I know I might be a bit late on this, but I feel I must defend myself. If you think its embarrassing to have Michelle ranked 6th, how about an a guy doing 20 miles per week not 200(k or mi) getting bumped to 8th if you put her into the mix. Yeah, that's right, I'm deeply offended that I'm not more embarrassing than Michelle. In defense of the walk though, I do have to say this, at least the walkers have consistently performed better at the distance events than our running brethren.
Adding to another subject ---- High mileage is a myth. Every athlete is different and responds to different stimuli. For some high mileage may work. For others a quality based program is best. I rarely ever did junk miles in my training. Some elite athletes are built like a Ferrari and others are built like say a Range Rover. Both cars have different needs and will respond to different stresses. Maybe the athlete is somewhere inbetween. I guess its kind of funny that I could use an American made car in my analogy and don't make any suggestions that the Ferrari is on EPO and that there are a lot of Rovers in Africa! Allen James yes I'm still lurking Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:33:29 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Takahashi trivia EMBARASSING!! In a message dated Tue, 2 Oct 2001 9:10:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Mike Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact that 2:19:46 would be number 11 amongst American men this year is > downright EMBARASSING!!>> Hey, Michelle Rohl is No. 6 among American men in the 20W. gh
