But using the arguments already made about conditions impacting people in different ways, some people are better front runners and run better without the company. An attempt is being made here to determine which performance is superior using just one criteria. Regards, Martin Dan Kaplan wrote:
> I'll venture a guess... Different scenarios. The marathon example is > more like deciding what a legal wind assistance cutoff should be -- is the > pacing by men outside the rules? No attempt is being made (that I can > see) to convert an assisted time to an unassisted one or vice versa, just > to decide if the assisted one counts as a record. > > Dan > > --- "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nah. We never compare distance results. Some postings to this list. Why > > didn't people that are all upset by the 100 analysis also come leaping > to > > Ndereba's defence. Radcliffe was nine seconds slower. Shouldn't that be > > the end of the discussion? > > Regards, > > Martin > > > > "Her time of 2:18.56 was > > hailed as the greatest performance ever in marathon history " > > > > "That this record survived should take nothing away > > from Radcliffe's outstanding 2:18:55 effort, in a women-only race it > > must > > be an intrinsically superior performance." > > > > "Paula Radcliffe erased every > > women's Marathon record on the books bar Catherine Ndereba's 2:18:47 > > which, > > HOWEVER, was set in a mixed race at Chicago." > > > > "Only Kenya's Catherine Ndereba had ever run faster than Radcliffe when > > she > > clocked 2:18.47 in Chicago last year, but that was in a mixed race where > > she > > was paced by men and so the London organisers are recognising > > Radcliffe's > > time as a women's world record." > > > > > > > > Richard McCann wrote: > > > > > As another post said, we don't try to make similar > > > comparisons between distance races where varying conditions have > > > substantial influence. > > > > > > ===== > http://AccountBiller.com - MyCalendar, D-Man, ReSearch, etc. > http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F > ------------------------------------------------------------ > @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax > / / > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com
