Although this might be impossible to do, it would be interesting to see who some of the world's best athletes would be if they graded races according to talent instead of age. Not everyone is born with a VO2 max of 90 and a sky high LT, but I bet there are some runners out there who, if they had any speed or lung capacity, would be world class. I've heard of guys who cannot break 60 in the 400 running 30:00 for 10K. That has to be 100% on the theoretical talent graded scale.
what are you talking about
yes that is a strange idea, so strange i have no idea what you are talking about.
Some of the people on this site are a little slow.
Do you know what an age graded race is? They handicap the performances according to someone's age. Of course, a 70 year old running an 17:00 5K is a world class performance because of the intrinsic limitations imposed upon a person by a 70 year old body.
Now do the same for talent. A 30 year old American growing up in suburbia, wearing shoes all their life, having two parents who weren't very active and don't have an ideal distance runner's muscle fiber composition, eating fast food and other processed goods, playing video games all the time, and one day deciding to take up running 5K's has a bit of a handicap compared to the Ethiopian growing up without shoes at 8,000 foot altitude with a champion distance runner as his mother and a ridiculously high VO2 max.
No matter how hard the first runner trains he will never run as fast as the well trained second runner. So, handicapping things according to factors beyond the runner's control (such as talent) who would be better? If the American had the same VO2 max and basic speed, would the race results show he had worked just as hard?
name at least 1 person that went 30 flat not breaking 60 in the 400, i hear people say this all the time and i find it hard to believe
wow you're slow wrote:
If the American had the same VO2 max and basic speed, would the race results show he had worked just as hard?
not if he was a she, or vice versa.
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