A. Hipster wrote:
Doubt it. I know a guy who was an above average D3 soccer player and could run a 48 sec 400. I'm sure that plenty of world class players can run faster than that.
Ah, the old "a guy I new ran X, therefore real athletes can run Y" anecdote. Maybe the guy you knew was in the wrong sport. I'm sorry, if he's running 48 with no specific event training (did he do it out of blocks?) in D3, he's wasting his talents on the soccer field. I'm curious: just what do you think Jeremy Wariner could run in the 400 if he only played soccer his whole life, without any specific track training?