Do people here really think the best elite distance runners can sprint 11 flat for 100m?

t94bell wrote:

Hypoxic Delirium wrote:

Random numbers.

Placed together

Just because an elite 10k runner like Rupp can run 12.5 4 times in a row is meaningless to say it would correspond to running anything significantly faster over 100 meters once.

He has World Class Speed for his event meaning 50.0 and 1:49.0 and probably barely sub 24 for the 200. He's an aerobic machine that can still hit close to those times after a 5000 or 10,000 at 4:20-30 mile pace. Doesn't meant he's going to improve a whole lot just by running a fresh sprint time. Get it?

No logical link between them.

This is a running forum, not a research lab. Those are estimates. Any runner with the most basic knowledge of elite times can make a reasonable deduction that these times are indeed possible. Are they 100% accurate? Most likely not, but definitely in the realm of possibility. Sharpen your critical thinking skills.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

wtfunny wrote:

11.5? Serious? .. any guy running 11.5 for 100m shouldn't be using the word "career" when referring to it.

Boy, some of you guys have descended to new lows.

Grow a pair. "new lows"? You consistently make unsupportable assertions about drug use by athletes who are tested over and over and over, ridiculous assertions about coverup at the highest levels of the sport to protect athletes, ridicule a world class athlete like Asafa Powell when he pulls up with an injury, and then whine like a child when someone points out (truthfully) that 11.5 is not part of anyone's "career"; I don't care whether your PB is 10.5 or 9.5 .... you run 11.5 and it's not making a house payment or putting food on your table.

Kip Litton has run 9.97.

Would a typical 4:20ish miler be able to achieve 11.5ish for the 100m with more weight training and sprinting on the side? I wanna try...

Meant to quote this, sryz guys

t94bell wrote:

Bekele did sub-11 for the last stretch in his 10K WR.

That last stretch, we call the finishing straight, and it's 80 meters long, and 80 meters is much shorter than 100 meters.

4 years late but this debate is always ongoing on the boards so here it is for you all. Letsrun, I give you Mark Carroll. At the ripe age of 34 and well past his prime ran an 11.17 FAT into a headwind in San Diego in 2006. A 3.50 miler, 7:30 3000m runner, 13:03 5000m and 2:10 marathoner.

http://www.all-athletics.com/node/45217