Originally Posted by hobkirk

Ironman athletes are not the same as most of us. They are quite spectacular. I did not compare them to "us" - I just used their data to measure the relative strength between different age groups. There is a problem doing that, because the drop-off in performance for super-athletes is undoubtedly less than it is for "regular people." I might be proven wrong, but I expect that "their" results are not very different than "us." -

We may not be super athletes (mostly), but we are athletes (mostly), and I think our rate of performance drop is closer to Ironman contestants than it is to sedentary people.