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>Marathon runners don't do an intense workout. It's an endurance sport and peak output is nowhere near what a sprinter does. It's easy to say that from the cou
by xiaoma 17y ago
>Marathon runners don't do an intense workout. It's an endurance sport and peak output is nowhere near what a sprinter does.
It's easy to say that from the couch.
Odds are overwhelming that both you, and 99% of the people commenting on this site are incapable of running a mile in under 5 minutes or even a single lap around a 400m track in 75 seconds. Top marathon runners average a higher speed than that for over 2 hours. Winners occasionally have a sub 4 minute mile within the race.
- Retric 17y agoA mile is still an endurance sport. There is a reason the world record for 200m is slower than twice 100m even though they both start from a dead stop and it takes several seconds to hit top speed. Edit: I dealt with limited lung capacity for a while, it can be vary obvious once you start needing a lot of oxygen really quickly. You can run fast from a dead stop, but distance and recovery time can become insane.
- xiaoma 17y agoActually the 100m and 200m records are about the same speed. It's 9.58 for the 100m and 19.19 for the 200m. And before this August when Bolt shattered his previous 100m record, the 200m record was significantly faster than the 100m. But in any case, both miles and marathons are incredibly intense workouts. In fact, from a physiological standpoint, middle distances are more intense than sprints. Less than 400m isn't even enough to push someone to their lactate threshold. Short sprints are run on the fuel already in the muscles. Obviously, it still takes intense training (and the right genes) to sprint well, though.