Running an 8k on pure hate [serious]

Because xc runners are typically beta males, they normally run 8ks on pure angst. The mid distance 800m runner is a fine tuned war machine, designed to withstand high intensity combat while maintaining a staggering output of power for a few minutes at a time. Meanwhile, the xc runner is a direct descendant of the primordial "peeping tom". Creeping in the forests and bushes, trying to get a glimse at the female gender bathing. When caught, the males of the tribe would attempt to chase down these skinny, malnourished, mate-less filth to no avail. They had evolved to run and jump through the woods for miles at a time to avoid any sort or altercation. Never putting out too much power but maintaining a timid and listless amount for hours at a time.

The 8k can only be run on pure fear and intimidation from your superior male counterparts.

Autonomous Rickshaw wrote:

I am an 800 runner who is going to be running an 8k this weekend and was curious if it was possible to run an 8k on pure hate just like my 800's? The only foreseeable problem is in my eyes that I don't have that much hate in my system. I might be able to hate something for 1200m MAYBE 1600m, but to ask me to be fueled by hate for 5 miles is asking a lot. Do normal distance runners run on pure hate the first mile, fade to running on pure irritation from miles 1-4.5, then use all the hate they have left for the final 800? Or are distance runners just more hateful and spiteful than 800 guys?

It can be done. Have one of your teammates bring the chick who just dumped you to watch the race.

True story.

That is brilliant prose 10/10

POD

The only way to run an 8k is on pure lust. Woof

this "pure hate" idea has not aged very well now has it? embarrassing - to say the least.