Seriously, what is the deal with this phenomenon? A lot of distance runners look at speedwork as an injury-inducer, whereas sprinters do speedwork almost exclusively and surprisingly do not die from it.
Is it that distance runners are afraid of peaking too soon that they shy away from speedwork so much? And are sprinters terrified that over-distance training will kill their speed (equally ridiculous)?
Thoughts?
I'm pretty sure sprinters are far more afraid of distance work than distance guys are afraid of speed work. But I can't really prove that statement, so I don't know what the point of saying it was.
I think sprinters are definitely afraid of distance runners. No doubt we are imposing figures.
Sprinters are way more afraid of distance runners.
Distance runners think that sprinters are gangsters and thugs who hoot and beat their chests. But sprinters think distance runners could be serial killers, you know, the quiet psycho type that will eat your spleen.
on every team i've been the distance runners look forward to speedwork- they think it breaks up the monotony of long overdistance.
sprinters always seem pissed whenever they have to run more than like 2 miles.
i'd say sprinters are much more afraid of distance runs
We aren't afraid of distance runs, just fail to see how they will help us in our events and therefore we consider them useless for sprint training.
We aren't afraid of distance runs, just fail to see how they will help us in our events and therefore we consider them useless for sprint training. How can running a slow 7 miles help me sprint a fast 100 meters? None of my sprint coaches has ever put distance work into my "in-season" sprint training.
You are comparing apples and oranges. Sprinting is an anaerobic sport. Why the hell would sprinters need to incorporate aerobic training into their system?
Long and middle distances require oxygen to perform. However, as oxygen is spent, their systems will demand anaerobic sustainability (near the end of their races). Some form of threshold training is necessary to cope with lactic acid build-up.
However, sprinters really don't need long runs. The only time they would need a "long run", would be to rinse their system of lactic acid, and that is based on how they feel. Long runs do not cater to a sprinters competition system.