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I am not going to try and change your mind, but I will leave you with this advice:

This sport is much more beautiful and enjoyable when you truly understand it.

Have a good season.[/quote]

Well said.

that was the stupidest advice ever.

do you think tyson gay ever ran over 12 secs for a hundred? you are either born with fast twitch muscles or you arent.. you can improve them to an extent by strength but you cant magically grow fast muscles. you are born fast, theres no disputing it.

im not saying sprinters dont work hard becuase they do, some work as hard as distance runners, and i have repect for them, but 85% of their ability is god given.

so dont come in here with that condescending "divine" quote saying we dont understand track... cuase its not track is science its just how the body works.

horrible advice.

? and not good advise = dumb and dumber.

care to elaborate? or do you just wana spell advice wrong again?

slow distance runners would not understand

and slow sprinters, actually any sprinters for that matter, cannot spell.

usain bolt was born running 9.69

he never trained.

get over yourself distance runner. you clearly are working yourself way "too hard".

here is this argument: take an average sprinter and an average distance runner. Match them up head to head in all track events, sprinter would take 100,200,400, 110 hurdles distance guy would take 800, 1500, steeple, 5k, 10k. 400 hurdles are a push. distance guy wins meet, has a bigger wiener, case closed.

and that's considering each event is run fresh; if its not, an even bigger edge goes to distance guy.

Championships are won in the field. They are started in the distances. Sprints add on.

ALL ATHLETES work hard and should be repected.

NO thrower wants to run. No runner ever wants to throw the steel ball on a 35 degree day or could pick up the 35 lb weight.

Sprniter are born so are distance runners - both work to get better.

Shut up and respect.

It wasn't my argument jon von douche, it was just an argument.

By the way, I agree with you and respect every type of athlete who works hard regardless if its the 10k, long jump, or speed golf.

Does MXC count in this argument? My event I think would be sinkers and floaters. You never know if that thing is gonna sink or not. It's nuts!

ford rules wrote:

here is this argument: take an average sprinter and an average distance runner. Match them up head to head in all track events, sprinter would take 100,200,400, 110 hurdles distance guy would take 800, 1500, steeple, 5k, 10k. 400 hurdles are a push. distance guy wins meet, has a bigger wiener, case closed.

and that's considering each event is run fresh; if its not, an even bigger edge goes to distance guy.

absolutely retarded post.

First. The sprinter could add in jumping events.

Second. Only in the psac where everyone is so horrible woudl you think someone who can win the 800 would win the 5k and 10k.

Ford rules you are a complete moron. Go run a 1530 5k.

excuse me mr dick jiggle, but if you read the premise to the argument you would realize it considered only track events and only two people (an average sprinter and an average distance guy) not the whole conference.

And yes a sprinter would probably win at sinkers and floaters but little man in the boat would give an advantage to the distance guy b/c of his larger leg/upper body mass ratio.

EVERY athlete who is good at any event/sport has some natural talent. Every athlete who is great at their event has some natural talent AND has worked for a very long time to get where they are. (Weiss, Clarke, Strauman, Havko)

All you can do is train as much as possible and hope you're one of the lucky ones that get's chosen to run fast.

I was never good or great, but I had a hella time doing it!

The Bear

wasn't the psac indoor meet this weekend? there's gotta be something that happened there that you guys want to talk about... i saw results, but does anyone have any insight?

The distance races were crazy overall. Beegle hammering in the mile, Weiss getting 6th. No one could have predicted that. In the 3k Weiss just hammered everyone, maybe getting revenge from the mile? 5k went out SLOOOOOOOW, then the last mile went real fast. Lots of bumping and pushing, Getz made a strong move and ran away with it, no one wanted to go with him with about 1k to go.

Weiss was never speed oriented. I know this from my experience in whooping on him.

how fast was the last mile of 5k? under 4.40? say for getz.

doubt it was under 4:40, but probably in the low 4:40's.