600m Is The Bastard Bitch Of All The Distances.

Skuj wrote:

Every time I hear it I'm taken back to 72/73, Grade 5, bell bottoms, platformed shoes.....

I'm taken back to my freshman year in college! I'm older than you...lol...and my introduction to 100 mile weeks during X-C.

Carly Simon wrote:

One person is attempting to destroy several threads today. That's why I bumped the Marathoner Physique thread. Payback. And to let you know who is behind this.

You are:

a) way off base

b) extremely paranoid

c) all of the above.

u r wrong wrote:

Carly Simon wrote:

One person is attempting to destroy several threads today. That's why I bumped the Marathoner Physique thread. Payback. And to let you know who is behind this.

You are:

a) way off base

b) extremely paranoid

c) all of the above.

hey, where's that marathong physiqe thread...i can't find it...link?

Be good, or be sorry!

Carly, how about that link?

No way, the 800m is the bastard bitch of all the distances. When you run that first 400 outside, your body breaking down, sweat running down all over you and thinking you're about to die: You pass that line and say "Ah f***! 1 lap to go!! This is bullshit!"

the430miler wrote:

skuj, what exactly was your time for the 600?? i run about 125

he shoulda just told you he ran 124 ya dipstick.

i'm just going to throw some random stuff out there and then tell you how good i do them just to be like "ha! beat that, bitch." you know, just like you did.

whats your bench? i bench about 270.

how many hotdogs can you eat in a minute? i can do 10.

whats your time for 10k? i run about 28:30.

you see where i'm going with this now, don't ya.

The "Bastard Bitch of ALLdistances": um, how about the marathon? that one hurts like no other.

Carly Simon wrote:

Be good, or be sorry!

Make me sorry. I don't think you can.

Bumping that thread in 1 min.....

u r wrong wrote:

Carly Simon wrote:

Be good, or be sorry!

Make me sorry. I don't think you can.

You are a moron.

Skuj wrote:

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But this is so hard though. Can you really "kick" off this? 600m is not really a sprint, and not a middle distance. It's unique. It's a Monster. The distance from Hell.

KSCPeck wrote:

No way, the 800m is the bastard bitch of all the distances. When you run that first 400 outside, your body breaking down, sweat running down all over you and thinking you're about to die: You pass that line and say "Ah f***! 1 lap to go!! This is bullshit!"

Or the 10k, when you cross the line, your body breaking down, sweat running down all over and thinking you are about to die and you say "well, only 10 laps to go!"

The 800 is hard but the point is not to destroy yourself in the first 400, which is what you make it sound like. Now, experienced 800 runners will say something like "hell yeah, one lap to go! Time to run down some chumps!"...while gritting their teeth, of course.

I think it works best to judge a race's difficulty by how hard it makes you want to shit your shorts when you're standing on the start line. Obviously many things such as the competition, your racing style, your expectations for the race, etc. have an effect on this, but it kinda gives you a way to compare different types of pain too. Because obviously there's not much worse than 550 to 650m into an 800, but 5k pain is almost as bad and it lasts forever more or less. So I figure whichever you look forward to experiencing the least is the one that's harder.

So for me while running an 800, I want to win, I want a fast time to go with it, and I've invested a lot in my training to get there, so I don't want to f*** it up. My strategy is pretty much to run the first lap as fast as I can while leaving just enough in the tank to finish the race. If I do that I know it's not going to be a fun second lap but if I don't, I'll be pissed at least until my next race. This means I'm not looking forward to my task when I'm standing at the start of an 800.

In a 5000 I know it's going to suck after like 8 laps, but who cares, it's a 5000, I'm just going to find someone I think will run as fast as I can run and sit on their ass and not really worry if it's going to be the perfect race for me in the end. It just doesn't scare me as much as an 800.

Based on the threads around here marathons seem to work people's nerves more than anything else and I can understand why, even if it's not my cup of tea. The shorts-shitting-o-meter says marathons are the toughest race.

As for the 600, I run one every few weeks to gauge where I'm at. I guess it's hard, but I just expect to tie up around 350m. I never get the combination of chest and leg pain like the 800 and up.

Carly Simon wrote:

Be good, or be sorry!

u r wrong wrote:

Make me sorry. I don't think you can.

Still waiting....

I run the 800m primarily.... the 800m is the easiest distance of all to run (outside of sprint events). It always strikes me as weird that LD guys think it is really tough and give half milers respect for it...

It's not hard!