Chase

    Genius Hour #1.2      This week for my genius hour I decided what tests to perform on myself to determine my own limits so that my research may be applied in my own athletic endeavors. Endurance tests must be very well controlled with accurate statistics taken from the subject athlete. Being the other athletes I have chosen are dead, very old, or have little data available, I plan to research them and watch their performances, but I cannot run tests on them. However, since I can run tests on myself, I plan to use three different performances to attain my data. One of these tests has already been completed in the Spring of 2019, but data will be limited to my memory of it and my watch’s performance statistics. In the Spring of 2019, Coach Paul Yoakam and I met at the starting line of the track for a dreaded, yet extremely important workout. It was nearing the end of the season and I needed to break myself down so much that my body would access an ancient, p...

     Genius Hour #1.1      Today I began my first task for my genius hour called “The Limits of Human Endurance”. I began by gathering text-sources and deciding who and what my research foci would be. After a lot of debate I decided on a couple of books I have read and a few I have not. I am going to be constantly looking for more as my project goes on, but I have enough text-sources to start my study at least. My research focus is as follows: “In endurance sports, one athlete will nearly always prevail over the other(s). Why? What causes these athletes to have more of an edge than the others? And, is what causes these athletes to prevail more physiological or more psychological? Finally, is this causation of elite performance in some an esoteric, unreachable limit that is set in stone and may not be changed by the common athlete? Or, a more exciting possibility, is can these seemingly elusive limits be stretched and bent? “ I intend to study several elit...