Could Rupp break 10.0 if he became a sprinter.

11.50 tops

Give him the benefit of the doubt, he could at least run 10.5

No

sprinter guy wrote:

11.50 tops

Sounds about right. There was an extensive thread a few months ago re: distance runners attempting to sprint. While no one doubts that a distance runner can crank up a decent enough speed in the middle of a race, the limiting factor was their lack of acceleration. In a 100m race between a sprinter and a distance runner, the race would be over by the 15m mark.

No way in hell can Rupp or any other distance runner ever break 10 seconds in the 100m.

With or without testosterone cream?

Yes, but it would take all 6 squirts.

Dope police wrote:

With or without testosterone cream?

He's need a hell lot more than that , but remember Salazar was a client of Victor Conte.

Someone said 10.5 - i hope that was a joke. No way he does that.

He has went 11.02 in a workout sooooo

Wowohn wrote:

He has went 11.02 in a workout sooooo

Yeah, with a running start - in the middle of a 200m internal - uh huh. You distance guys just don't get how difficult it is to get up to top speed in only a few strides. Also, you have no friggin' clue how difficult it is to drop even a couple of tenths from a 100m time. Guys work all season to shave off a few hundredths, and you think Rupp could drop his 100m time more than a second?? (and it's BS that he ran 100m in 11.02).

After some smack talk I convinced the distance part of my track team a few years ago to race me in the 100m to see who was the fastest. Like 4 of us ran close to 11 flat, and this was 3 weeks after season was over. No starting blocks, no sprinting spikes, no practice, just a short warm up then a sprint in distance spikes and half us were within .7 seconds of 10.5.

With sprint training, block training, weight lifting, sprint drills again and again I would be extremely surprised if I we wouldn't go sub 10.5. Ofc someone like Rupp can do it.

Easily wrote:

No starting blocks,

Yeah, that just means you probably cheated the reaction time and were generous with the watch. If you signed up for an all comers race and ran a fully automatic time it would be way slower, I would put money on it.

Another great post by HardLoper

you are so confident!

Vigil says "most good middle distance runners can all run sub 11.0 in the 100 meters."

Whats Rupp's 1500m time?

I'm gonna go with Dr. Vigil on this one buddy.

Okay, if I'm reading this correctly and you're a high schooler on a high school track team's distance team, there's no way you would go sub 10.5, I don't think you quite understand how fast that is... 10.5 easily qualifies you for nationals, so if you really think you're a distance runner who's just a little bit of training away from being a national level sprinter, I would really doubt that

Easily wrote:

you are so confident!

Vigil says "most good middle distance runners can all run sub 11.0 in the 100 meters."

Whats Rupp's 1500m time?

I'm gonna go with Dr. Vigil on this one buddy.

Of course I am confident, I am right. Vigil meant a flying 100 meters, I hope you know the difference. What's the over/under and much you want to bet on your 100 meter race?

Na we were sophmores at a community college and no he didn't mean a flying 100 or he would have said that. I could run a 50 400m, and so can most of these other good distance runners. What kind of 400m does a sub 11 100m runner run? Probably around a 50.

Easily wrote:

After some smack talk I convinced the distance part of my track team a few years ago to race me in the 100m to see who was the fastest. Like 4 of us ran close to 11 flat, and this was 3 weeks after season was over. No starting blocks, no sprinting spikes, no practice, just a short warm up then a sprint in distance spikes and half us were within .7 seconds of 10.5.

What a stupid post.

You know how much "close to 11 flat" means to a sprint coach?

NOTHING.

Come back with a time that isn't skewed by your coach's inability to use a watch.

Wowohn wrote:

He has went 11.02 in a workout sooooo

"sooooo"? Really??

Why do you type like a 17 year-old girl?

Anyway, Bolt had run 8.7 for a flying 100, sooooo I guess he is good for an 8.2 100 by your moronic logic.

Relay split +0.8-1.0 ~= 100 time for a sprinter. Rupp is so feeble you need to add at least a second, probably more. I doubt he breaks 12.0 FAT out of the blocks.

Didn't El G run like 9.8 in practice once?

If your 400m time is only 50 flat, there is no way you could run 11 flat or even close to it. You ran 50 flat off of the strength you have from distance running allowing you to run the 400 much closet to max speed than a sprinter could.

For a metric, I have run about 15 races in the 100 with FAT timing, about 40 in the 400, and about 50 in the 800 and my pr is 11.59, 50.04, 1:57.

You cannot simply extrapolate based on 400 time and assume you'll run the same 100 as a sprinter with the same 400 time as you. If you could, that sprinter who runs the same as you in the 400 could run the se as you in the 1500, right? It is the same multiple of 4x the length.

I think if rupp trained for the sprints he would run in the 11.2 range or a bit slower.

Somebody like nick symmonds, who has more speed would be more in the 10.8 range I think or maybe a hair faster.

What makes these guys elite at their respective distances (800, 5000) is not blazing speed, but the ability to hold a higher percentage of max speed for a long distance than others.