stupidd letsrunners wrote:
You are the only dense one here, as the slow-minded repetition of your non-argument proves.
By "exhausted their potential," I obviously don't mean that they believe they will never cut another 0.01 off of their 5k time. Try for one minute to be logical, if you can do so without hurting yourself. What I mean, as any simpleton (other than yourself, it seems) could surmise, is that they have reached a competitive level in that event from which they are unlikely to advance significantly. In Kenya and Ethiopia, upon leveling off in shorter events, the tendency is then, almost without exception, to go longer and stay there. (I'm guessing you have never lived and trained in Africa, right?)
So, while Ritz and other Americans continually come back down to the track and we see what they could do at 5k after marathon training, we will never see that for a runner like Wanjiru, who could absolutely crush Ritz (if that meant anything to the rest of the world) but would rather do one thing very well. You can talk all day about who has the best 800/5k/10k/marathon/100 mile combined time, but you will continue to sound like you're trying to squeeze imagined combined success out of relative failure in separate events. Like a triathlete who never got near the top in the 10k but brags about being the best swimmer+cyclist+runner all at once.