" Different training/nutrition/technology"
Not sure how much improvement in training for the marathon there has been since the 1970s (or even 1960s).
Every time any details of a current day star's training surfaces it looks pretty similar to what the top runners were doing 30-40 years ago!
except for the whole racing less....this whole racing less is so dumb. this sport/profession is all about "racing" but no these guys today are all about the "image"
the rather look and talk and be known as a runner, f*cking sceners its annoying.
back then guys were running damn near as fast as ruppy poop and had full time jobs. the ran cause they LOVED to race. they would race all sorts of distances, and then some would even go super short and try and mile or 2 mile indoors during the winter. now days people are so insecure and snowflake that they REFUSE to line up if they are not 99% fit, and even when they are they automatically make some excuse
"im training through"
"i have a slight cold"
"my a$$hole hurts from so much anal sex last week with my fan boys"
they have a built in crutch just in case they run 2:15 like usual. the kenyans regardless of EPO go hard, do hard training runs and run in huge groups. here in the US its like middle school clicks, groups of 3-5, each secretive and jealous, trash talking each other, dodging each other, and doing 1 or 2 races a YEAR. how the hell are you ever going to do 2:05 pace if you NEVER run that fast in training, or RACING? just like coward ruppy poop....his latest runs of 10k on up to half marathon have all been at 2:09-10 pace....and everyone congratulates him. really you think its cool to "pace" or "tempo" a 66 half? those guys in the 70s would have run 58 if they had rupps credentials, did peach tree, some other races and then run faster than his times at chi and boston.
That 70's guy wrote:
The 70s-80s didn't have hyper fast races like London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort, Amsterdam etc avaliable to them. Chicago was 2nd tier.
So if Americans wanted to run fast they had few opportunites.
In a time with hundreds of 2:06 marathoners, they only run as well as Americans did at Boston and NYC back in the day.
Look up when those races started.
I don't get your point times were generally slower then
ukathleticscoach wrote:
That 70's guy wrote:
The 70s-80s didn't have hyper fast races like London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort, Amsterdam etc avaliable to them. Chicago was 2nd tier.
So if Americans wanted to run fast they had few opportunites.
In a time with hundreds of 2:06 marathoners, they only run as well as Americans did at Boston and NYC back in the day.
Look up when those races started.
I don't get your point times were generally slower then
Actually not.
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