Multieventgirl wrote:
The 800 at the end of the hept/pent... most painful thing I ever have to do! I've seen girls break down and cry before they hate it so much
Break down and cry during a two-lap race? That's pathetic. I mean the 800 is a painful race but for crying out loud that's sad.
The 800 is 2 laps. Less than 2 minutes. It is painful but nothing like the 5k.
Has to be a 5k. Your on the 'edge' for 14 minutes.
Anyone who has run competitive 5k on the track knows the hell that the last 1K is.
I've run both the 800 and 5000 on the track, and while my PRs (1:58, 15:46) *might* only win local city/parks and rec track meets, I would have to go with the 800 over the 5000. Maybe that is just because I'm biased toward the mid-distance events. I'll probably catch shit for this comment for multiple reasons, but I think that the final 150m of the 800 is more painful than the last 800-1000m of the 5000. But... in the last part of both races, I usually wish that I could be doing something more enjoyable, like showering with running short chafe-age (is that a word?), at least until after I cross the finish line.
Overall, I'm not sure of the toughest event, but those 400 hurdles look like hell.
Most painful, if you multiply the intensity of the pain by the duration = 5k
Requires skill, courage and a lot of athletic ability = Pole vault
Looks damn hard but I've never done it = 400H
Just plain tough when it goes bad = steeple
Requires a little of everything = 1500
400H and 400 and rest are a far second
but the longer distance's are much harder train for
Heptathlon and Decathlon are the hardest because they require an athlete to prepare for several events with various disciplines.
However, the single events are bit tougher to pick.
For the field I would say Pole Vault because it requires power, strength, flexibility, speed, timing and courage; six metres is pretty high.
On the track it has to be the Steeple (400m hurdles not far behind) because it just takes so much out of you. I think most people would agree that even an easy steeple run is pretty tough on the body, whereas all other events - even the 10,000 metres - pose very few problems for anybody who is fit (except maybe boredom of course).
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the 20,000 meter bus pull.
400h requires technique while dealing with lactic acid. nothing else is close.
i would say the steeple is the hardest event by far. short enough to build lactic acid, long enough to test endurance, and thetechnical aspect of barriers and water pit. Plus, if you get tired or hit a hurdle in the 400ih they fall down. You don't get that luxury in the steeple. Very high risk of injury.
The 10,000m is by far the toughest event in Track & Field. What other event is there that goes straight to a final because it is too tough to run prelims? It is usually run at night because a daytime 10k is deadly. It is such a tough event that the runners who run it will only do it a couple of times during a whole season.
My rankings:
1. 10k
2. Decathlon
3. 3000m Steeple
4. 800m, 400mH, 5000m are about the same
5. 5000m, Triple Jump, Pole Vault are about the same
Oops...I listed the 5000m twice....meant to put the 1500m on #5 instead of the 5000m
top 5 hardest things to do in track....
5th: 20k racewalk, b/c nobody cares
4th: 50k racewalk, b/c nobody cares but you have to go further
3rd: hour long run for the 55-59 yr old masters division
2nd: competing successfully while drug and blood dope free after competing via drugs or blood doping all career
1st: being a top sprinter while simultaneously showing class, respect, and humilty. very few have done it.
multievents aside
technically..the hardest by far is the pole vault and then teh triple jump. Both are incredibly unnatural motions
If toughest means requiring teh most diverse skills and abilities.. I would say the 400 hurdles..requiers sprinter speed and middle distance endurance as well as a great deal of agility and technique work.
20k RW
400 IH
3000m Steeple
Pole vault
110 HH
The javelin catch. Second is the shot put catch. Very dangerous. People actually die doing it.