Kinda a Throwback wrote:
Some have said the 1500m is too long to be run purely on hate. However, for my last collegiate race I plan on giving this a shot.
Advice, insights, warnings - all welcome.
You're quite mad, you know.
Kinda a Throwback wrote:
Some have said the 1500m is too long to be run purely on hate. However, for my last collegiate race I plan on giving this a shot.
Advice, insights, warnings - all welcome.
You're quite mad, you know.
Dan the Flash, thank you for being a complete bada$$. Go sleep with that hippy's ugly hairy-bushed girlfriend. You earned the hell out of it.
I was enraged as I did my preface strides. The though of sharing a track, much less a lane, with some of the sorry plebs I lined up with was so revolting I almost went apeshit on the line. The race went out rather slow; I sat just on the leaders shoulder and sneered at his classically Polish face and exagerrated shoulder movement. By 600 I couldn't believe I had been seeded with these GIRLS just coasting along casually. Naturally, I shot to the front with 750 to go and hammered the lap hard. I believe this was my fatal flaw. After 300m alone out front I lost touch with the anti-empathy that powered be previously. Everyone blew by me with 350 to go and I closed like shit - almost jogging across the line completely devoid of any hate. Not sure I'd recommend trying to run a 1500m on pure hate.
I suggest running on pure love. That's how I broke 4 in the 1500 by a pretty hefty margin.
Was that at swat last chance and do you go to NYU? I was there, and the dude matches your description perfectly.
No, this is a foolish and dangerous aspiration. Well-trained D1 athletes can go as much as the entire last 400m of their race on pure hate with only short term health effects, but even there extreme caution is advised and with longer distances anything could happen. Bruce Banner once ran an entire 1000m at Heps on pure hate and we all know what happened next.
Oh, I see what happened. You thought you were running on pure hate but it turned out to be mere animosity. Classic mixup. Consider yourself lucky all things considered.
Kinda a Throwback wrote:
I was enraged as I did my preface strides. The though of sharing a track, much less a lane, with some of the sorry plebs I lined up with was so revolting I almost went apeshit on the line. The race went out rather slow; I sat just on the leaders shoulder and sneered at his classically Polish face and exagerrated shoulder movement. By 600 I couldn't believe I had been seeded with these GIRLS just coasting along casually. Naturally, I shot to the front with 750 to go and hammered the lap hard. I believe this was my fatal flaw. After 300m alone out front I lost touch with the anti-empathy that powered be previously. Everyone blew by me with 350 to go and I closed like shit - almost jogging across the line completely devoid of any hate. Not sure I'd recommend trying to run a 1500m on pure hate.
Didn't work for Alan Webb either.
this "pure hate" idea has not aged very well now has it? embarrassing - to say the least.