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It is possible to run on PURE HATE for more than 800m.

All NOPers are dopers.

Bolt is clean.

Everyone on LR makes 250k/year, has a 15:30 5k PR, and has a hot wife.

I won Rock N Roll Phoenix and Ironman Louisville.

(Actually I just won my age group).

More importantly- I recently beat Bernard Lagat in an important race.

(He was doing a easy run and recording it on Strava. And I ran a .81 mile strava segment as fast as I could).

The DCXC was a 5K.

The average male could run 4:30 for a mile if they trained right.

Triathletes have no athletic talent.

Most half decent marathoners would own the Ultra scene if they wanted to.

Pirate/Cat/Gun Girl was hot.

'Devastated' is apparently the most common word in the English language.

Our website is NOT infested with invasive adware, malware, page-covering popups that make this site completely unusable without adblocker. We will keep believing that while we plead with you to not use adblocker because it hurts our trustfund lined pockets.

20 years later wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

[Random African who just ran world class time] is only 17 years old!!!

20 years later. [The same Random African who just ran world class time] is 37 years old!!!

Both cannot be true, or can they?

This ended up being a great troll, but of course we have yet to identify anyone who was:

(1) world class as a teenager

(2) still world class after the age of 35

(And before anyone sets off on a wild goose chase, let's define world class. It's not German Fernandez's US junior record of 13:25. That's very fast but not so crazy as to set off warning bells. The world junior record on the other hand is 12:47! Let's call world class for this discussion sub-13 or the equivalent in other events).

The best one is the thought that you just need hard work to be a great runner. Talent does not exist.

You can also just choose your distance and force your body to adapt to it.

There are actually guys on here who believe Bolt could be any kind of runner.

fallujah wrote:

20 years later wrote:

20 years later. [The same Random African who just ran world class time] is 37 years old!!!

Both cannot be true, or can they?

This ended up being a great troll, but of course we have yet to identify anyone who was:

(1) world class as a teenager

(2) still world class after the age of 35

Well, you don't have to have both to argue that a random African can run a world class time at 17. If Kipchoge was substantially older than his stated age of 18 (+3 to 5 years for nonbelievers of 18?) when he the World Championships in 2003, he'd be older than 35 now and still in the vicinity of top in the world.

zzzz wrote:

fallujah wrote:

This ended up being a great troll, but of course we have yet to identify anyone who was:

(1) world class as a teenager

(2) still world class after the age of 35

Well, you don't have to have both to argue that a random African can run a world class time at 17. If Kipchoge was substantially older than his stated age of 18 (+3 to 5 years for nonbelievers of 18?) when he the World Championships in 2003, he'd be older than 35 now and still in the vicinity of top in the world.

Kipchoge could have been 21 when he won WJ and is now 35 running elite marathon times. 35 is a fine age for marathoning. 21 is still cheating.

Er... wrote:

Runner's X is "easily in 3:53 shape" because his 3:57 mile was run

a. with poor splits

b. in the heat

c. in the cold

d. solo

e. in a crowd

f. pick your favourite excuse.

RELAXED

This this wrote:

zzzz wrote:

Well, you don't have to have both to argue that a random African can run a world class time at 17. If Kipchoge was substantially older than his stated age of 18 (+3 to 5 years for nonbelievers of 18?) when he the World Championships in 2003, he'd be older than 35 now and still in the vicinity of top in the world.

Kipchoge could have been 21 when he won WJ and is now 35 running elite marathon times. 35 is a fine age for marathoning. 21 is still cheating.

Nah, 35 is old. Very few people are just hitting their stride at the marathon after a long track career..

Kipchoge's age is legit.

It IS possible to walk/trot marathons in two different physical locations at the same time

OK good, we have Kipchoge as our test case.

Won world championship at age 19 (2003)

Won Olympic marathon at age 32 (2016)

Only problem is that age 32 isn't old in athletics. Mo Farah is older than Kipchoge for example, and he's humming along. Give it another few years before we get impressed at Kipchoge's old age the way we do with Lagat.

And the elephant in the room is that Kipchoge looks like he's 36, which would make him 23-ish at worlds in 2003. Of course that makes his Olympic marathon very impressive, but would take away the young-age impressiveness on the other end.

Will be fun to see how long Kipchoge lasts at this level, if he can be the one to be impressive at a young age and then impressive again at an old age. Obviously very rare.

fallujah wrote:

OK good, we have Kipchoge as our test case.

Won world championship at age 19 (2003)

Won Olympic marathon at age 32 (2016)

Only problem is that age 32 isn't old in athletics. Mo Farah is older than Kipchoge for example, and he's humming along. Give it another few years before we get impressed at Kipchoge's old age the way we do with Lagat.

And the elephant in the room is that Kipchoge looks like he's 36, which would make him 23-ish at worlds in 2003. Of course that makes his Olympic marathon very impressive, but would take away the young-age impressiveness on the other end.

Will be fun to see how long Kipchoge lasts at this level, if he can be the one to be impressive at a young age and then impressive again at an old age. Obviously very rare.

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EPO helps the production of more red bloods cells but that do does mean they are carrying more oxygen to the muscles.

Donald Trump weighs 195.

"EPO doesn't help Kenyans/Ethiopians run faster" is the best one, because a lot of very gullible people actually believe it.

Rafa Nadal is totally clean. He is carrying on the fine tradition of clean Spanish athletes, like Martin Fiz, Fermin Cacho, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, and pretty much every other high-profile athlete from Spain.

Gaylen Rapper. wrote:

EPO helps the production of more red bloods cells but that do does mean they are carrying more oxygen to the muscles.

Could you repeat this? Not sure if you have the alternative version or not.