I've actually been in a meet where the common start/finish line was in the middle of the straight. I guess they thought it was more fan friendly to have it that way for the stands.
I've actually been in a meet where the common start/finish line was in the middle of the straight. I guess they thought it was more fan friendly to have it that way for the stands.
One of my coaches was in the opening scene of Slackers, which I remember as being an awful attempt at depicting an XC race. Anyone remember the details?
"The Long Run" -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218411/
The woman who, supposedly wins Comrades looks like she is jogging the whole way and stops to talk/complain several times.
Here's a Youtube clip of the trailer even though it doesn't show her running the race much:
How about the old Disney movie, "The World's Greatest Athlete"! Tim Conway plays a down-on-his-luck coach who travels to Africa, where he meets a guy who has lived his whole life in the jungle (or something like that). For some reason this is a white guy (played by Jan-Michael Vincent). When we first meet "Nanu" we see him outrunning a cheetah, implying that he could easily run 100m in about 4 seconds, or perhaps (with some endurance training?) a sub-20 second 400. Later there is a track meet scene (meant to be comical) where Nanu does every event back-to-back-to-back, although all the races look like 400s.
In The Bourne Identity, I recall Matt Damon telling the girl, he knows he can run flat out for two minutes at the altitude where they were at that moment. He didn't mention how far he would get. They were somewhere in the mountains between Germany and France, I think. He does some beach running in the second Bourne movie. Not bad, as I remember.
The Long Run was the worst performance I'd ever seen. The lead actress ran like she was pregnant.
they are running around that bend in lane 3. seriously. the most lame thing ive ever seen
Old Ultra Guy wrote:
In The Bourne Identity, I recall Matt Damon telling the girl, he knows he can run flat out for two minutes at the altitude where they were at that moment. He didn't mention how far he would get. They were somewhere in the mountains between Germany and France, I think. He does some beach running in the second Bourne movie. Not bad, as I remember.
Yeah, he says he can run flat out for a half mile at that altitude before his hands start shaking. Then he sprints down a beach with his mouth closed to make it appear effortless.
Malamute wrote:
I am struggling to think of other movies with actual track / road times involved. In the Ringer, Johnny Knoxville's character says he ran something like a 2:07 800m in high school - seems realistic at least.
But then when they're doing the shot put, they include this dramatic scene where Knoxville's shot hits the ground just shy of the leader's mark, then rolls past it - KNOXVILLE WINS!!!!!!!!
The running scene in Invincible (2006).
Vince Papale has his first day of NFL practice the following day so he has to get in shape. He sprints around the neighborhood full speed. He returns home exhausted but finds the strength to go back out and sprint around the neighborhood some more. The scene was supposed to convey his toughness. I remembered thinking that is a really good way to tire yourself out before the first day of practice.
Billie (1965) Patty Duke
Billie is a teenager who, with the help of rock 'n roll music, can outrun every boy on the high school track team much to the dismay of her politically motivated father.
ph wrote:
to the dude who mentioned Across the Tracks with Pitt and Schroeder. I agree that movie was terrible. The thing I loved the most was how they started all their races in the middle of the straightaway. So after making their final turn, they run 50 meters and done.
My dad ran in college (graduated in 1976) in upper NY and he said that it was not uncommon for the 440yd hurdles back then to start and end in the middle of a straightaway. so there is some basis to that.
That scene from Prefontaine always p*ssed me off. They're racing the 5000m in lane 6!??!?! So corny.
There is some god awful commercial these days (allergy meds?)where the girl runs in a cross country race. Looks like a model that had never run a step in her life before she got this gig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4xlYKAVCQ` wrote:
One of my coaches was in the opening scene of Slackers, which I remember as being an awful attempt at depicting an XC race. Anyone remember the details?
C/M Runner wrote:
ph wrote:to the dude who mentioned Across the Tracks with Pitt and Schroeder. I agree that movie was terrible. The thing I loved the most was how they started all their races in the middle of the straightaway. So after making their final turn, they run 50 meters and done.
My dad ran in college (graduated in 1976) in upper NY and he said that it was not uncommon for the 440yd hurdles back then to start and end in the middle of a straightaway. so there is some basis to that.
I graduated high school only 12 years ago and my track was still like this. We had a cinder track. Every school we competed at had nice all-weather surfaces, but we would host about one small dual meet per season. I remember coming off of the final turn in the 400m and it's like the finish line just jumps out at you.
There was a TV movie about Ellen Hart Pena in which she was played by Crystal Bernard (Bernhard), who was clearly no kind of runner at all.
smoozer wrote:
I graduated high school only 12 years ago and my track was still like this. We had a cinder track. Every school we competed at had nice all-weather surfaces, but we would host about one small dual meet per season. I remember coming off of the final turn in the 400m and it's like the finish line just jumps out at you.
Is your high school track STILL like that?
Um, what about when Benny the Jet Rodriguez runs from the Beast in the sandlot all throughout town. on his way back he's able to yell to everyone to go back to the sandlot without sounding tired at all. then he just does that ridiculously unnecessary flip from the top of the fence onto his back.
I hate you people! LOL!
This thread lured me into watching, "Chasing a Dream," on youtube and I'm beyond angry about succumbing.
It was terrible...and mostly insulting. The final race, among high school students, on a dusty track, in clunky crosstrainers, clocking 3:59 after only a few months of training is beyond laughable...just frickin' stupid.
The icing on the cake, for me, was when the mother presents a pair of lightweight spikes and instead of trying them on for fit, he just leaves them on the bench and races in those stupid boats. I suppose since they were his friend's pair and he could presumably know they wouldn't fit, but by then, at a 4 flat level himself, he would certainly have the sense to be running in something like that anyway.
I'm just disgusted, please remove me from this thread...hehehehe.