We were told that it would be physically impossible to manufacture adequate supplies of the vaccine needed to protect the population. Well, the vaccine which was produced is probably gathering dust in some warehouse as a hedge against a plague that never was. A few years later an insect called the Medfly was being touted as the California farmers' worst nightmare. According to the experts, if only one of these little critters was able to sneak across to border into the Golden State, acres of crops would disappear faster than underwear on the clearance table at a Filene's basement sale. Of course, the Medfly, as cunning an insect as ever lived, likely read the news accounts and promptly headed away from the mainland toward Hawaii.
Sometime runners tend to put too much stock in what is said or written by the so called experts.
We take their pronouncements literally, forgetting that each one of us is unique and has individual needs. The late Dr. As both a physician and a runner, his life experience clearly demonstrated to him that what works for one runner won't necessarily be the answer for someone else. He won the Gold Medal in the '84 Olympic Marathon after wolfing down a steak the night before the race. Steve Spence didn't put much stock in the belief that lifting heavy weights slows down the distance runner.