I am a 17 year old female high school distance runner. Running has never come easy to me. My family isn't really built for running and they have never been super intense runners. I started cross country freshman year in high school and found it super tough for me at first. Over time, I have improved a lot. I am a very hard worker and always challenge. Is it possible that I could still be very successful in running even if I don't have all the genetic talent in the world?
Just like the last time you asked this question, the answer is NO!
Don't listen to the haters who have never had the guts to stick to anything that didn't come easily to them.
Remember, even Improvability is related to genetics (Epstein, The Sports Gene). So, for all you know, you ARE genetically suited for running.
Start putting in lots of aerobic miles and see what happens!
High School Runner wrote:
I am a 17 year old female high school distance runner. Running has never come easy to me. My family isn't really built for running and they have never been super intense runners. I started cross country freshman year in high school and found it super tough for me at first. Over time, I have improved a lot. I am a very hard worker and always challenge. Is it possible that I could still be very successful in running even if I don't have all the genetic talent in the world?
There's also such a thing as mental talent. It sounds like you have some of that, so you are capable of discovering just how good you can be. So train hard now, race hard in the spring, and find someplace to run in college.
thejeff wrote:
Don't listen to the haters who have never had the guts to stick to anything that didn't come easily to them.
Remember, even Improvability is related to genetics (Epstein, The Sports Gene). So, for all you know, you ARE genetically suited for running.
Start putting in lots of aerobic miles and see what happens!
Au contraire most of us did just that while realizing that the big event wasn't happening.
Why don't you really bear down and try to become an Atheist?
If you have guts and stick to it, it can happen.
trying again wrote:
thejeff wrote:Don't listen to the haters who have never had the guts to stick to anything that didn't come easily to them.
Remember, even Improvability is related to genetics (Epstein, The Sports Gene). So, for all you know, you ARE genetically suited for running.
Start putting in lots of aerobic miles and see what happens!
Au contraire most of us did just that while realizing that the big event wasn't happening.
Why don't you really bear down and try to become an Atheist?
If you have guts and stick to it, it can happen.
Been there, done that.
I aim a lot higher these days.
It all depends on what you mean by "very successful". In HS, yes, and to a limited extent in college you can overcome talent through work ethic and dedicated training.
I was watching some videos on nuclear physicists. John von Neumann's name came up on several occasions, and many of the other well known and respected physicists were in awe of John von Neumann's cognitive horsepower. He had the ability to read 20 pages of technical physics and could recall in detail everything in those 20 pages, along with precise recollection of long strings of numbers from within those 20 pages. On a few occasions in advanced math lectures, von Neumann worked out solutions to problems >>during the lecture
... apparently the rest of my post was truncated.
Long story short, no amount of studious hard work would have produced the same results which came naturally to von Neumann.
That aside, there is nothing wrong with setting goals and working hard to achieve them.
High School Runner wrote:
I am a 17 year old female high school distance runner. Running has never come easy to me. My family isn't really built for running and they have never been super intense runners. I started cross country freshman year in high school and found it super tough for me at first. Over time, I have improved a lot. I am a very hard worker and always challenge. Is it possible that I could still be very successful in running even if I don't have all the genetic talent in the world?
You don't know your genetic potential. How you body responds to hard and difficult training over time is more important than the speed you initially run untrained.
Part of genetics is how your body responds to this training and how resilient you are and on the other side how susceptible to injury you are.
There is only one way to find out.
thejeff wrote:
trying again wrote:Au contraire most of us did just that while realizing that the big event wasn't happening.
Why don't you really bear down and try to become an Atheist?
If you have guts and stick to it, it can happen.
Been there, done that.
I aim a lot higher these days.
Quitter on both counts. Aren't like 200 plus pounds?