Genetic talent impacts what results we get from a certain amount of training, but more often than not it’s a lame excuse for people who don’t want to work harder rather than a true limiting factor, and how our individual journey compares to another persons is irrelevant anyways.
Any able bodied person can achieve a relatively high level of performance given they find the right event and do the right training for long enough, but most of us never even work hard enough and consistent enough to fully discover all our specific talents and aptitude. The normal paths people take to get into the sport select for a very narrow type of “conventional” talent, but there’s a lot of different types of talent out there that can be leveraged.
Rarely will any of us get anywhere near out genetic limit of performance.
So have fun, work hard, and don’t worry about anyone’s running progression besides your own.
I’ll make an adjacent hot take to this:
Genetic talent impacts what results we get from a certain amount of training, but more often than not it’s a lame excuse for people who don’t want to work harder rather than a true limiting factor, and how our individual journey compares to another persons is irrelevant anyways.
Any able bodied person can achieve a relatively high level of performance given they find the right event and do the right training for long enough, but most of us never even work hard enough and consistent enough to fully discover all our specific talents and aptitude. The normal paths people take to get into the sport select for a very narrow type of “conventional” talent, but there’s a lot of different types of talent out there that can be leveraged.
Rarely will any of us get anywhere near out genetic limit of performance.
So have fun, work hard, and don’t worry about anyone’s running progression besides your own.