Assuming your physics don’t change along- same weight, same body fat etc and you improve your long distance shape running faster and faster times. In addition, you don’t do any specific top end speed workouts, just regular long distance speed workouts (400-300m intervals are the shorter)
Does your top end speed gets better and better along with the improving long distance shape? Or that your top end speed stays exactly the same? Would you run a 60m dash faster?
This is a claim I heard one guy saying, claiming that the elite runners speed is a product of their extreme shape. how ever I think it’s incorrect, and that those elite runners’ speed is to a large extent natural speed. And if they lost their long distance shape, they would still be very fast. By very fast I mean compare to amateur runners (amateur runners aren’t able to run 12-13 or even sub 12 for 100m (that’s elite long distance runner top speed).