Mick jogger wrote:
For being only 31 his face looks incredibly old. If you zoom in he looks like a 60 year old man. Like on old wise marathon Zen Mater.
Excessively high mileage year after year accelerates the aging process 😔
Mick jogger wrote:
For being only 31 his face looks incredibly old. If you zoom in he looks like a 60 year old man. Like on old wise marathon Zen Mater.
Excessively high mileage year after year accelerates the aging process 😔
Sorry to bring this up again, and perhaps someone already posted this, but
If you look at Kiprop's right thigh you see it as well.
For the new kids on here
A has-been who never was wrote:
I will try and give a serious answer to this question. I am a 62-year old, ex-2:16 marathoner. In my good running years, I had big quads and I had the same thing. To show it, I need only pull my heel to my butt with my hand. (Stretching the quad). Had the same horizontal, three-dimensional lines (bumps).. Someone gave me a reasonable explaination for it. He said that the quad was so big that there were tears or weakness in the sheath surrounding the quad. It was basically bulging out in these weak or torn areas. Now that I am older and weaker with smaller quads, I don't really have it anymore. Pulling my heal to my butt, I can barely still feel it. I hope this helps.
Correct answer. I have them as well, as only a 4:59 miler. You can't see them, but stretch your quad with your heel to your butt and run your fingernail down and up the quad. You'll feel the bumps in the muscle. Kipchoge is so ripped and lean, you can see them, but for most of us, we can only feel them.
They’re batteries, obviously! Clearly runs on energizers.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Energizer_Bunny.png/230px-Energizer_Bunny.png
I have those now! All I needed was a sharpie! Can't wait to try a marathon!
LoneStarXC wrote:
They’re batteries, obviously! Clearly runs on energizers.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Energizer_Bunny.png/230px-Energizer_Bunny.png
Motor doping
Definitely not unique to Kenyans...
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disgraceful_admin wrote:
DougC wrote:
If bodybuilders have these striations, could they be from drug use?
Bodybuilders take drugs to grow muscle and lose bodyfat. That's a very low priority for marathon runners who need minimal muscle and already have very low bodyfat. I don't think any typical bodybuilding drugs would be of use to a serious runner, but I may be totally wrong.
Some of the LetsRun resident bodybuilders, who boast gains of up to 160lbs+ (!!!!) can comment on this.
Yep, you're totally wrong. Testosterone is beneficial for all athletes.
Anyone who is lean enough and has muscles developed enough to push into the skin will have visible striations. It is more obvious in bodybuilders like one who died called Andreas Munzer, google pictures of Andreas Munzer if you want to see ridiculous levels of striations.
It’s a carbon fiber plate. Eliud is actually a cyborg.
fkonfkoff wrote:
It’s a carbon fiber plate. Eliud is actually a cyborg.
I want to put 3 carbon fiber plates in my feet. I will start snapping out sub 2:10s barefoot and everyone will worship me.
Happened to see this post on Facebook and it reminded me of this thread.
EPO injections are normally given in the thigh.
Possibly, a couple of weeks ago there was a photo of a club runner here in the Uk at a local race with the same thigh look
A thread like this does bring up the interesting possibility that signs of ped abuse could be visible on an athlete, and detected - mayby not by us, but by advanced AI.
I've raised this here in the past, but for some reason the mods usually delete the posts. For example, AI should be at the point now that it could detect miniscule injection marks on an athlete from a high-res photo. Or perhaps anti-doping testers could use a camera directly on athletes, with AI able to detect the minutest signs of an inection? Surely any injection into skin must leave some visible traces (at least for an AI equipped microscopic camera) for a few days at least?
Going back to the original photo, I notice that most of the runners, including both Kipchoge and Rupp, have little bumps on their thighs. Is this another effect of 'striation' and low body fat, or microscars from injections?