fisky wrote:
If 70 is the new 50 for couch potatoes, we'll see a continued performance improvement in senior athletes.
Performance of older runners will continue to improve dramatically as medical advances allow seniors to continue running after injuries that would have ended their running careers a couple of decades ago.
There have always been a few outliers who have superior genetics for running and aging who have dodged the bullet of career-ending injuries to stay fast into their 70s... Ed Whitlock, Earl Fee, Bob Lida, and Allie, just to name a few. There will be more in the future. For example, Iife expectancy of a Kenyan man is only 64 today. As nutrition and economic status continue to improve, a few of the B-level Kenyans will probably be destroying Masters world records in 20-30 years.
What medical advances are going to help this?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12840638