When we give thoughts about the world of running, the fastest man of earth Usain Bolt could have come into mind. He won an impressive 6 Gold Medals in the Olympic sprinting event 3 in Beijing 2008 and 3 in London 2012 and 11 Gold Medals in World Championship. How about the long distance runners? Did it come to mind that they are Africans or the Kenyans that dominated the long distance event?
Professor Yannis Pistsiladis has collected and research on the DNA of quite a number of world class athletes and from which he concluded that there was no significant difference between the difference races. Then what causes Jamaicans to dominate the sprinting events or the Kenyans to dominate the long distance events?
Jamaica is a country with a few popular sports like Track, Cricket and Soccer. The country itself has invested immensely in school’s Track and Field facility. Being a popular sport, it is also their way out of poverty. The Olympic medallists are hailed as a hero’s back home. With the right culture, environment and coaches it is no wonder they produce world class athletes.
How about long distance running, the top long distance runners actually came from a town known as Eldoret lying in the Great Rift Valley. The top athletes for long distance running actually lived predominantly in areas of high altitude. Altitude training has long been used by endurance athletes to improve performance because the thin air forces the body to produce more oxygen carrying red blood cells which in turn boosts endurance.
Kenyan youngsters do not run to school for fun, it is usually out of necessity due to the lack of public transportation. They could clock in excess of twenty kilometres per day, you could say their training started since young. This was when by their early 20s, they could have clocked in their 10 000 hours of training, if you are to remember the 10,000 hour rule which I had summarized previously.
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