In road-running terms, I quickly realised that talent-wise I'm decidedly average to poor (road stuff typically 10k 48 min; half marathon 1.50ish, 4.10ish marathons), but I'm enthusiastic and bloody-minded which keeps me going. As a climber I fall squarely into the category marked 'bimbler'!
Now this is hardly a new observation, but it's very obvious that at races a simple Darwinian rule applies namely:
'The smaller the event, the narrower the gener pool' (i.e. the higher the proportion of thin, lanky body types and the stouter I feel).
I'm curious to know whether the distribution between talent and enthusuaism is the same for fell running as on the road or whether there 'average' ability is distincly higher?
BM