Calvin386 wrote:
DFW_Tri wrote:
I’m with you Dev. Whatever we feel may be “slow” derives from our own experiences at various paces/training loads none of which can remotely relate to what he is putting his body through. I don’t care what his times are, and I don’t care what you want to label it (heck call it the 15-17 hour/day exercise challenge for all I care), the prospect of waking up day after day and doing what he is doing is positively mind-blowing.
You are stating subjective truth. Which would be whatever you decide is slow is slow based on whatever you want the qualifying factors to be.
Mugan is stating objective truth. Which would be facts that can be verified by actual accomplishments. There is "fast" based on actual accomplishments achieved in the pool in competitions like the Olympics and other events. This sets the bar. This objectively defines "fast". Then there is treading water, which would be not swimming. Everything in between can be objectively defined.
IC is objectively swimming slow. Most of us are swimming slow and it is not condescending to state the fact.
Using this logic, everthing other than the 100m sprint in track, 50m free in swimming, and kilo in cycling track are slow.
Fast is relative to the event at hand, not relative to the fastest possible in a sport.
As none of us have done 100 x 100 days of 140.6 wiht drafting and IV's, we don't really know how good or bad he is. The ultra guys who have done decas likely have the best window into whether what he is pulling off is fast or slow relative to what other humans have done.
But really, this is not a race, its a journey divided into 100 segments. The journey includes rest and refueling, not just the exercise, all in finite non moveable 24 hour segments.
Like DFW, I don't like aspects of his online misrepresentation, but that does not take away from the difficulty of what he is pulling off.