sprints get enough national coverage and don't need the extra coverage here!
letsrun is all distance runner have, let's keep it that way!......for now
sprints get enough national coverage and don't need the extra coverage here!
letsrun is all distance runner have, let's keep it that way!......for now
all I know is sprinters and field athletes care far less about distance runners than vice versa. I think getting that excited about events you don't even do is just nerdy.
Sprints? No thanks mister. wrote:
Coach D wrote:shut up and watch the real athletes.
Real athletes don't strut around like they're hot shit for 12 minutes, false start 3 times, and then only actually run for 10 short seconds. And to top it all off, after the race, they dance around and give incomprehensible mumble mouth interviews.
real athletes also know how to catch and throw, and can do far more than simply run in circles.
true.
what about that swedish chick?
cover everything running and track and field!!!!!
i love our sport every event and Tyson Gay is an awsome story and athlete.
good job with the site WEJO and ROJO!!!
this site is great for running and track and field.
I love distance running but if Tyson Gay is healthy this year at worlds him Gay vs Bolt will be huge for our sport as a whole
I don't need to hear everything that happens in the sprint world, but when someone breaks a record or runs the 3rd fastest 200m of all time, I'd expect to read about it on Letsrun main page.
J.R. wrote:
This is let's run.
I wasn't aware that sprinters are performing some other action besides running?
Sprint races are exciting and dynamic and, lets face it, probably the only reason our sport is financially viable.
long and steady wrote:
You're wasting your time and ours.
Speak for yourself.
TK1451 wrote:
I wasn't aware that sprinters are performing some other action besides running?
Sprint races are exciting and dynamic and, lets face it, probably the only reason our sport is financially viable.
Most of the time they are sitting on their butts.
Sprints, and field event people remind me of football players. They are fat assed grunts who are only talented at sitting on their butts and running their mouths, but lousy at running anything more than 1 lap around a less than 1/4 mile track.
Sprinting is the reason that the sport of athletics is boring. In fact I never watch t&f on tv, because of the boring as h*** sprinters. Running only 1/4 or 1/2 a lap, or throwing a stone 60 feet is NOT an accomplishment. Try running 100 miles a week. Try running a 5k. Try running a marathon. Then you'll have an experience to feel good about and remember.
J.R. wrote:
Most of the time they are sitting on their butts.
Sprints, and field event people remind me of football players. They are fat assed grunts who are only talented at sitting on their butts and running their mouths, but lousy at running anything more than 1 lap around a less than 1/4 mile track.
Sprinting is the reason that the sport of athletics is boring. In fact I never watch t&f on tv, because of the boring as h*** sprinters. Running only 1/4 or 1/2 a lap, or throwing a stone 60 feet is NOT an accomplishment. Try running 100 miles a week. Try running a 5k. Try running a marathon. Then you'll have an experience to feel good about and remember.
How naive it is of you to think that all sprinters are lazy and don't work hard. Little do you know...
At the Olympics do you switch off when the sprints come on?
It's called lets run, not lets run long distance! I prefer middle and long distance myself but sprinting is still running.
All this thread reveals is that you are only really interested in one type of running - your own.
Try being a little less narrow minded and get the blinkers off!
Do you think 30 yr old rec league softball players have the balls to criticize major league baseball players?
Yet here, you geeks who run every day think you have the whole sport of track and field figured out.
The fact that you CAN run 70 miles per week and still can't win your local road race has you somehow believing that your opinion matters.
Sprinters "sit around" because that is how physiology dictates you train for that event. 3 to 7 seconds of maximal effort followed by at least 3 minutes recovery.
A sprinter could look at you and say, "hey dumbass, why do you run so slow all day long."
Fact is, with a few weeks of training even a sprinter could teach their body to run for an hour at a slow pace. NO amount of training will ever teach a distance runner how to correctly sprint well.
[quote]it is funny wrote:
Do you think 30 yr old rec league softball players have the balls to criticize major league baseball players?
what plantet are you from
you don't thing sports fan are assholes
monday morning QBing is part of sports
running needs more asshole fans not less.
it is funny wrote:
with a few weeks of training even a sprinter could teach their body to run for an hour at a slow pace. NO amount of training will ever teach a distance runner how to correctly sprint well.
Your statement just adds more proof that sprinters are stupid.
Flojo thought she was going to run a marathon, and couldn't ever break 20 minutes for a 5k. Warmeriner gives out marathon "advice", has he ever jogged even a single mile in his life - probably not.
Sprinters don't run. They sit, whine and moan, do a few 10 second strides (not too many now or too hard), then quickly sit back down on their fat lazy butts. Doing a few knee jerks and then sitting on your butt the rest of the day is not running.
What is your fastest last 2k for a marathon? That's what sprinting is about. What are your last 5 laps in a 10k? That is what sprinting is about. Scratching your butt and jumping up and down a few times is not running.
RUNNING is running.
What is ironic is how sprinters come to let's RUN, because no one ever goes to their own boring assed message boards.
W/O the sprints/hurdles there would be no money in T&F. All the public cares about are OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS.
Wow, J.R., what with the negativity?! I love long distance, middle distance, and sprint. Yes, it's running. Even if it's not your cup of tea, you should at least respect these athletes.
nice job stirring the pot, if that's your goal. If you really believe that, then you need to get over the fact that your mother didn't pay enough attention to you and that you still make suckling motions with your mouth when under stress.
Distance running, on the track at least, is second fiddle in glamour and money. That's reality, grow up, accept it and you'll be happier.
Elite sprinters, hurdlers, and jumpers put in a heckuva lot of very disciplined work, with more attention to detail than most distance runners will ever contemplate.
But those sprinters have NO medals in the distances.
The only reason they have a few worthless medals, is because they stop after 1/2 a lap or 1/4 of a lap or whatever; lack of attention span, lack of conditioning, lack of intelligence, you name it. I do have to mention intelligence, because that lack of fitness gets them nowhere in life. Most of them are dead by age 50. In the meantime, life involves something besides sitting on your butt.
Really don't give me that poor whiny picked on sprinters look. Any good distance runner who has been around a track with any sprinters there can attest that most of the time they are sitting on their butts. Not running.
And please, don't try to tell me you are fast, because you are done running after only 1/2 lap of the track. You are done because you are too tired and too lazy to run any farther.
Oh look, I ran 5 yards and stopped. I am fast. What a joke.
J.R. wrote:
But those sprinters have NO medals in the distances.
The only reason they have a few worthless medals, is because they stop after 1/2 a lap or 1/4 of a lap or whatever; lack of attention span, lack of conditioning, lack of intelligence, you name it. I do have to mention intelligence, because that lack of fitness gets them nowhere in life. Most of them are dead by age 50. In the meantime, life involves something besides sitting on your butt.
Really don't give me that poor whiny picked on sprinters look. Any good distance runner who has been around a track with any sprinters there can attest that most of the time they are sitting on their butts. Not running.
And please, don't try to tell me you are fast, because you are done running after only 1/2 lap of the track. You are done because you are too tired and too lazy to run any farther.
Oh look, I ran 5 yards and stopped. I am fast. What a joke.
Hahahahah. That was funny, but a poor analysis. I'm a distance runner, and think that tactical distance races are the most interesting thing in track, but the shorter and grass-related disciplines are quite interesting as soon as you learn a little bit about them.
J.R., I have a suggestion. Run a 200m. What the hell, it's easy right? But I want to run it out of blocks and bat out of hell as fast as you can the entire way. Try to break 24s at least.
I guarantee you will be swimming in lactic molasses by the time you hit 175m. You might learn something. And you will realize just how slow you are compared to a 21s sprinter.
I am all about distance/mid-distance. But you just sound like you have no idea what you are talking about.