Bolt has to be able to run a very, very fast mile. He's already clocking sub 20 200's.
He could jog 13 second 100m now and it would feel like a walk in the park. Surely he could do that 16 times and run a very nice 1600. Throw in a little lactic acid training and he would be a force to reckon with in a mile.
Can we just delete this thread now??
Don't be so bitter Powell. No one is comparing him to you, because we know he is in a far better league.
Yep, it's that easy. But Bolt is one of the top dogs in the 100/200, so what's the incentive? Take one of the "also-rans" like say, Jon Capel, instead. Jon Capel can run 20-mid right now in the 200m. A 27 second 200 would feel like slow motion to a guy like Capel. And surely he could string 7.5 of those together which would give him a 3:22 in the 1500. He could instantly go from being a has-been to a dominator like the running world has never seen. How has no one else thought of this?!
i kinda like running wrote:
Yep, it's that easy. But Bolt is one of the top dogs in the 100/200, so what's the incentive? Take one of the "also-rans" like say, Jon Capel, instead. Jon Capel can run 20-mid right now in the 200m. A 27 second 200 would feel like slow motion to a guy like Capel. And surely he could string 7.5 of those together which would give him a 3:22 in the 1500. He could instantly go from being a has-been to a dominator like the running world has never seen. How has no one else thought of this?!
Hey, we think alike!!!
They just need to train some and they'd be awesome!!!!
You make a good point. Everyone always thinks Wariner would be the best 800 meter runner of all time, but he isn't nearly as fast as Bolt. My projections show that Bolt has the potential to be a 1:33.9 800 runner. Since he's a "fast twitch" guy, he'd lose a little speed as the distance goes up, but he could still run a 3:34 mile, 12:18 5000 and 25:57 10000. Beyond 10 miles and he is no longer world class. His sweet spot is definitely 100 meters to 10000 meters.
Why not just say, "If Bolt trained he could be the first to break 2 hrs in the marathon...!?!?!"
I agree with the 2nd poster; i.e., delete this thread!
PS - Isn't Carl Lewis's 800PR like 2:30? hmmmm, why is that?
because he never ever raced it? Guarantee he could go sub 2:00 if he even slightly tried
absolutely not.
doubt wariner could break 150.
even if they are physically capable of running faster, mentally, they are not. they don't know how to deal with that kind of pain. even the 800, which seems like nothing, would be hell for these guys.
i hope this thread is a joke designed to get people who know anything about distance running worked up.
In college, occasionally the long sprinters would join in our (3-4) x 4 x 400m workouts. We would generally do a 100m jog recovery and the sprinters would do every other, or every third one, for about 6 total. One workout was in October or early November and I was not running XC at the time. The two best long sprinters joined us and managed to keep up doing roughly 70s per repeat, although not doing as many repeats and with longer rest. That season I would notch impressive marks of 4:23 for the mile and 8:40 for 3000m, while one of the sprinters would get Olympic medals in the 400m dash and 1600m relay. Running a 55s lap would've been really easy for him, but I never saw him run faster than 1:52 or 1:53 for an 800m time trial, let alone being able to hold pace for a WR mile. I'm just sayin'.
"He could jog 13 second 100m now and it would feel like a walk in the park. Surely he could do that 16 times and run a very nice 1600."
Good point! I think Bolt's coach probably realized this, which is why he was pushing Bolt to run the 400. But maybe it didn't occur to him that longer events are even slower.
It wouldn't surprise me if Bolt is just biding his time, trying to win a gold in the fastest and thus hardest races while he's still in peak form.
Bolt also has a bit of a dilemma. Once other sprinters see how easy it is for him to dominate the distance races, a lot of them will move up too and it won't be such a walk in the park for Bolt anymore. So I expect that Bolt will wait until just before the London Olympics, and qualify for the mile, 5k and 10k at the last possible second. Then he will win triple gold!
I can see the 10k now.
Bolt has established himself in the prelims as a force to be reckoned with. So there's no way the final will be tactical, as the field knows Bolt can close the last 200 in (2 x 9.72 = ) 19.44 seconds. So Bekele is reeling of 63 second laps, and Bolt is yawning - that's 31 second 200s!
Bolt doesn't have much experience with distance races, so when he hears the bell he casually pulls up beside Bekele as asks him what the bell means. The near-immortal Bekele grimaces (they're on world record pace) and, incredibly, manages to accelerate. Bolt, jogging alongside, catches on that they must be almost finished already, and throws in a (4 x 9.72 = ) 38.88 final lap.
I think he should go all the way up to ultra, and kick Deano´s ass!
bolt definitely has the potential to be the greastest runner this world has ever known... he will one day own all wr! anyone wanna bet on this?
He's a sprinter. That's the end of it. Its not his physical abilities but his mental ones. He is running 1's and 2's so he doesn't have to run any 400's. Anything more than a lap and he might die...plus he needs a frick'n distance base. Potential doesn't mean instant success. That's what's so great about distance races.
2/10
Bolt could break 44 ANY TIME HE REALLY WANTS TO.Doubt he could break 2.00 in 800 , as for mile, 4.45 AT BEST!
runhrd wrote:
PS - Isn\'t Carl Lewis\'s 800PR like 2:30? hmmmm, why is that?
Probably because he has AIDS.
crafty competitor wrote:
I can see the 10k now.
Bolt don't run no 10K.