Okay for my Senior Economics Capstone I have to come up with a topic and write a paper defending it. I really couldn't think of anything that I wanted to write on or debate. I wanted to take something traditional like standard of living and consumption and try to tie them into running. Then I got to looking at East Africa and teh rest of the world, and the arguments on Letsrun as to why the Ethiopians, Kenyans, ect all run fast. I am a believer that they just are flat out talented and work their tails off, but I want to still go into some research and see if there are some economic factors that come into play here(poverty rate, standard of living, national GDP, ect). I think that this would be an interesting topic to write and present. I do need some help I would like to hear comments from some people. Especially Vipam, Wejo(since you actually have a degree in Econ) and anyone else that has some intelligent insight. So please only serious replies. Also feel free to e-mail me also