Blind paralympic athletes run faster than Centro

ritzback wrote:

OMG

Centro should return his medal. What a disgrace.

https://twitter.com/IPCAthletics/status/775336987167453188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Impressive. Easier to run a PR when you are not constantly looking as splits.

Ok, so let's see a race between the two...who ya betting on?

luv2run wrote:

ritzback wrote:

OMG

Centro should return his medal. What a disgrace.

https://twitter.com/IPCAthletics/status/775336987167453188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Impressive. Easier to run a PR when you are not constantly looking as splits.

Ok, so let's see a race between the two...who ya betting on?

In 3-4 years, Mike Brannigan. He is 8 years younger than Centro; almost 27 year old.

Abdellatif Baka is 22. Five years younger than Centro.

Centro will past his prime when Baka and Brannigan reach their primes.

Brannigan ... wrote:

luv2run wrote:

Impressive. Easier to run a PR when you are not constantly looking as splits.

Ok, so let's see a race between the two...who ya betting on?

In 3-4 years, Mike Brannigan. He is 8 years younger than Centro; almost 27 year old.

Abdellatif Baka is 22. Five years younger than Centro.

Centro will past his prime when Baka and Brannigan reach their primes.

And in 30 years, my son who is now in Pre-K will be able to beat Bernard Lagat.

How does being legally blind (a condition where you can still drive a car with corrective lenses) make you slower? I just don't see the huge advantage that 20/20 vision gives you on the track.

Johnny T. wrote:

Brannigan ... wrote:

In 3-4 years, Mike Brannigan. He is 8 years younger than Centro; almost 27 year old.

Abdellatif Baka is 22. Five years younger than Centro.

Centro will past his prime when Baka and Brannigan reach their primes.

And in 30 years, my son who is now in Pre-K will be able to beat Bernard Lagat.

What is your non-existent Pre-K kid's PR?

Are you of "those" fathers who force their Pre-K kids into the Salazar program? Can't even until you kid reaches Rupp's age of 15-16 entering the program. Sucks to have a father like you.

My son's JV football team scored 27 points in their last football game. This is more than the Broncos scored in the last Super Bowl. The Broncos should return their trophy.

You don't anything about track do you? Ever heard of World Records? They are the, believe it or not, FASTEST times run at a distance. Run faster. Be faster. Got it?

Brannigan ... wrote:

Johnny T. wrote:

And in 30 years, my son who is now in Pre-K will be able to beat Bernard Lagat.

What is your non-existent Pre-K kid's PR?

Are you of "those" fathers who force their Pre-K kids into the Salazar program? Can't even until you kid reaches Rupp's age of 15-16 entering the program. Sucks to have a father like you.

He doesn't run at all outside of just playing around. But in 30 years, I bet he will be faster than a 71 year old Lagat.

And that is about as relevant to this conversation as your claim that these younger guys that are in the Paralympics will one day be able to beat Centro in a race due to him becoming slower with age.

Mike Brannigan WILL beat Centro one day at 1500m. He is faster than Centro was at age 19. Centro will slow down when Brannigan is reaching his peak.

Brannigan ... wrote:

Mike Brannigan WILL beat Centro one day at 1500m. He is faster than Centro was at age 19. Centro will slow down when Brannigan is reaching his peak.

Running doesn't work that way, son.

why harder wrote:

How does being legally blind (a condition where you can still drive a car with corrective lenses) make you slower? I just don't see the huge advantage that 20/20 vision gives you on the track.

There are different degrees of being "legally blind". Hence the T11, T12 and T13 classes.

I have been a guide for many years and I have run with T11 guys who under the right conditions can run on their own on a track and with others who would be totally lost.

It's not that being blind makes you slower. It's how much harder it is for the athlete to train and compete.

tard strength wrote:

Brannigan ... wrote:

Mike Brannigan WILL beat Centro one day at 1500m. He is faster than Centro was at age 19. Centro will slow down when Brannigan is reaching his peak.

Running doesn't work that way, son.

Too stupid to realize runners get slower with age. Then there is that little fact that annoys you: Brannigan is FASTER at age 19 than Centro was at age 19.

That'd been funny if he was in the Olympic final and they just let the blind guy go and he won.

comparing different comps wrote:

My son's JV football team scored 27 points in their last football game. This is more than the Broncos scored in the last Super Bowl. The Broncos should return their trophy.

^ in case anyone needed some perspective on how stupid the OP's post is this is a good comparison.

Reply to yourself much?

A real comparison would be: My son just ran a 3:27.00 for 1500m. That is faster than any of Olympic 1500m finalists have ever run.

why harder wrote:

How does being legally blind (a condition where you can still drive a car with corrective lenses) make you slower? I just don't see the huge advantage that 20/20 vision gives you on the track.

LOL, funny!

Brannigan ... wrote:

tard strength wrote:

Running doesn't work that way, son.

Too stupid to realize runners get slower with age. Then there is that little fact that annoys you: Brannigan is FASTER at age 19 than Centro was at age 19.

Well son, it's like this. Some people maintain at a level that lesser athletes NEVER reach. and then retire. How fast anyone is at 19 is irrelevant unless they are THE BEST in the world at that age.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Olympic final field had faster 19yo times than Centro.

Graham Williamson was faster than Cram, Coe and Ovett as a teenager but that made no difference, even when they got old.

Like I said, running doesn't work the way you think it does.

You don't know track wrote:

You don't anything about track do you? Ever heard of World Records? They are the, believe it or not, FASTEST times run at a distance. Run faster. Be faster. Got it?

You're pretty dumb lol

tard strength wrote:

running doesn't work the way you think it does.

You have no clue about how running works, old man.