On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:27:33 -0500 , you wrote:
>> Brian T McEwen says
>>
>> I said: I don't know the Limits of human performance in distance running,
>> but
>> they are NOT at the level where today's runners would lap Viren, Yifter,
>> Rono, Schildhauer and Cova at their very best.
>>
> Well, Henry ran 27:22 in 1978, 22 years ago. 22 years before
>that, 1956, the WR was 28:30. Hmmm, Curiously, just about a 1 lap
>difference. Now, guess what? 20 years before that, 1936, the WR was 30:06,
>or approximately a lap and a half behind Kuts. Wanna go back 20 more years
>to 1916? I bet even you can guess what's gonna happen here. Yep!! One more
>time. Not quite a lap this time, but...30:58, 52 seconds slower. I don't
>know about 1896, but, how do you explain Nurmi being a lap better than
>Bouin, Kuts being a lap better than Nurmi, Rono being a lap better than
>Kuts, but Gebrselassie NOT being able to be a lap better than Rono?
>/Drew
>
Swami divines two possible answers:
1) law of diminishing returns
2) Bouin, Nurmi, Kuts and Rono were obviously doping, while Geb is not
RT
