In 1968 Jim Hines became the first person to run 100m in under 10 seconds (without “illegal” levels of wind assistance).
It would be 9 years till Silvio Leonard joined him in the sub-10 club.
6 years later, Carl Lewis and Calvin Smith did it two months apart.
And 5 more people joined them in the 80s.
22 more guys did it in the 90s.
40 more from 2000 to 2009.
And 73 in the last full decade.
Averaging 7 new people per year running sub-10 per.
Only one guy hit that time for the first time in 2020.
Then 11 more did it last year in a four month window.
I’m sure you remember something happened in 2020.
I’m not going to put the C word in here (not that one) as it makes it more likely it’ll go to your junkmail.
There won’t have been many official athletic meets in that year where runners could get an officially recognised time.
They were still working hard behind the scenes though.
Hence the explosion of performances when competitions were back on,
Because, whilst those 10 seconds are all we see, many thousands of hours have gone into that.
Sprinting (and the throwing events, I suppose) must have the most disproportionate correlation between what we see and what goes into what we see.
But practically all things have that disproportionate relationship.
A massive difference between what we see and the entirety of the story,
A two hour film taking months or years to make and countless person hours (if that’s the right term nowadays?).
And that person we know that appears to be “naturally slim” isn’t showing us all the thousands of times that they’ve made better food choices than they could’ve done.
The friend “who can eat whatever they want and never put on weight” isn’t displaying all those times that they averaged out somewhere in the week to make what we just saw them eat work.
All the research shows that when we’re in a verified, sustained calorie deficit, everyone ever tested loses weight.
What numbers make a deficit may vary person to person (mostly body size and composition and activity levels)………….
But that doesn’t mean that some people don’t lose weight in a deficit and others do.
It just means that, if we appear to be in a deficit and aren’t losing weight………..
We’re not actually in a deficit.
We don’t see what other people do behind the scenes to create or enable what we do see.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
If we want to achieve the same results, we just need to make sure that what we’re doing whilst nobody’s watching…………..
Enables what we want to happen to happen.
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Much love,
Jon ‘Working on setting a lifetime PB in the 100m myself this year. Luckily I wasn’t very fast as a teenager’ Hall
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