Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by nbschulze on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:36AM
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That kinda says what I'm saying, top marathoners/distance runners are of average height (around 5'7").
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Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by chongli on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:08AM
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Average height for Japan, maybe, but not really anywhere in the Western world. Average height in the Netherlands is over 6 feet, for example.
Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by nbschulze on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:57AM
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Still not closer to 5 foot tall. I don't know how or why this is still an argument. Marathon runners are not 5' tall. That's tiny. And average height in the Netherlands is right at 6'.
Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by GFischer on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:08AM
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Netherlands is an extreme outlier (world's tallest people). 5 foot 7 is actually standard in my country and even on the tall side for my continent, South America (although better diet is fixing that). It's also tall for Asia and Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w...
Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by chongli on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:32AM
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Eliud Kipchoge, winner of the gold medal in Rio, is 5'5.5". That's closer to 5 feet than it is to 6.
Re:Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?
by nbschulze on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:59AM
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Yep, and the other two guys were both over 5'8". Actually, out of every distance event, 2/3 of the medal winners were over 5'8".
Feyisa Lilesa is 5'9" Galen Rupp is 5'11" Mo Farah is 5'9" Bernard Lagat is 5'8" Matt Centrowitz is 5'9" Paul Chelimo is 5'11" Tamirat Tola is 5'11" Taoufik Makhloufi is 5'9" Nick Willis is 6' Evan Jager is 6'2" Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad is 6'3"