Thanks.
Thanks.
If you feel amazing running for an hour, that should be a good guide--I question why you didn't try XC or something earlier. Looks like you have decent speed but poorish speed endurance (e.g. better at 100m and 5k than 800m and mile). Your 200, especially in a relay, shouldn't be slower than double your 100 (and even if we assume your FAT 100 to be 12 flat, you're off). Sub-40 10k in practice looks like the most potential.
jrwolfi wrote:
162430 wrote:Just very obvious stuff; I don't claim to be any type of expert. The times that the kids run are more telling than anything else.
Anyways, my body type assessment is very general: for example, we had a new kid join that was 6'0" 185lbs and decently ripped last year - sprinter. Another kid who joined was about 5'8" 120lbs - distance. The usual rules of thumb are also good - skinny ankles for a distance, big quads for sprints, etc.
As for form - I pay closest attention to form during the 100m and 400m time trials. Easy-to-spot sprinters run on their toes and use their upper bodies more visibly than their distance oriented counterparts . Conversely, the easiest distance types to spot are the "shufflers". Shufflers generally have a low knee drive, a slight backwards lean, and a low arm carriage with minimal swing.
take a runner like me though; I ran a 100m in 11.6 (hand time) 200m in 24.6 (relay split) and 400m in 55.3 (fat). my 800m was 2:07.4 so by the looks of it im a sprinter. but the one mile I did race in High school was a 5:04 and it was essentially a walk in the park, I did not sweat or even get out of breath afterwards or had any sign of fatigue. not to mention my long runs (4.5-6 miles) were at 6:10 pace on average. so am i a sprinter?
now a freshman in college I began training soley for the 400m. I hadnt done a long run in months and was hitting sprint workouts only, one day we had a charity to see how many laps we could do in an hour and for every lap money was donated. i hit 8.5 miles with out any sign of fatigue and it felt amazing. what type of runner am I?
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kimani wrote:
If you feel amazing running for an hour, that should be a good guide--I question why you didn't try XC or something earlier. Looks like you have decent speed but poorish speed endurance (e.g. better at 100m and 5k than 800m and mile). Your 200, especially in a relay, shouldn't be slower than double your 100 (and even if we assume your FAT 100 to be 12 flat, you're off). Sub-40 10k in practice looks like the most potential.
I did cross junior and senior year. junior year i was slightly overweight and prd at 19:28 5k. senior year I had pneumonia through the summer, then got a knee injury right before the championship meets so my best was only 18:56... I split 17:40ish during a 4 mile run like 3 months later.
im sure im not the only athlete whos like this too.
If you can't sprint you do distance. If you can't run distance then you practice.
School kids wrote:
I am not sure where you guys are growing up where people don't figure out they are sprinters until someone trains them as sprinters
Andre Degrasse, NCAA 100 and 200m Champion (2015), did not know he was fast until he ran a 100m as a Senior in High School. He only ran because they did not have enough guys to field a basketball team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZA6YG2tf4I am trying out for track and I was wondering what event I should do. When I played soccer I could sprint faster than some of the high school girls. ( I am in middle school). But I can run a mile without stopping and in about 8 minutes 40 seconds.
I took a 23andme test, and it told me that I have the sprinter gene. The thing is that I suck at sprinting. I lose my ability to run fast *really* quickly if I don't do any speed work, and I generally feel like I could run for hours at the right speed.
I'm a bit bulkier than most runners (although I do eat more than I should) but the main reason why I know that I could never be a sprinter is my height. Isn't it fair to say that if you're below a certain height, you're lungs aren't going to be big/powerful enough to be a sprinter regardless of genetics? And that you're more likely to have the power to weight ratio to be an efficient distance runner if you keep your weight under control?
Isn't it fair to say that if you're below a certain height, you're lungs aren't going to be big/powerful enough to be a sprinter regardless of genetics?
real sprinters don't use their lungs