oodles wrote:
How does having a silver medalist sister help? How does her sister's successes or failures affect her genes?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Gene Summons wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Elijah Lagat must have eaten his siblings then and absorbed their genes.
" Lagat began running simply to lose weight and not necessarily to compete at the highest level of the sport. As a young man, a physician told him that he "had a lot of fat around his heart" and needed to lose weight. The Kenyan obliged and his weight decreased from 158 pounds in 1992 to 125 by the time he won Boston.[3] He started jogging in 1993 and began competing in 1994. He was already 27 when he first began competing; his late start in the sport is unusual and a testament to his innate talent. Before running, Lagat worked as an educational administrator before switching to full-time athlete.[4]"
Gene Summons wrote:
The Kenyan obliged and his weight decreased from 158 pounds in 1992 to 125 by the time he won Boston.
RancidCupNoodle wrote:
Gene Summons wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Elijah Lagat must have eaten his siblings then and absorbed their genes.
" Lagat began running simply to lose weight and not necessarily to compete at the highest level of the sport. As a young man, a physician told him that he "had a lot of fat around his heart" and needed to lose weight. The Kenyan obliged and his weight decreased from 158 pounds in 1992 to 125 by the time he won Boston.[3] He started jogging in 1993 and began competing in 1994. He was already 27 when he first began competing; his late start in the sport is unusual and a testament to his innate talent. Before running, Lagat worked as an educational administrator before switching to full-time athlete.[4]"
Ever heard of Dennis Kimetto? Sensing a pattern. Kenyans "running" genes get activated when their siblings and friends tell them they can get money/status/education much like they how they would get together to go on cattle raids back in the good ol' days and probably to steal young brides.
Seriously though, not that interesting. I like the stories about fatties like Steve Way jumping off his potato chip infested couch and running 2:15. Which gene is that?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Gene Summons wrote:
The Kenyan obliged and his weight decreased from 158 pounds in 1992 to 125 by the time he won Boston.
You are only proving my point. A fat Kenyan man weighs less than a fat American woman.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Gene Summons wrote:
oodles wrote:
How does having a silver medalist sister help? How does her sister's successes or failures affect her genes?
It lets her know that she has a pretty good chance of having similar genes.
Which is exactly what she found out.
oodles wrote:
Gene Summons wrote:
oodles wrote:
How does having a silver medalist sister help? How does her sister's successes or failures affect her genes?
It lets her know that she has a pretty good chance of having similar genes.
Which is exactly what she found out.
You should try to be more subtle if you're going to troll. You blew your cover with this one.
been to kenya wrote:
Can we once and for all get rid of the idea that Kenyans are good because they run everywhere as kids?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Just Another LRC Idiot wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
Having a silver medalist sister means she probably grew up eating next to nothing just like her.
The importance of skinniness to distance running can't be understated.
Yeah, right. Kenyans eat next to nothing, compared to Americans who eat more than anyone else in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake#cite_note-4
Can you explain why Democratic Republic of Congo does not produce better distance runners than Kenya? People there eat even less.
