Lazarus Lake: prediction

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…Putting aside your own events, do you feel that ultramarathons have become too commercial? They’re more commercial than they used to be. Everything changes. I think that there are still plenty of places for people to have the same experience, and the personal experience is not driven by the commercialization of it. The slower time limits is a bigger change than commercialization. When I started running ultras, the time limits were really pretty strict, and everybody who ran was young and in the prime of their career. If you had somebody run into their 40s, or even 50s, they were this rare exception. Now, a lot more people can run for a long time. It extended my career because they didn’t have the strict cut-offs they used to have. Eventually, you get old enough, you can’t make the cut-offs anyway. All of these are just the things that happen. Things either change or they die. How close do you think we are to the ultimate fundamental limits on human performance in running?…

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