If you could be world class in any track event, what would it be?

Defninitely the 800. It takes real man! FOR THE LADIES!!!!

living in reality wrote:

I shouldn't enter this pissing match, as I tend to agree that all athletes work hard, just differently based on your specialty. However, you implied earlier that sprinters work harder than distance runners, are you backing off of that claim now?

no, my point was that sprinters do work harder, albeit in a shorter amount of time. distance runners don't workout as intensely, but put in a lot more time, so in the end it pretty much evens out. just because they're not actually running for as long as distance guys doesn't mean they don't work hard.

high and mighty, if i'm understanding you correctly, most athletes at the top work as hard as they can, just not sprinters. ok makes sense. i guess we'll just have to wait until someone with some work ethic decides to try out sprinting, then we'll see some real fast times, maybe sub-9. by the way, i ran the 100, 200, and 400, so would you have half respect for me?

good one wrote:

high and mighty, if i'm understanding you correctly, most athletes at the top work as hard as they can, just not sprinters. ok makes sense. i guess we'll just have to wait until someone with some work ethic decides to try out sprinting, then we'll see some real fast times, maybe sub-9. by the way, i ran the 100, 200, and 400, so would you have half respect for me?

Actually, that's already been done. His name's Tim Montgomery, and THAT is how you train harder than most US sprinters. For the world class, the HSI guys seem to train as hard as you can without getting busted left and right: 3 hard days and 2 easy days on the track and weights 4 days/wk before track. This is four hours training time 4 days/wk and something like 18 hours a week total training time. Any harder than this and you get busted for drugs (Trevor Graham, Korchkemni, Greeks), injured (Dan Pfaff), or slower (Brits). What I think distance runners don't understand is that track workouts often aren't the hardest thing a sprinter does--it's the weights--and a guy like Mo or Ato might do 5X5@235 bench or 7X3X400 squat AND THEN go to the track and do 3X300 in 36. Forget about times, distance runners can't even DO the training. If you simply add up the numbers, the top American sprinters probably train 25+% more than the top American distance runners.

Of course, the 100 is the most respected event in track (and probably the Olympics) and the winners make the most amount of money. So guys like Asafa Powell don't work as hard as they can because they don't want to be rich.

Yeah, right.

Cough-cough- Tim MontDRUGery -cough-cough!!

Coach D wrote:

What I think distance runners don\'t understand is that track workouts often aren\'t the hardest thing a sprinter does--it\'s the weights--and a guy like Mo or Ato might do 5X5@235 bench or 7X3X400 squat AND THEN go to the track and do 3X300 in 36. Forget about times, distance runners can\'t even DO the training. If you simply add up the numbers, the top American sprinters probably train 25+% more than the top American distance runners.

What are you talking about! In college our distance guys where always the first in the locker room and the last one out. 100 miles of running a week is around 11 hours of running. On top of that you have weights, drills, strides, etc. Take that all into account and world class distance running is going to be working out for probably 20 hours a week. Forget the times, sprinters can\'t even DO the mileage.

Honestly, to be the best, no matter the event, takes A LOT of hard work.

Anyway, I would run the steeple!

Racewalk!

Sorry but I HAVE seen distance guys barf...more than once my friend.

Happy Easter.