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Originally Posted by ApexSpeed
Consider that mile runners ARE sprinting to their capacity, not to the capacity of a sprinter. They are sprinting for the purpose of running a mile, not 100m.
You build the engine to run a particular race, not all races.
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+1. Any running event at any distance requires the athlete to finish with nothing left in the tank, otherwise they will probably lose. At 100m, they need fast muscle that consumes fuel fast, and at 26 miles they need slow muscle that ekes the fuel out.
You mate is saying "could you win a GP at the speed of a Top Fuel dragster? No. Each athlete is 'built' a different way, and each, in that different way, is sprinting.
If you mean could a human run 1500m in 1' 50", my view is no. Then again, it was said that man couldn't run a 4-minute mile as the load on the body would cause a heart attack... until 1954 when Roger Bannister ran 3' 59". Since then we have taken 17 seconds off that record, so never say never!