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Who knows?
The guy who bought mine said '...it's for my grandmother'. Hmmmmmmm.........
People are strange... why have a medal for something you didn't do?
*Polishes George Cross and Purple Heart*
From their website:
"Only runners who have completed half or full marathons will be wearing the Xempo logo, and Xempo verify all qualifying times, so you can be sure that when you are wearing a Xempo running top you're part of a pretty exclusive club"
Sounds a bit wanky, or maybe i'm just bitter because i'd only qualify for a white top!
Depends on your assessment of "how hard" I suppose - its like fast and slow in that its a relative term applied (usually) to percieved effort, rather than a defined formula for amount of work put in (which is the way you are probably thinking about it).
Ooo nothing like semantic twisting to really start off an agrument
it ahs to be part of it.............but all the other factors....of age, sex, general health, size............and natural ability must be part of it as well........
some people can train hard all year around and struggle to run a 4;30 marathon................and a young lad might go out without any training and run faster.....
but training hard will improve any indiviuals time..................we just aren't all playing on a level playing field
DHMD : Why limit the colour change to the finish line? Why not incorporate GPS and get them to change colour as you run .. inbuilt pacing. Now that might interest Mr Ballantyne?
Seren in a sense I agree with you, but there is an equalising effect of training (it takes years), which acts to level the playing field of genetic advantage, where long distance running is concerned. Gender and age excepted perhaps.
However, you have to build up to the sort of mileage necessary in order for this to happen and herein lies the problem, robustness developed during training and training for your current fitness both very much come into play at that point. This is part of the problem of "get fit fast" programmes as they lead runners out of virtuous training cycles (which can take 10 years to complete) and into desructive ones.
I hope that makes sense, I'm not sure it does
How do you get that you win Olympic gold from working the hardest from " there must be a link between performance and effort"?
[giggle]
Let me tell you where I'm at...
I'll give you £50,000 for 40% of the business.
Other ideas I have are a minimum pace cut-off point that's enforced by a combine harvester driving along the course.
Dreadful. Why, anyone would think it was a...a business or something!
;-)
The only thing I can see is that every piece is made of a "Breathable, technical, wicking fabric. Hand-stitched to the highest quality for maximum performance."
If I was good enough to warrant a gold one, I'd want gold medal performance - no guarantee of that.
but do they have a purple belt in judo..........