Is anyone else not interested in watching any women's track except the 100 and 200?

only race i watch is the 800 because of a certain british athlete for whom i have a huge crush on

Those are the two Women's events I don't watch. I'm not interested in sprinting because... you know why.

The 400 hurdles is riveting.

I like the sprints best, but I'll watch it all. I can appreciate some Valbymania. I like seeing ESP hang with some of the top international talent.

I agree because my attention span is less than 25 sconds.

Sprints are actually rubbish to watch live.

That's why they show endless replay so you can work out who actually won.

Best distances to watch are middle distance. Long enough to create some tension but not too long to be boring.

Surely most people on here were distance runners so more interested in there distance as well.

The women’s 800, Faith Kipyegon, and women’s marathon are the most interesting in running to me right now, including the men’s races.

I skip anything below the 800 in most meets because they're boring. I'll watch the 100, 200, 400 at championships, and if Bol, SML, Warholm, Benjamin, or dos Santos is racing the 400h I'll watch. Outside of that I feel like I don't get much out of watching a sprint race compared to just looking at a results page.

I like women's distance races, I think you just have to know some of the athletes in the race, or have some context. I think the same is true for guy's distance races, but as a guy, it's just easier to relate/contextualize what's going on. But I happily watched ESP win gold indoors, Hiltz and Mackay get silver/bronze, and Wiley go out before the finals. The women's top race at night of the 10ks was way better than the guy's race too. I watched Monson run 14:19 and that was a really good race. Coburn and Frierich's gold/silver in 2017 stands out in my mind. I thought Valby was a lot of fun to follow this last year or so, especially during XC when the Tuohy-Valby rivalry was still going.

I'm a bit more picky in what I watch, and I skip through the first few minutes of women's distance races more often, but you're missing out on a ton of great racing if you just skip all women over 200m. One of the highlights of last year was Hassan freaking winning the London Marathon against probably the most stacked field of all time. Also all the insane things she does like tripling at the Olympics, or medaling in the 1500 at Worlds and then going and winning the London Marathon. Also Kipyegon breaking the 1500/5k records last year and winning the double at Worlds. So many great moments you'd miss out on. Between Tsegay, Gidey, Kipyegon, and Hassan (who I think race each other pretty frequently), there are so many great races. I highly recommend starting to follow it a bit more.

1000% true. I don't think you can get excited about a sprinting race unless you have background for it. If you just showed someone who doesn't follow track the 100m race at Pre, I don't think there's much for them to enjoy other than "Wow they ran fast". Show them that Bowerman Mile though, and they can follow the storyline of Olympic champ vs World champ because the race is long enough for the announcers to say it, and Kerr makes his move pretty far out. Less than 4 minutes, long enough for tension to build, not long enough that you get bored waiting for something to happen.

You are bored. Ok. But the "rest" is not boring.

Plus the idea of being bored is hard to grasp. Even preachers' mindless rants can be fun to lampoon or dissect!

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No.

I find this year’s US women’s events to be more interesting than the men’s. There are a lot more variables and unknowns. Makes it a lot more exciting.

Even at NCAA champs, the women’s days were more entertaining this year than the men’s.

I mostly prefer the womens at the moment. The best women athletes race more frequently than the men and seem to race more consistently well, and I struggle to remember the top guys in the mens 5000m and 10000m right now, other than Jakob. The womens' just seems to be more competitive right now - most of the time outside Kipyegon, you have no idea out of 4 or 5 competitors who will actually win on the day.

For some reason, I find the sprint hurdles for both men and women particularly boring, although I like the 400m hurdles.

Nope.

Just you, babe.

Only thing worse is watching (or listening) to you.

Women's 400 seems stellar this year. Much more interesting than the 100 and 200, which seem to be in a holding pattern. The women always bring it in the middle and long distances. Kipyegon? We're lucky to be alive while she's doing her thing. 400 meter hurdles is gonna be great too.

I can take or leave the 100. It's over before you know what's going on, and then people start talking about the next one. Unless you're a sprint technique expert, you watch it cuz it's a big deal. The 200 is somewhat more interesting, but this year, the short sprints seem to be about whether various established athletes can re-create past glories.

Time for humans is finite. Why people sit down and watch 27 -30 mins of people going around and around and around an oval is so bizarre and insane. Once around, twice at most is enough.

Anything above 400 is a yawn and a waste of time and life's finite minutes. Except for the following conditions:

Athing Mu is running the 800

Faith Kipyegon is in the race.

The 100M has been and always will be the marquee event. It is the event that determines the world's fastest human.

It is why the price of tickets for the Olympics are the highest for the session that includes this event.

The sprints are the blue ribbon event of the Olympics.

The IOC knows this. Everyone knows this

Everyone except for the people on this board who failed at sprinting and had to take up the drudgery of distance running as a cheap stand stand in.