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In article <1993Jan11.174805.12082@cs.ucla.edu>, page@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Thomas Page) writes:

|> Note that I am not talking about the minor differences between two elite
|> runners.  You cannot take runner A who runs a 3:49 mile and runner B who
|> runs a 3:54 mile and say A has more potential than B in the marathon.  But you
|> can say that since both A and B have elite performance in the mile, both
|> would be elite marathoners if they trained for it.  Further, if C trained
|> for the mile and could never break 4:12,  (ie. very talented but not elite), C
|> will be a very talented but not elite in the marathon. 


I think your assumptions, may be a little off the mark, performer C may very well
be able to be a world class marathoner.  The reason is that a world class marathoner
requires the ability to run 26 sub 5:00 min miles - if C can run one mile at 4:12 it
may be very likely that his body is loaded with slow twitch muscle fiber, not allowing
him to run world class mile times, but allowing to run 10km to marathons at world
class times - Runners such as Rob de Castella (AUS) does not have much pure mile
speed, but was able to run world class marathon times for approx 10 years!


IMHO, 

Bert Sandie