the art 400 meter track, and running the 10K is part of their culture.
Their ability to run fast 10Ks would be attributed to breast milk yogurt fermented by the young native women (who happen to walk around barefoot and topless all of the time). That would be an awesome place to live.
dude, except for the island on LOST! people can die and still be alive on that island! i bet john locke could run 23 minutes!
Yeah, just so long as none of these islanders are called Kenenisa Bekele.
You are so right that would be soooooooo funny! It would really be hilarious if we found a planet that was inhabited by 6 ft tall beautiful buxom blondes!!!!!! Stop it! just the thought of this stuff has me pissing myself laughing1
I wonder how fast a 3 foot hobbit could run a 10K in.
some coked up brit wrote:
In the same way that you having the username "intergalactic" does not necessarily say much about you, my username does not necessarily say much about me. So no, I'm not coked up or dumb. But thanks for the concern.
Are you even a brit?
Mr. Obvious wrote:
some coked up brit wrote:In the same way that you having the username "intergalactic" does not necessarily say much about you, my username does not necessarily say much about me. So no, I'm not coked up or dumb. But thanks for the concern.
Are you even a brit?
As it happens, yes!
23minutes works out to 55.2 seconds per lap - not that ridiculous. the world record pace is around 63 seconds per lap. el guerrouj was running 55s for his mile world record. i guess it is conceivable that someone could/will run that pace for a 10km sometime in the future...
Keep dreaming you idiot!!!
charlie brown wrote:
23minutes works out to 55.2 seconds per lap - not that ridiculous. the world record pace is around 63 seconds per lap. el guerrouj was running 55s for his mile world record. i guess it is conceivable that someone could/will run that pace for a 10km sometime in the future...
I really don't envision modern humans ever being able to run that fast for a 10K. Well, maybe if we build a track out of those moving walkways they have at airports. Yeah, I could see Bekele running 23 minutes if he was running on one of those...maybe.
They used to have Hobbits there. Maybe they could have done it?
true kenyan runner wrote:
No plague is too strong, no political uprising too violent, and no Pacific Islander pagan god too mighty to prevent us from finishing second to Bekele every year.
You mean third, Sihine baby.
10k is an innate human distance. Separated for all of history from a standard measure of time and distance these speedy islanders nonetheless ran races of exactly 10k and recorded their success in minutes and seconds. They are going to be really excited when they hear about the Olympics.
Polynesia is an interesting place. In the islands breed an incredibly strong people. Unfortunately because of the modern western diet which has filtered in to just about every part of the world, they are not the people they once were. Meaning the consumption of processed foods such as refined sugar, white flour and canned food. Just like the native Americans, they used to be and incredibly athletic people, great stamina and strength, now what? In every way, they have been reduced to a shadow of what they once were.
Man, I used to think i wasted a lot of time on Letsrun, but you people have waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on your hands if you are wasting time discussing this inane question.
psychobilly cadillac wrote:
dude, except for the island on LOST! people can die and still be alive on that island! i bet john locke could run 23 minutes!
No, but you can bet that some letsrunner will dig up Pre's coffin and book it on Oceanic with the hopes he comes back to life.
I guess those stupid magnet insoles and bracelets really do work, eh?
day dreaming wrote:
I would just like to see the look on those East African's faces. Ha ha! Now what are you going to do for a living Kiplegidget? Back to harvesting goat turds for you.
I'd like to see Paula set the world record at 2:10 at the 2012 Olympics and on the podium have a shirt that saves "Duces bitches"
and the very next day she drops the WR to around 2:2:30
true kenyan runner wrote:
You need to understand that it does not matter whether the world record is 27 minutes or 23 minutes. We will find a way to compete with the best in the world. We will believe in ourselves and refuse to place arbitrary limits on our potential. This is how we have dominated the sport for the last 50 years and we will not stop. No plague is too strong, no political uprising too violent, and no Pacific Islander pagan god too mighty to prevent us from finishing second to Bekele every year.
Post of the year, especially the ending.
awesome post! i agree!
true kenyan runner wrote:
You need to understand that it does not matter whether the world record is 27 minutes or 23 minutes. We will find a way to compete with the best in the world. We will believe in ourselves and refuse to place arbitrary limits on our potential. This is how we have dominated the sport for the last 50 years and we will not stop. No plague is too strong, no political uprising too violent, and no Pacific Islander pagan god too mighty to prevent us from finishing second to Bekele every year.
Post of the year, especially the ending.[/quote]
day dreaming wrote:
I would just like to see the look on those East African's faces. Ha ha! Now what are you going to do for a living Kiplegidget? Back to harvesting goat turds for you.
You ever been to a Pacific Island? Laziness is a WAY OF LIFE in every "known" PACIFIC ISLAND. The education system is non existent because everyone is to lazy to give a shit about education- much less running.
Mixed Martial Arts is popular however. Pacific Islanders do like to FIGHT. They love to beat on "HOWIES." I saw a Chammorin Guy knock the f*** out of a white boy in a bar in Guam. He did it "just for FUN." The white boy was like a letsrun poster; Thought his shit didn't stink... Then he got KNOCKED THE f*** OUT!
Wish I could have recorded it. Funny SHIT!