BS: I don't believe it! (athletic achievements)

Subject: BS: I don't believe it!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 07:45 AM

It's difficult for the average person to appreciate the fanastic achievements of top athletes.
For example, the world long(broad )jump record is 29ft 4ins; now, I challenge any one there to measure out that distance and not think that it would be totally impossible to jump that far.
Here's another one. If you go to a gym, get on a treadmill and set the speed at 11 mph; now I would be very surprised if hardly any woman - and very few man - could keep running at that speed over more than a few minutes.
Well, top female distance runners could run at that speed for 26 miles(marathon distance). It's mind boggling!

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it!
From: Midchuck
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 08:03 AM

Human beings evolved to be able to catch game by running it down and hitting it with a club or sticking a spear in it. I mean, game like a deer, that can run twice as fast as a human, at the very least. But they can only do it for a few hundred yard (or meters, or metres, if you want to be picky). A human, in proper condition, can run all day and into the night.

One of my daughter's best friends has run 100 miles, over the mountains and through valleys with 100-degree + (F.) temperatures, in under 19 hours. And she's a Gurll...

It's just that most of us aren't in very good shape.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 09:00 AM

I take my exercise seriouisly. Why, at this moment I am having a good brisk sit.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it! (athletic achievements)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 12:52 PM

We are also very good distance runners - we keep the game in sight on open savannah and jog up to it till it runs then jog back up to it and so on till eventually we can get close enough to make it fall down or otherwise whack it with the femur of whoever we caught last time.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it! (athletic achievements)
From: gnu
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 02:45 PM

Nahhhh... hereaboust, we (used to) wait until the snow was deep, walk (snowshoes) em into heavy snow and smack em. Screw that running shit. Now, I would explain how game was taken in the warm months but I have upset the tree huggers enough already. Sorry for the thread drift.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it! (athletic achievements)
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 04:36 PM

We may have been designed to run, but later on we designed the open-topped Landrover.
And the rifle. And nets and hooks.
Unlike the cheetah, now we can lounge about both before and after we predate, like Gnu.

Some impressive athletes around, though, as Tunesmith says.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't believe it! (athletic achievements)
From: gnu
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 05:28 PM

Indeed, it is true. Humans are amazing. Not only in their endurance physically but in their mental capacity to enhance such endurance through physical training.

Whilst I may jest, I, as a man in my early twenties, through hard work, could stay on a squash court for 4 to 6 hours at a time and best most opponents, one after another. I long to have those days of physical prowess back. But, I pissed them away, as only humans can do.