Stupid runners

Nunya wrote:

To the original posters question I would have to say Jason........nuff said.

Which Jason? Jasonin? or a different Jason. There is a very good runner named Jason who would definitely apply.

So far, you're the only one talking about sprinters racing in distance spikes. Everybody else was discussing the advantages of sprinters using them as a training spike.

If you're looking for me to explain the steeple spike user, no can do.

To clarify, short sprinters do NOT wear mid-distance shoes in their races, but sometimes in training to protect their bodies.

Anyway, how about people from other teams ? The field hockey team used to love to retrieve their balls from the track (when they rolled off the infield turf where they were practicing) right when we were running by. One time, this girl runs out to get one and gets smashed by a group running 150's. She's fine, but her stick nailed one of my teammates in the you know where. He sang soprano for many minutes.

Who Will? Cox Will! wrote:

yeah, but they wore sprinting shoes for these fast work out right, and for racing right. how does a sprinter justify buying distance shoes for sprint races?

Who buys spikes in college. Just go to the equipment guy and say "I want those."

Also, you said something about racing in distance spikes being so stupid that a person doesn't belong in college track.

In the 100m, there is no reason to wear distance spikes, unless there is some fit issue with the runner. However, the 200m is as different from the 100 as the 1500 is from the 10,000. The reasons I gave before still exist. In fact, a physicist could argue that with a more rigid shoe, you are able to run fractionally faster than before because energy is going into forward momentum rather than in torquing the shoe. But I'm not a physicist. I was an exercise physiologist, but then I decided I needed more money...

Uhh, I had a roommate in college who burnt the pasta. Seems he didn't know you had to boil water to cook it and just put the dry pasta into a pan on a hot burner.

I had to buy my spikes in college.

That's a real bummer. I wouldn't have bought a lot of the stuff they gave me (like training spikes, crappy adidas gear, etc.) but then again, your school probably still has a track program. Mine doesn't.

Didn't she once come barreling down the home stretch, kicking like someone was chasing after her with a knife, only to later realize she had another lap.

I remember watching a marathon a while ago (5-10 years ago), must have been Boston or NY. I remember a relatively green athlete, quite young and in his first marathon, ran 61-62 through the half. He had a lead of several minutes, and was not caught until about mile 20.

The guy who passed him said "Drink some water?"

He replied, "Water?"

Not the brightest move, but I do recall he finished in good time even though he crashed something fierce. Gotta give him credit for having balls and being a tough SOB for sticking it out.

I also hate seeing sprinters racing in zoom countries. Get a clue.

There can be a reason for this.... A few of the indoor tracks I ran on in college didn't want any hard spike plates on their 'precious' indoor tracks, so we had to get something like a Zoom Country to race there. Since I couldn't really afford multiple spikes, I had to wear the same pair indoors and out, for a year or two....

I would have to nominate the very slow girls "spinters" from high school. They really weren't sprinters, but they ran the 100m very slow and weren't willing to work hard enough to run upwards of 3 miles per day of be a distance runner. Bascially, they were just on the team beacause we didn't make it hard at all to get a varsity letter, and they wanted to run track one year, get a nice letter, and certainly not come back another year. Well, the thing I really didn't like about them was when I'd be doing a workout in lane 1 and they were sprinting straight and walking curves (or vice versa.) They were susposed to do this in the outside lanes (3,4,5,6) but they really didn't care. They would often walk (or run slowly on the sprints) 4-5 girls abreast in the first 3 lanes. That was really annoying.

They may not run anymore but i've had quite a few stupid track coaches. The one thing they all had in common was that they were all former sprinters. They refused to let me go on a run longer than 5 miles, outlawed running on sundays, had no idea what a tempo run was, tried to make us do all of our runs on the track, and had me running in dual meets when i was too injured in pratice. Pretty much every workout was an interval ao nobody had a chance to recover from workouts. These people had no idea what they were doing.