oxfmsxc wrote:
Bugs me when someone says something like this. To run fast, you have to have developed systems such as your cardiovascular system. Just because you’re skinny with low body fat does not mean your cardiovascular system is developed. That is just one of many systems that have to be developed that aren’t developed on most people for running.
I think this is the right answer!
If a person spends their entire 30s sitting at a desk at work, sitting in a car on her way home from work, sitting on a couch at home, and then sleeping in a bed at night, it should not be shocking when she is not developed as a runner.
Even if she piles a few months of consistent training, onto decades of sitting at desks, what you get, is probably a shuffle, and not much of a gallop.
And after one year’s worth of consistent training, i am still wondering whether all those years of desks, cars, elevators, and couches still win out. My guess is, a faster shuffle is a good guess, for how things turn out.
Thin is about controlling your weight. Fast is about controlling your training.