werd wrote:
everyone should wrote:There are 7.5 billion people in the world. You must lack imagination, because the dude with the worst running genetics out of all of them isn't going to break 10 in the mile, even with tons of training, whereas the person with the best genetics, even untrained, will run a 4:30 mile.
There is no such thing as best and worst running genes. Slow runners do not get genetically tested. Fast runners do not get genetically tested.
Saying someone will run a 4:30 mile untrained with the best genetics is a completely made up statement. Where is this person? When did they publish their genetic makeup? Which genes are they? Etc, etc.
Back when I was in HS, early 2000s, there were twins that just skateboarded and didn't do any sports. Anyways, they had to do the mile in PE and they both ran 4:40s or something nuts. Obviously the PE teacher got them into XC. This was in socal, I can't remember their names—the Estrada twins? I was a freshman @ the time, but I remember seeing them go 1-2 @ mt. sac (they were seniors, I was a freshman)
On the flip side, I've been around people who train and train and train and train and train some more, and are so impossibly slow its insane. Don't get me wrong, I'm usually the one saying that people aren't tied down by genetics as much as they think, but there are some seriously untalented people in the world.
I guarantee you there is an untrained, talented non-runner that can run 4:39 today.
I also guarantee you there is an extremely heavily trained, untalented runner that can't break 9 in the mile. But maybe, after a few more years of training, he can break 8:25.
The talented runner wins in this case, for the sole fact that there are some extremely slow, untalented people on this planet.