Oh sh*t, this thread shows that walkers are better athletes than runners. Now the walkers will start calling runners girly-boys and weak sisters. Oh, the shame!
Oh sh*t, this thread shows that walkers are better athletes than runners. Now the walkers will start calling runners girly-boys and weak sisters. Oh, the shame!
If you run for one minute at each mile mark, could you still say you walked a marathon?
Walkie Talkie wrote:
Oh sh*t, this thread shows that walkers are better athletes than runners. Now the walkers will start calling runners girly-boys and weak sisters. Oh, the shame!
No, it shows that they have different abilities and should be given some respect. Unlike the childish BS that usually goes on here, they respect the running population and just want the same in return.
Heres some hilarity for you...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EwhOqvb9hac
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SaDxC0YcdF8
And the best of all...
I watched tapes of K. Bekele in his faster races and he's up around 190 strides/min. He's relatively short, so i would expect this.
But then again, i've watched Viren closely in the tapes of his Munich wins. In his closing drives he not only lengthens his stride, but significantly increases his cadence. If i remember correctly, he's around 210 spm in the closing lap of the 5K and 10K, and peaks at about 215-20.
mjr wrote:
100m (10.0) = 300 strides/minute
200m (20.0) = 250 strides/minute
400m (45.0) = 200 strides/minute
Hugh Jarse wrote:
I'm confused. There's going to be a small difference due to there only being one start in each race, but thereafter how come the 200m guys are striding approx 2.4m and the 100m guys 2m? The 400m guys would be going 2.67m. Surely the 100m and 200m runners would be going 'approximately' the same distance per stride. Or are those figures made up?
mjr wrote:
The figures are averages based upon video studies of hundreds of races at those distances and performance levels.
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I call BS, 300, 250, 200, all are very arbitrary, and wildly inaccurate. Could you tell us your source? Plus your figure of 163 for the marathon (163) is way low. This all discredits the walking numbers, though I have no idea if they are correct or not.
Here are the NYC marathon leaders at ml 18 doing around 180 SPM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQ1zcGdZwg
Here's the 96 Olympic 100m final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52HEOF6cwk
Here's the 96 Olympic 200m final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9RnxtKrPc
Here's the 96 Olympic 400m final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2W_T77vwfQ
In the three above races we see about 42-46 strides per 100m for all athletes. A bit under 250 SPM seems par for the course, but to suggest that the 100m guys stride at a rate 20% faster than the 200m guys is to insult our intelligence.
Regards
Hugh
"A picture paints a thousand words."
I caught Donovan Baily at 44 strides in his roughly 10 second sprint … a cadence of 264 p/min. I've heard before that Michael Johnson could approach 300, but that wasn't demonstrated in his 200. It was a little obscure for the first 100 of his race, but i think you'll see that in the second 100 (which was covered in about 9 flat?) he hit 40 … so:
60 seconds / 9 = 6.666
6.666 x 40 = 266 … about what Bailey hit for the 100.
And i caught 1-2 of the marathoners approaching 190.
Thanks for the links to Youtube.