Why do runners hate sprinters?

I love them and they love me

we do the 4x4 together

They don't love me. I try to hang after practice and they ignore us.

We even offered to hang with them so they could catch some of the women our perfect bodies attract.

Boy, those distance dudes sure are insecure about themselves.

Actually, my experience with the sport has been that distance runners get no respect from sprinters. Sprinters don't care how fast such-and-such ran the 5000 today. After all, he's just some skinny geek who runs distance because he isn't fast enough to sprint, right? But the distance runners, on the other hand, are paying attention to the sprint events. For instance, look at the distance runners on Letsrun who could instantly tell you what the WR is for the 100, 200, and 400 and name a dozen of the top athletes in each of those events. On the other hand, how many sprinters know who the hell Kenenisa Bekele or Hicham El Guerrouj are? Or even our own boys like Alan Webb and Dathan Ritzenhein?

Actually, I rarely see any interaction between sprinters and distance runners at all. At the elite level, the only time I can remember seeing any was at Millrose one year when Jon Drummond complimented Suzy Favor Hamilton on her new short hairdo. Otherwise, the twain just doesn't meet.

Yanqui wrote:

Actually, I rarely see any interaction between sprinters and distance runners at all. At the elite level, the only time I can remember seeing any was at Millrose one year when Jon Drummond complimented Suzy Favor Hamilton on her new short hairdo. Otherwise, the twain just doesn't meet.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm getting at. The distance dudes just don't like us.

I enjoyed the sprinters when I was in HS, and I enjoy them now that I'm coaching (I coach the distance runners).

The other day proved to be an eye opener for one of our freshman sprinters. The sprint coach gve the sprinters their workout (10x100m w/ lots of recovery). My top distance runner got back from their run (8 miles) and was getting ready to do their strides (10x100m). The sprinter was done and stretching as the distance kid was taking off his shoes to do his strides. The sprinter was in disbelief that the distance kid was about to do the same workout he had just completed after finishing 8 miles.

Using an example of how one freshman sprinter trains and attempting to compare to sprinters in general is absurd.

Lots of sprinters train incredibly hard. The distance runners that run 50 miles a week and talk about how hard they are training aren't doing anything better than the sprinter who runs 10x100m.

What kind of pansy ass workout are those sprinters doing??? 10 x 100m? Is that it????????

Must be some damn slow sprinters on that team.

As for your distance dudes, tell them to meet us in the weight room before one of their runs then let's see how man strides (whatever those are) they can handle. Tell them to run them all out, full speed too.

We had a lot of asshole sprinters on my high school team. We also had a 1:53 800m runner whom the sprinters regarded as nothing more than another pansy ass distance runner. Then one day he jumped in a 200m on a whim and proceeded to destroy a field of sprinters that included a hurdler who was the biggest asshole jock in the school. It was glorious.

I Am Fast wrote:

We can't help but laugh at them. They're so goofy looking. Skin and bones. Uncoordinated. None of them play football or any other sport. They seem to all hang out together and are never with any girls.

I only know a little about the Webb boy from reading some stuff here. Don't know any about the others though.

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You forgot a few things. The geeky skinny kid is usually a very good student. The majority of sprinters might play other sports, but more than likely, the odds are the sprinters make less $$ in their lifetime than the distance runners do. And, when the girls become women, they know the score - they are not dumb. The geeky skinny kid is now a successfull MBA graduate making well into 6 figures before he is 30, and the women are all over him.

The sprinters are at the bar or on the corner when they are 30, still talking about the old days.

Who's laughing now?

You want to know why distance runners dont like sprinters (i.e you) because of things like that cocky nob head comment you just made!

Im a sprinter and I get on great with the distance chaps in my club, I train just as hard as them guys and they respect that and vice versa.

Distance runners hate the type of cocky ass sprinters who swagger like their gods gift just cause they can break 23 for 200 (which isnt too impressive) and who think they can pull of a one piece.

You show respect, you get it back. simple

Why do sprinters hate runner? What's up with that?

Surprise! wrote:

Using an example of how one freshman sprinter trains and attempting to compare to sprinters in general is absurd.

Lots of sprinters train incredibly hard. The distance runners that run 50 miles a week and talk about how hard they are training aren't doing anything better than the sprinter who runs 10x100m.

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This is a joke right?

Sprinters in general train as hard as distance runners? Are you so wrapped up in your world that you think the rest of us have never been to a high school or college track practice and seen the difference in the way these two disciplines train and practice?

Middle distance runners train in sprints and ldr drills. The sprinters do hard intervals with very very long recoveries. And, they very often do less numbers of intervals. It is no big surprise to me a former college ldr and former h.s. ldr coach to hear that a ldr does a sprinters workout after doing 8 miles.

Remember, a ldr that is worth his salt has to be able to run hard when everyone is tired.

A sprinter can for the most part, get away with talent.

We all know of a fast runner from elementary school playground that could tear it up!

Often those guys still do it on the high school level with little effort.

The difference is sually what develops later in life. Many people who are natural athletes like sprinters, assume they can do well on every level. The ldr that works hard is usally the same kid who is involved in student government, volunteering in the local charities, and graduates college with honors and goes on to make more money than your average sprinter.

Word!

Its called the American Racial Divide.

Surprise! wrote:

Using an example of how one freshman sprinter trains and attempting to compare to sprinters in general is absurd.

Lots of sprinters train incredibly hard. The distance runners that run 50 miles a week and talk about how hard they are training aren't doing anything better than the sprinter who runs 10x100m.

WRONG. I used to be sprinter and competed at the DI collegiate level. We trained with alot of intensity and our workouts weren't easy. But running 50+ mpw on top of workouts like 12x400 at mile race pace? That takes a whole other level of mental toughness and pain tolerance. 10x100m is just as hard? Please. Been there, done that. Distance running is hard and, speaking as a former scholarship sprinter, I have mucho respect for the good distance runners out there.

I was a sprinter in high school and college before "becoming" a distance runner in grad school. I ran the 200/400 and now run the 5000/10000 with the occasional mile or ten miler.

To the untrained eye (i.e. the typical Letsrun poster's eye) sprinters have it easy. Do lots of drills to warmup, do three or four intervals with lots of rest, go fool around in the weight room, then go home. Simple, right? What most distance runners don't realize is that nearly everything sprinters do is intense. Far greater intensity than the long distance workout. Think you've seen God after a mile repeat workout, try running a 500, 300, 150 at close to 100% with short recoveries. And I don't mean "distance runner sprinting" I mean ALL OUT.

We have to spend much longer warming up than you do because when we sprint at practice, it's close to all out. No room for error. Our intervals are FAST. If your track team's sprinters were running slower than you were in comparable intervals, your sprinters just sucked. Just because you do 8 strides after a long run doesn't mean you're doing my workout.

My college has a good sprint team and a solid distance crew. We got along great because we understood that although the workouts are different, we were both working as hard as the other group.

Very well said. This year I stepped down from steeplechase training to focus on the 800 and was surprised to find how difficult short sprint workouts can be. It's amazing how good you can feel after doing 8x400 at mile pace, and then feel completely obliterated finishing the workout with 2x150 all out. Sprint workouts are short, yes, but they are very intense and it is necessary to take the optimal recovery required.

What sprinters lack in endurance they make up for in speed...vice versa for distance runners.

It mostly comes down to individual experience. i go to a very diverse school where most of the black kids are crappy sprinters who get in our way on the track and are huffing and puffing from their 800m warmup jog. During indoor track, when we have to run in the hallways because of snow outside, usually the annoying ignorant sprinters purposely get in our way and try to act cool showing us up. So that's why i have cologne in my pocket sometimes during our run and spray it in their eyes if they want to f*** w/ us. that is why i have 0 respect for lazy ass sprinters.

I play ncaa hoops, my gf runs the 1500m, heres what i think.

sprinters get more girls

sprinters are tougher

sprinters are dumber

sprinters are more naturally gifted

most distance runners work harder

distance runners are smarter

female distance runners are hotter

pole vaulter chicks are the hottest

male distance runners are socially screwed up

there are usually more jobber distance runners

just my opinion from what ive seen