Stupid runners

We didn't call them "runners" even though they ran around the track. They were football players. Dumb as mud.

I will offer myself, particularly while I am running. I mean, I know that oxygen is needed elsewhere, but sometimes I feel I must be close to having a stroke. For example, my "job" is as an accountant, but often, while running, it will take me an entire mile to figure out my previous mile's split. At the time, it doesn't even cross my mind as being strange, but afterwards (like now) how can I not accept that that is not an example of being as dumb as a dumbass.

Indoor track has to be the worst. People think its an easy sport just to get themselves in shape for another. They realize its not just running easy laps, complain, call it stupid, and quit. Makes me want to spike them

Why the slam on football players? I played in high school and college and ran track as well. I was a 100 meter guy because I had speed. I had (and have) nothing but respect for you endurance guys. Now that college is over, I'm moving to road races and getting the endurance down is a pain in the ass. In a lot of ways, this is a hell of a lot harder than football.

Uhmmmmm....WATCH LANE ONE!!! How many times have you see runners recover in the 1st lane? Just when I'm trying to save every little bit of oxygen I have left.

Anyone who runs with headphones on. Although it is entertaining to see them jump when you come flying by. No, it does not seem to help with the old "on your left" warning.

I've noticed that most girls teams do situps for a longer period of time than they run. The problem is, they don't do real situps, they do what I like to call "neck ups." Even if they did do situps correctly, they wouldn't benefit all that much. I find it amusing.

How bout' them stupid ass sprinters that wear distance spikes? We use to just love to rip on them during practice. Maybe they just wanted to be one of "US" and that was the only way they could. I dunno.

um, when your sprint spikes have no cushioning in the heel, but you have to do a workout in spikes, you have no choice but to wear distance spikes. I race in Nike Zoom Shift Sprint, but when I train in spikes I use a cheap pair of Adidas 800/1500 spikes with heels. Just trying to preserve our bodies.

however, I would offer that the antics of our national-class sprinters, are, to put it mildly, stupid.

Bill Carr-

Since when did sprinters run on their heels? So why do you need to wear a dist./mid-dist. spike for workouts? I'm talking about short sprints (100m, 200m). It irks me when these people don't even know what kind of shoes to wear. That is some high school crap.

It makes more sense for everyone with aims of running fast to wear sprinting spikes for fast work and races. If your body can't train in the shoes, chances are you can't race in them safely either. Yobes Ondieki wore sprinting spikes in his 10 km record. Sebastian Coe wore spikes with no heel. A low heel allows maximum energy return from the achilles. Of course you can't switch overnight but the benefits are noticeable.

Yes, I know that Maria Mutola wears no-heel spikes in her 800 races. However, keep in mind running on your toes is a fallacy. Everyone's heels touch the ground for at least a moment, even Tim Montgomery's in the 100. Thus, if you are doing intervals, you might want a little cushion. Yes, Lightfoot, I use my sprint spikes, obviously, when I am doing really fast work. But for something a little less speedy (for instance, if an interval was 400m at 57), I use heeled mid-distance spikes and my Achilles' thank me. Additionally, as you know us runners do not have limitless pockets and on sprint spikes there isn't all that much between your foot and the ground. Ergo, they don't last too long when you use them all the time. Ditto those wacky Nike Christmas tree ceramic spikes that are in the shoes. Heeled "training" spikes last much longer and can be worn in the sleet, snow, hail without worry. And BR is correct, that 100m guys would not wear heeled spikes often. However, you would be surprised how many intervals a 200/400m runner has to do. Please don't refer to my track knowledge as "crap."

Back to the subject - on Mr. White's topic, some female DID show up at the track last night, jogged a mile tops, and then did about 9000 ab drills. Yikes.

In high school, the fastest guy in the conference was known to lack a few bricks from his stack. He toed the line for a relay handoff next to me once and someone on his team yelled that he'd laced his spikes on the wrong feet. Too late to do anything about it he ran the leg like that (and still won).

I also saw a COLLEGIATE girl step out in front of the fast heat of Eastern Michigan indoor meet 400m a couple years ago. Took out 3 of 4 top guys (2 injured from it) and got herself beat up pretty bad.

To the original posters question I would have to say Jason........nuff said.

there was a femal sprinter on my college team that wore the zoom steeples for training and racing. come on, she ran the 100, in steeples, duh. I can just imagine her reasoning, "The have some holes, which make them lighter!" I also hate seeing sprinters racing in zoom countries. Get a clue.

Also, when sprinters are running intervals longer than 100m, a distance spike (or a shoe with a full-length spike plate) allows less rotational torsion than a traditional spike. This especially protects the left foot on high-speed corners. Even if you're doing 4-5 150s at sub-17 (flying start), the additional material between the ball of your foot and your heel takes a lot of torque off the foot.

In my experience, the only time sprinters wear their racing spikes is for block work and some Friday "fliers" to get a feel for the track.

yeah, but they wore sprinting shoes for these fast work out right, and for racing right. how does a sprinter justify buying distance shoes for sprint races?

How does a distance runner justify buying trainers?

That makes little to no sense. Why would a sprinter wear distance spikes for racing? They make sprinting spikes for sprint races, buy them. They make distance spikes for distance races, buy them. They make training shoes for traing, buy them. If you can't figure out that sprinting spikes are for sprinting and distance spikes are for distance racing, then you don't belong in college athletics. I'm not talking about the 400 or the 400 hurtles, mid distance shoes can work well there, and I'm not talking about wearing distance or mid distance spikes for sprint training, I'm talking about racing. Hell, cataloges even divide the shoes up for you by events. It's not rocket science.