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cliffster7/30/2010 11:42:12 am PDT

re: #130 Obdicut

Some dudes from Kenya would. Other dudes from Kenya wouldn’t. And Emil Zapotec would be right alongside with them.

There’s actually a growing school of thought that indicates that performance in a marathon has way more to do with the ability to sustain a higher percentage of your own VO2max, which comes from training, than having a high VO2max to begin with. That, plus running economy, gives you the incredibly incredible men who finish a marathon in a hair over 2 hours. That gives me hope because I can train my ass off, but the “running economy” blows it for me - I’m 6’1” but my legs are so short you’d see them on a guy who is 5’7”. But it does give hope to people with normal legs, who are not from Kenya.