Letsrun would have been talking about it for DAYS. I can't believe you guys aren't talking about Lagat's amazing performance. The man just broke an AR. I can't believe the double standard here.
Letsrun would have been talking about it for DAYS. I can't believe you guys aren't talking about Lagat's amazing performance. The man just broke an AR. I can't believe the double standard here.
A 3:26 1500m runner runs a comparatively pathetic 8:10 and you're wondering the double standard?
Somehow an athlete at the peak of his athletic performance is just more exciting.
People would be saying he is on drugs.
If Solinsky moved to Kenya, became a Kenyan and he ran an amazing performance there, what do you think the Kenyans would say?
The reaction would be much greater for Solinsky, but this is a rarely run distance indoors and it was achieved but a a native born Kenyan. Is it a double standard, of course. While Bernard is a full US citizen now, he will never have the full support of the US distance running fan base. Just a fact, doesn't mean we are all racist or xenophobes
Lagat in my mine is a trailor and drug cheat, not to mention afraid of competing in own countries Olympic trials, when Africans want a guaranteed path to the Olympics all one needs to do is become American. I dispise people like him, especially after wore African Colors/flag after becoming American. Lagat is lower than Whale Sh*t!
Rukiddingme!! wrote:
Lagat in my mine is a trailor and drug cheat
He's a trailor in your mine you say. I think you just might be on to something.
No short course protection factor on an indoor track it seems
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If, on an outdoor track, you are able to hug the turns 20cm (8") from the curb you are running 0.63m short of 400m on each lap, or 2.52m short for one mile and 5.04m short at two miles.
Compare that to an indoor track. If you hug the inside lane 20cm out on the turns on an indoor track, you get the same 0.63m short for EACH LAP, but you are running twice as many laps. That gives you 5.04m short of a mile when running on an indoor track and a two mile would be 10.08 meeters short.
In summation, running at exactly the same place on the lane, you are running less distance indoors than outdoors.
Additionally, running in still air and with banked turns, you can see why many people never run faster outdoors than their indoor times.