The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
i think sprinters have it harder when it comes to competition at the high school level. there's more fast or varsity level sprinters than there are distance runners from what I've seen.
Distance runners play soccer too. And sprinters imo are better suited to multiple sports as they require being well-built explosive and fast. But this is a distance board and starting junk like this is meaningless here.
I see basketball, politics, sex, movies, football, music talked about here so how is this a distance board?
Sprinters are born with speed. They are the kid from elementary school who could out run everyone else. I coached high school track, and sprinters are the world's laziest people. They hate to train, and always whine and complain. 90% of the sprinters are washed up after high school. The 10% that do compete in college in track or other sports, are washed up soon after. Speed leaves and the weight comes on. Meanwhile those "skinny" runners are still going... In their 30's, 40's 50's, 60's+
They run by the bars, the same bars the former sprinters are now sitting, telling everyone how great they were.
Fair Hooker wrote:
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
This is 100% true. Many sprinters don't improve after high school but reverse isn't true for distance. Even a state champion miler (4:15) is a complete noobie in college. While a 10.6 sprinter can be an immediate impact athlete on a d1 team.
Many of the distance/XC runners on my team do soccer. The star soccer player at my school runs the 800 and XC.
Fair Hooker wrote:
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
Join the chess team, watch porn in their parents basement....that's about it because girls don't like skinny nerds.
Cheserek, began as a footballer (soccer), I assume he's quite good
Grant Fischer played football to a pretty high level.
Mo Farah football as well.
I think most good distance runners do a sport before as they need the raw speed to be able to not burn out at a 5 minute mile.
However, sprinters can just train purely for speed.
Speed is much harder to attain than endurance
Distance!! wrote:
Cheserek, began as a footballer (soccer), I assume he's quite good
Grant Fischer played football to a pretty high level.
Mo Farah football as well.
I think most good distance runners do a sport before as they need the raw speed to be able to not burn out at a 5 minute mile.
However, sprinters can just train purely for speed.
Fair Hooker wrote:
The thing with sprinters is most of them can fo do other things like football, basketball, baseball, soccer. What can skinny little distance runners do besides run?
Graduate college with a degree that will land them a good job. They can run businesses, become doctors or lawyers, and make money outside of athletics.
99ninety wrote:
Sprinters are born with speed. They are the kid from elementary school who could out run everyone else. I coached high school track, and sprinters are the world's laziest people. They hate to train, and always whine and complain. 90% of the sprinters are washed up after high school. The 10% that do compete in college in track or other sports, are washed up soon after. Speed leaves and the weight comes on. Meanwhile those "skinny" runners are still going... In their 30's, 40's 50's, 60's+
They run by the bars, the same bars the former sprinters are now sitting, telling everyone how great they were.
I'm a distance runner but I was that elementary kid that was faster sprinting than everyone else. I'm sure lost of other great distance runners were too but could also "run forever" in soccer and basketball and eventually discovered that they were better at longer distances.
99ninety wrote:
Sprinters are born with speed. They are the kid from elementary school who could out run everyone else. I coached high school track, and sprinters are the world's laziest people. They hate to train, and always whine and complain. 90% of the sprinters are washed up after high school. The 10% that do compete in college in track or other sports, are washed up soon after. Speed leaves and the weight comes on. Meanwhile those "skinny" runners are still going... In their 30's, 40's 50's, 60's+
They run by the bars, the same bars the former sprinters are now sitting, telling everyone how great they were.
So true.
One of my friend who is a pretty good soccer player once ran a 32 mins 10k, he's not skinny, though.
In my experience sprinters are generally better prepared for an enjoyable life post sport.
The reason is they have a much more laid back personality coupled with desirable body shape so are more likely to attract fun and cool people for their friend/support group.
Definitely would agree that distance runners have a more "grind" attitude so can demand larger incomes but tend to be more unhappy nuerotics in high paying but stressful professional positions.
I'll take door A thank you!
tjds wrote:
i think sprinters have it harder when it comes to competition at the high school level. there's more fast or varsity level sprinters than there are distance runners from what I've seen.
i'm on board with this statement
So how come we have seen far more great USA sprnters than distance runners?
I could rattle off 100 sprinters who played pro football.
Sprinters and distance runners all have our own strength could we live in harmony. At the end of the day we both love track and to compete. No need for a thread like this. I do agree with the statement that there are more elite sprinters in high school than distance runners but this because many sprinters don't improve in college since speed is much harder to work on unlike aerobic capacity.
Sprinters who earn a scholarship to a college are just as apt to progress as any distance runner in the same situation.
Yes, we do see a lot more HS sprinters without the talent to move on than we do distance runners. Speed is a blessing for some, while everyone has to work at distant running.
The kind of threads we don't need are those telling personal stuff nobody cares about.