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[quote=Anonymous][quote]One of my kids is on the track team. All the kids on the team do the same workouts every day. They all work hard and train hard. They all improve over time when they work hard. But when you go to the meets, some kids always run faster than other kids. Sometimes a kid joins the team that has never been a runner before and blows them all away at the meets. 
I have a relative who was just born physically strong- she was climbing things and running faster than all the other kids as a toddler. She has always had an advantage when it comes to running because she was born with the physical facility to be good at it. Her ability was simply there- her parents did not put her into running training as a two year old. 
We've all known people who learn things more quickly than others, who can instantly grasp a new concept, who are full of creative ideas. It's just like being born with an extremely strong body: they were born with extremely strong minds.[/quote]

Sounds like the Kenyans of yesteryear who never trained or ran track but you put them on an American track and they lapped everyone with holes in their shoes twice.  Definetely "gifted" runners and track stars.  I forgot to mention an important environmenttal fact; where they come from, there are no cars or school buses so they have to walk (or run) to and from the few distant schools  for several miles every day.  The weakest and smallest of the lot would win a Gold medal over here.  How about that for the effect of environment and how it plays on the new found performance on brand new and shining American tracks.  No running drills, no stretching and weight lifting, no coaching and no team.  Just the plain old effects of their daily tasks and conditioning on the ability to later make money running in America and Europe.  In the 70s, these guys and gals just trying to get to school had no idea they were ultimatley "training" and "prepping" for a track team.  Most of the normal  Kenyan school kids walking and running for miles daily to school to get an education because of local environmental conditions were all born "gifted" track stars.

Guys and gals, environmental conditioning over a long time plays a large role in the skill sets a human develops and perfects and can translate into your adolation and worship of a "gift" and the "gifted" as these youngsters speed around your tracks.  None of the Kenyan boys and girls walking and running daily just to attend a crowded thought they were gifted track athletes at the age of 5 and neither did their parents or the school system.

I'm sure if our NOVA kids were running back and forth to school daily for miles out of necessity (like in some parts of Kenya and Uganda) they too would begin to join the ranks of "gifted" track stars later running around a polyester oval carpet.  This environmental conditioning explains why many of our kids are obese here (cars, elevators, buses, nannies, video screens, plenty food and couches) and the kids over in Uganda and Kenya are generally thin.  Do not discount what a harsh environment over time does in modifying the endowed genetic material of a population...it may make you a fast runner as you try to escape danger or get to school on time![/quote]

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