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Re: Kipchoge
Put another way, of the 51million+ times the 5km parkrun has been run since its inception, only 5 (five) have been run faster than Kipchoge's average pace over 42km.
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Yeah OK (did it in my head).
Snorvey's link really demonstrates the magnitude of the achievement.
Snorvey's link really demonstrates the magnitude of the achievement.
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Snorvey wrote:However Nike maintain:
we do not create any running shoes that return more energy than the runner expends.”
We'll d'uh. I'm not a scientist, but isn't there a Law of Thermodynamics that comes into play here?
Yes, I nearly choked on my vino collapso when I heard that one on the TV news last night. A classic example of fending off the stupid journalists with anything that sounds 'scientific' enough to make them shut up.
It's still a bit dodgy, though. I'm sure that science has produced all kinds of sports inventions that improve/enhance performance (tennis rackets, cricket bats, pole vaulting thingummies, not to mention Oscar Pistorius's spring loaders), and we'd be in a poorer position if we didn't allow them. But if you can't win a medal unless you're in the special Nike club that can get privileged access to the race-winning carbon-thingummy soles, then that's a bit poor. To put it mildly.
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Snorvey wrote:Motor sports is probably the best example of only winning when you have kit that isn't available to anyone else.
How would Lewis get on in a Renault one wonders.
True enough, he'd struggle. But I thought the Formula 1 people spent all their time working out what innovations they ought to ban for the same of fair competition (and watchable races)? Turbos, ground effect, traction control, active suspension...)
Maybe I should just stick to watching the darts.
Aaah, but have you seen the price of darts lately? Not your normal competition sets @ forty quid a chuck, but the hyper-blended beryllium/uranium jobbies with the laser guidance systems and the auto-correction and the nano-sub-atomic points and the devastating payloads?
What You haven't heard of those yet? You haven't been brown-nosing the right people.
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Re: Kipchoge
The shoes might give an edge of a minute or two, but predominantly its Kipchoge's natural talent at efficient running that makes the difference.
He has a great style, is of optimum age, is lightweight and has a high power-to-weight ratio.
I am a keen runner (age 57) - mostly cross-country and parkrun, and in my 20's competed on the track at 800m.
He has a great style, is of optimum age, is lightweight and has a high power-to-weight ratio.
I am a keen runner (age 57) - mostly cross-country and parkrun, and in my 20's competed on the track at 800m.
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