Gatlin can run 45.xx for 400m for sure.
Gatlin can run 45.xx for 400m for sure.
Ex Jock Strap wrote:
It would probably be about 800 meters. But it could be about 600 as the previous poster suggested. Gatlin is huge for a sprinter and could be huffing and puffing and crawling down the stretch against Rupp, who would feel like a 800 race is warm to start up the system.
Lol 800m! Rupp would easily run 1:46 and Gatlin maybe 2:16
Rupp's speed's down right now, but in 3:50 mile shape, he has to be able to run sub 1:48. Gatlin'd have to lose about 50 lbs to take it at 800m.
aduck 67349224 wrote:
no matter pterodactiles
thank you
but I respectfully disagree, pterosaurs would totally change the race dynamic
college runner1743 wrote:
[quote]Cornerstone wrote:
[quote]lep wrote:
[quote]Ex Jock Strap wrote:
A marathon runner would absolutely smoke a sprinter over 800m, it wouldn't even be close - check out those decathlon carthorses.
^^^
no?do you not realize how easy say a 1:55 would be for a 44.xx sprinter assuming he does a least a minuscule amount of extensive tempo? or baylor? or literally anything that trains cardio.
let's say a 1:55 800m is roughly a 2:2x marathon (don't rip me apart i don't feel like looking up conversions)... seriously a good 100m guy with a bit of strength has a much better chance at beating a marathoner at an 800m..
I ran with several 46.x guys in college. One had trouble breaking 2:00. The other could run about 1:55.
The first was a larger framed 400 guy (more like Gatlin). The later was small framed and skinny.
Most 200/400 guys have trouble running a good 800. They blow up somewhere around 500-600. I don't see any reason to believe Gatlin would be any different. I think he'd have trouble breaking 1:57. Rupp can do that at the end of a 10k.
Answer: some where between 500-650.
Ex Jock Strap wrote:
It would probably be about 800 meters. But it could be about 600 as the previous poster suggested. Gatlin is huge for a sprinter and could be huffing and puffing and crawling down the stretch against Rupp, who would feel like a 800 race is warm to start up the system.
You're smoking crack.
635 meters
The two doping cheaters are even in the race to the pharmacy.
Bad Wigins wrote:
They are both going to win olympic gold medals and become American heroes, so the question will be asked sooner or later. What would be a fair distance for them to race at?
I'd say about 5-7 meters.
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