New Olympic Event - The One Hour Run?

Great Idea with lots of possibilities! Let's make it a "Devil Take The Hindmost Race".

They could have two hour races too.

Interesting idea, what would you use for qualifying?

A friend of mine is a former US age-bracket recordholder for that event.

C'mon Orville...lets not get facetious. There is a new sport added to the Olympics every Olympics. The easiest thing to do is add an event to an already accepted sport.

So what would you add as a running event if you could choose? Changing the 1500 to the mile wouldn't be a bad idea! If you want to get real colorful, you could add the 200 meters run backwards! I saw such an event at the Pre several years ago and some guy ran it in 25 seconds...now theres a good one for ya!

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I don't remember it being run backwards, but run while juggling. It was called joggling. I'm serious too. I couldn't believe that the Prefontaine meet would take the Gong Show approach to promoting T&F.

I like the idea since it ought to put pressure on the runners to run as fast and hard as they can for the entire hour rather than the tactical races we end up seeing in the 10,000 where they run a pedestrian pace most of the way and it comes down the a kick in the final lap or two.

naa, but they should do a 10k XC race instead of the 10000m on the track, its just so boring for 9600m.

The world record in backward 200, or retro running is 33 seconds. It is actually fairly popular, so tried running a 400. It hurt worse than any race I have ever done and I fell twice.

I did a one hour run once - on a cinder track on a very hot day in June. There was about 40 people running. It was quite surreal as I was lapping people after only about 5-6minutes! I ran 17221.00m and felt very dizzy at the end.

It is an event that used to be held quite often - the UK record is a very respectable 20,855m by Carl Thackery - works out at approx two 28:45 10ks back to back.

I have run a Devil Take the Hindmost and have run several Hour runs. There is also such a thing as the two hour run.

In the 1960s and 70s, they had regional hour runs all over the country and then combined the results to determine the US and team champions. Only the weather and footing was different from track to track.

Back to the Olympics, I have attended 6 and I would not add or change anything now on the track and field schedule.

What are the rules for Devil Take the Hindmost?

Is this the one where the last person at the end of each lap is pulled from the race?

why wouldnt the hour run also be a sit and kick race? people would stay together or so until time is almost done, then sprint like crazy.

i agree with the guy above, i think it would be great to see a cross race in the olympics. that would be awsome.

Sure.a distance is set (like an A or B time qualifer) as a cut off and to score you must run that far,say equal or better than 20th fastest time of the year.That would tend to keep the pace fast.

I won a one-hour race once. I won even though everyone else in the race had the same time as me.

"I won a one-hour race once. I won even though everyone else in the race had the same time as me."

I had to laugh at that; classic. And

http://www.iaaf.org

has the world record listed for the one hour run.

An aside; does anyone know how to quote someone from a previous post by putting a line of text between two horizontal lines as I see so often? Do I need to insert rich text format into my posts or something?

I thought I remembered Jos Hermens owning that record. I know that Bill Rogers still has the American record at 12.77 miles. He set it (along with some other records along the way) back in 1977.

Okay, a little effort goes a long way. I found that Arturio Barrios has the hour record 13m 193 yds. He picked up the 20K along the way.

Didn't Barrios break Rodgers record as an USAian, I think he holds both the World Record as a Mex and a slightly slower time as US Citizen record holder?

So whats the significance of your handle

Pre841?

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