Not Just Ruining Things At The Elite Level wrote:
Obummer wrote:
25 seconds per mile? Leave this site and never post again bc your opinion is worthless if you really believe that
I don't believe it - I KNOW it. Because unlike the majority of you chumps on this site arguing the toss without any actual knowledge one way or the other I devised a way of testing exactly how much the Carbon Plate was worth by tempoing 10k, on the same course, at the same heart rate on multiple occasions with and without the plate using as close a control shoe as I could get.
I've done the work and I can look at the results I know for myself exactly what they're worth. Not interested in actual "worthless opinion" from some random b"llshitter on here...
So this guy KNOWS it's worth 25 seconds per mile. He is certain of it. Stinson just ran 25 seconds per mile than Kipchoge. He also didn't have the elaborate windbreak nor anyone handing him drinks from a motorcycle. Well, he had a group of guys, so maybe the fantastic windbreak was only worth less than a minute more, and the drinks thing probably several more seconds. So if the multi-million $ INEOS situation gave him about a minute compared to what a competitor in a race had to do, Stinson actually ran a more impressive performance than Kipchoge. The much-hyped World Record holder at 25 seconds per mile slower wouldn't break 2:11 in a conventional race.
Also, you must consider the insole disaster race one of the most impressive performances of all time. He was certainly much less than 25 seconds per mile slower than any of his races since. What are the greatest runs ever? Kimetto's record and Bekele's near miss? Neither of those had the 25 second advantage, so wouldn't they have been well under 2:00 if they'd given the same effort on the same course on the same day with the shoes? How fast would Adola have been with them? Far ahead of Kipchoge, that's for sure, easily under Kimetto's record, wouldn't he? That would have been sub-2 as well, right?
There may be others here that wonder the same, but I can't figure out how you tested the new Kipchoge shoe. Not one pair has ever been sold. There may be pairs in existence in sizes other than his since they may have been made for someone in Beaverton to try. But maybe you just meant you tested the most Next%. Or maybe even just the 4%. So how many seconds per mile would you guess the Kipchoge Special is worth? 30? We can only speculate since none of has ever touched one, or have you and if so how did you get ahold of it? If you have a guy running a 2:12 marathon equivalent (or 2:14 in a race race without perfect conditions) in a 30 second per mile booster shoe, that's not very impressive is it? I mean, it's ahead of Steph Bruce but far from the GOATB