Hey listen up..., you're responding to the wrong poster, or your axons and dendrites just aren't connecting. Reading is knowledge. Understand what you've read first and then make your feeble attempt to disagree, just to sound like you've got a clue.Where did I say anything about the lead vehicle not having a clock on it? I would bet 9 out of 10 runners know that. That's your point? That's all you've got?You think there is something new that is going to "work" versus what currently works? Please, enlighten me. I guarantee you that I've been there, and YOU haven't. There is no trick, it's hard, hard work and having the talent to do it. The difference between running 2:07 and 2:04 is not 3 minutes, but...it's closer to 3 minutes than the difference between running 2:02:57 and 1:59:59. My best guess is that I've lost you at this point, did I? The effort to run 1:59:59 on a perfect course in perfect conditions is something way, way way off in the future, NOT 15 years or anywhere close to it. Salad bar??, doesn't have a clue either. For the record, I don't come here often and "listen up..." is one of the reasons why.I am not David Monti, believe it or not. There are surely a few posters on this thread that get it, but most don't and I"m at a loss as to how people who are suppose to be runners can't figure it out. An uneducated person working out on a treadmill for 10 minutes as part of their routine, that I get. But people who actually run, I just don't get it. You're not seeing a sub 2 hour marathon on a certified course for a long, long time, and some people reading this will never see it happen. Don't listen to me, read the facts. No one is going to run 1:29 faster for 2 halves in a row when it took 21 years for it to drop 1:24. Dennis was depleted and gave it his all...great race Dennis!!!!!Hey listen up, listen up yourself and you may just learn something.
listen up... wrote:
We are not talking about how things currently 'work'. The discussion is with regard to what hypothetical improvements to the course conditions could be optimized to even chop further time off the record (e.g., huge oval course, etc.).
What I suggest is fairly simple to eliminate the athletes themselves having to do the math in their head.
But if you don't think the lead vehicle in Berlin actually did have a huge digital clock displaying time info in large red numerals to the lead athletes, then you're wrong.