I find it hard to believe that someone who is running can't find an all-comers race to enter. There are at least dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of these in California during the summer, We have them every week on the same track that John Smith/HSI trains on.
But at least don't lie to yourself:
Freelap
Sprint Timer (for iPhone)
coach d wrote:
I find it hard to believe that someone who is running can't find an all-comers race to enter. There are at least dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of these in California during the summer, We have them every week on the same track that John Smith/HSI trains on.
But at least don't lie to yourself:
Freelap
Sprint Timer (for iPhone)
California is California. There were NO summer all-comers options where I used to live, same with probably 90% of the country.
'but last week I got 12.8ish for my last 100m stride after a 4-mile run'
Surely if you can do 12.8ish for a 100m stride, sub 12 should be easy
Was it 100m ish
Soooo...this never happened.
This is hilarious.
Oaklandia wrote:
This is hilarious.
Yes. Possibly one of the better trolls on Letsrun? Another marginal dream denied? Or, the shame of a plus-12 second race has embarrassed our OP? Oh, the anti-climax.
He may just be busy/still training and looking for a meet. In some areas it's very hard to find open meets
Go Quest Young Man wrote:
Oaklandia wrote:This is hilarious.
Yes. Possibly one of the better trolls on Letsrun? Another marginal dream denied? Or, the shame of a plus-12 second race has embarrassed our OP? Oh, the anti-climax.
Perhaps all of the above! Once again, a distance runner's dream has been sadly thwarted. Oh, the humanity!
Here is the thread that you were previously asking about.
If you have Freelap you don't even need a race to know how fast you are. The watch has a countdown timer: When it hits start, you go, and when you pass the antenna, the counting stops and you have a FAT result. You can get additional antennas for flys, and there is also a touch release start like the NFL sort of uses. You can easily take to any track it in your equipment bag, and I carry mine on airplanes (passes the xray scans with never a problem).
There's no excuse for not knowing how fast you are.
If Rudisha ran sub 24 for the first 200m in London, doesn't that mean that he must have run 100m in 12s or less?
Arithmetically Challenged wrote:
If Rudisha ran sub 24 for the first 200m in London, doesn't that mean that he must have run 100m in 12s or less?
1. He didn't run sub-24 for the first 200m
2. Even if he did, no that does not imply he could run sub-12 for 100
3. No one said he couldn't run sub-12 for 100
I think you are pretty late to that conversation
Asafa Powell found an all-comers to run in (9.87!):
ASAFA FRIGGIN POWELL IN AN ALL COMERS MEET
LOL
Seriously though, what was he doing here, and why weren't more people star struck by the appearance of The Asafa Powell.
It was a "training run."
A 9.87 TRAINING RUN!!!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140825/sports/sports91.html
We'll see what it was worth in Rieti.
coach d wrote:
It was a "training run."
A 9.87 TRAINING RUN!!!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140825/sports/sports91.htmlWe'll see what it was worth in Rieti.
Supposedly he was pulling a 50 lb sled as well, and did power hills later that afternoon. All in all it was a pretty moderate training day for the Jamaican. :)
Greetings one and all!
Hey OP, what happened? Fun thread. Agreed it can be hard to find a FAT meet, even impossible depending on where you are. Where I am there is only a handful, and they are all early. I heard that this year they even canceled a couple, because the track was being resurfaced. Nothing going on now.
But seriously, what happened? I hope this wasn't a troll.
re: Powell, we get to see him first in Zagreb then Rieti. His Zurich race was only OK, he probably needed to get rid of the jet lag. With that kind of first half, a 9.87 (+1.6) is certainly possible, all he needs is some SE. I was shocked to see how decent his first 30-35m were. He needs that late acceleration again to plumb the depths of 9.7 again, though, in addition to SE. I would love to see him against Gatlin in Rieti!
BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP
I am seriously happy to have Sprintgeezer back on the boards.
It's fun to be back. Even though this year's list is once again topped by Americans and Jamaicans, the Brits are showing good development.
Plus, the juniors are exciting once again, especially the Jamaicans and the Americans. Out of them all, I like Friday, he sets up lots of "Who's on first?" scenarios:
"This week we will have Friday racing on Wednesday."
"Friday's race will be shown on Thursday."
Seriously, I like his size, maybe Lewis 2.0? Maybe he's in a sweet spot.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
But seriously, what happened? I hope this wasn't a troll.
"word." has posted quite a bit on LetsRun, and was usually responsive. It's weird for him to be gone this long and I'm sure he'll be back. Maybe he just got back to school or something. But I'm pretty confident it wasn't a troll as he's talked about this in other threads too.