What's the hardest running event?

it has to be the quarter because your azz feels like it is going to fall off and your legs burn like hell. it sucks for a race that is so short, it has perhaps the most pain.

Now add 10 36" hurdles to that already burning 400 meters! Running steeple aggressively and correctly can also make you question your discipline to keep pushing the envelope.

ive ran from the 200 to the 5000 and goddammit the 400 hurts so much i swear i'll never run another one every time i run it. no race is more painful than that.

yes, the marathon is a bitch, but it's not a track event.

It's basically the longest sprint there is

I mean sure the 400 is tough, but if you're running all out, the last lap of a 10k should feel even tougher than an all out 400 (pain doesn't set in on the first hundred meters of a 400 and maybe not even the first 200 meters), plus you've got the 24th lap, the 23rd lap, the 22nd lap, etc... Not to mention you've got that much more time to think about how much pain you're feeling. I think the longer the tougher, in general.

the 800... that is one painful motha

Agreed, the 800 is the same as a 400, only twice as long and twice as painful. If you try to make a case for the 400, I can only assume you are a 100m runner who regards the quarter as "long". And you probably suck at it.

After the 800, I'd say steeple is next. It just looks hard.

ouch i'd have to agree 800's are painful.

Also, if you think the 4 is hardest you might be a long distance guy with no speed, and you probably suck at it.

My vote also goes for the 800. Look at runners faces for the last 200 meters.

I think you can make a claim that any event run "correctly" should hurt badly in the last 2-300 meters. I would go with the 800 though. The burning sensation that creeps up to your ass in the last 100 is almost unbearable.

Sounds like there's no steeplechasers here? Maybe its because the steeplechase is so hard that to prepare you would not piss around on message boards.

Don't give your opinion unless youve run the steeplechase ... hard that is ... - not soft like a sprint.

Regards

Bad (but gave it a go) steeplechaser.

I'm a 9:15 steepler and believe me, I waste a lot of times on message boards.

The steeple is real rough, that last lap is deadly. You have a bitch of a time getting your legs over that hurdle.

The 800 is really tough too though. I believe the 800 to be harder than the steeple. Than the 5k.

For exhaustion--any distance too far. For excrusiating pain--the 400 is the most painful.

The last two posts were simply "bullshit".

The 3k steeplechase is heaps harder!

Shit! If there was a 5k + streeplechase there would be fatalities in T&F!

If you run a steplechase you may feel "shit-hot!" after the first 4 laps but trust me, your abdominals will collapse for the last 3 + as you slow ridiculously and dream of being a woosey 400m sprinter.

PS: I think the 800 is just a relaxed sprint.

Way to overdramaticize things. It's not that bad. You aren't going to die. You'll pass out first.

ok, whats so tough about an 800!!!?>???

Rahh hah ha ha ???

Tell me.

... and leave off with the 5k OK! Its tougher than youre attempts I bet! Chump!

The longer the harder. Its a tradition.

How fast can you run the 800 and Steeple? Obviously if you have half way respectable times in either you would know why the 800 is so tough. The 800 is more than a relaxed sprint. The last 200 meters are absolutely killer. If you're running hard enough that is. This is more or less an opinion thing so I couldnt care less if you think the 800 is easy compared to the steeple. To each his own. Cheers.