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Birthplaces of the 100 fastest 10km runners of all time (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 82 points 2 years ago (13 children)

The topography explains it all. https://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml

tl;dr The people of that area in East Africa naturally live close to sea level, however there are easily accessible elevations changes that distance runners have trained on for probably centuries. It turns out that training at high altitudes and recovering at low altitudes provides a tangible and demonstrable advantage compared to just single elevation training.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The school of thought has generally changed.

Live high, train low is now the prevailing methodology.

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