If the majority of your training is off the track, why should your event be on the track?

The mug is round, the jar is round, they should call it Roundtine.

ThatsGoldJerry wrote:

The mug is round, the jar is round, they should call it Roundtine.

The world is round too... run around it instead of a track.

If most of my studying is done outside of school, why have test in the classroom?

People are racing on the track to run fast times and compete against steep competition. If these guys were on the road, those who seek these thrills would be racing there.

Counter intuitive as it may seem but to run one's best on the track, a distance runner spends less than 25% of his training time there in track season.

- Because it's a standardised setting for races that can be compared across every country in the world.

- You can compare a track 5K in Australia with one in the USA with one in Senegal.

- If your 5K/10K is on a trail or in a field, that is less easy. They are not directly comparable.

- If you trained on the track 100% of the time you'd be more likely to get injured and you may become very bored.

- It is a surface designed to get the best times out of racing, not for training so much.

- People like racing on the track because their time is standardised.

track chick wrote:

- Because it's a standardised setting for races that can be compared across every country in the world.

- You can compare a track 5K in Australia with one in the USA with one in Senegal.

- If your 5K/10K is on a trail or in a field, that is less easy. They are not directly comparable.

- If you trained on the track 100% of the time you'd be more likely to get injured and you may become very bored.

- It is a surface designed to get the best times out of racing, not for training so much.

- People like racing on the track because their time is standardised.

They should call you the Standard Chick

where do astronauts do their training?

cheers.

The big question is, do you were a cotton shirt when you post here?

it's funny you should ask that because I do wear cotton a lot. in fact just yesterday I was chatting to some runners over lunch and we were talking about the supposed benefits of "technical" fabrics, and I'm afraid I just do not believe any of the claims made for what these fabrics can supposedly do.

and, of course, I do make my own shirts, as well as t-shirts and other clothes items and all the ones I make are made from natural fabrics; cotton, linen, and wool.

cheers.

You should invent a new 4% t shirt. You could make lots of money. I will inVEST in you hehe.