Charles,
It's not dead. I'm available.
I was a runner for a couple of decades. As an engineer I always recorded my data and tried to make sense out of it.
When I graphed distance vs time on log-log paper I got a straight line. This, of course, led to the exponential equation in "Athletics Records and Human Endurance."
You can read the article in its entirety at: http://www.runscore.com/course...nt/Articles/ARHE.pdf
The link in my original posting had expired. Thanks to your inquiry it's fixed.
Best, Pete