longjack wrote:
9.5 still looks really weird. but given that bolt had an injury setback, humans can run 9.4 without too much a stretch.
and minus all the rounds and no accident you have the 18.8 200m
same dude could have run 42.5 400m
in the 800m if you ever got 5 141 guys lining up in monaco there is our 139
and if you had half a dozen 202 marathoners, on the right race and breeze, and pacing you got sub 2
this is where humans can go now.
T&F went from guys doing what they could do for bookies in saloons in 18th & 19th Centuries, low mileage and workouts.
1950's was the first time guys combined 100 miles per week, fartlek and track workouts.
1960's, T&F became global as the former colonized had self-determination.
Cross-training and science in 1980's.
Very light weight shoes and fast tracks in the 00's.
I just walked you through how the one mile went from 4:18 to 3:43 over the past 150 years or so and improvent on other listed events.
Sub-1:40 800m may occur with faster shoes and tracks that return energy to runners. Only other way: a bunch of sub-45 second 400m runners move up to 800m. There is no way with current shoes and current tracks will a (46 to 48.5) second 400m runner break 1:40.