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[Chief Mummwa]

It's definetly either the 400 or 800 as the hardest event to run. Although the 300 hurdles will get you pretty darn tired lol.

[slice slice baby]

Hurdles def in there too chief! Brutal.

Edited by 2slice2, 21 December 2006 - 01:06 AM.

[tigerball13]

I couldn't run hurdles worth a darn. I can jump them but it won't look pretty and it won't be fast.

[Chief Mummwa]

Not everyone could run the 110 hurdles perfectly like Ted Ginn Jr. could, but you can't afford to make a single mistake in them if you want to win them. That's why they're hard. The 300's are a little bit harder, not so much steps-wise, but endurance wise.

[ADog]

Was not a track guy ( baseball here) but I would have to think hurdles..100 or 300 would be toughest. Espercially for those like me...can't walk and chew gum!!!! To run AND jump Whew. If ran hurdles I would probably run INTO the hurdle not over...lol

[slice slice baby]

dog!

[PCLBVC_07]

The hardest event to run in my opinion is the 400 and the 4X400. Its just a dead out run for your life.

[Hovs5]

The hardest to me was always the 4x4. Everyone is watching, last event. Its everything you've got. It took everything out of me each time I ran it. Right up with the 400 is the 300m hurdles. The intensity in that race is amazing. I could barely stand the first time I finished, I was so winded.

[Runner07]

As a track athlete with a cross country habit, my vote for the hardest event in track is the 300 meter hurdles. I run the 200, 400 , 300 hurdles, and the 4x4, so this could be a product of my situation. A straight 300 dash isn't so bad; I have enough endurance from my 6 years of cross country to make it through. For me, the 400 meter dash is pure cocaine. I snort it up and surf the high.

However, once those torturous inventions are thrown in my path, my thighs turn to concrete and burn like an unscrupulous woman in the red light district. In any regular sprint, 400 included, your momentum is uninterrupted. The hurdles are simply spike strips. It takes years of training to reach a point where you can stride over the hurdle with momentum intact. For those poor souls who attempt the race without such training, the laughable distance of 300 meters turns to a seemingly never ending ordeal. You feel like Prometheus's step-brother, forced to race the same distance for eternity. After the 300 hurdle race, I'm a shell of my pre-meet self. Every ounce of energy, grit, and determination is sapped.

That is, until the call for the 4x4, when the adrenaline floods my synapses and I tear my fast twitch muscles once more. I've woken up the day after meets where I solely ran the 300 hurdles and I've felt like a Sumo-wrestler's girlfriend. No other race has tore my a proverbial new one quite like the 300 hurdles. I suggest you all try the race. It's a love affair, really.

Edited by Runner07, 29 January 2007 - 06:04 PM.

[slice slice baby]

Well that is one spicely, descriptive post there r07! Never ran the hurdles, but think I have an idea of what it might feel like. Nice first post.

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[DickieVBaby21]

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[tigerball13]

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Not in Versailles. All the other schools it seems.

[WONBulldog]

Ok, so I ran track back in Jr. High and HS. As my HS coach told me, I was one of the few people he could put in any event and expect me to be competitive...just not the best on the team at any event. My main events were the 800, 400, 4x800, and 4x400. In Jr. High I ran hurdles (110's and 200's) and the 400 and 4x400, mix or match to get my 3 events for the night. Slapped in high jump, pole vault, and discus on occasion at those meets that are all relays or whatever and you needed a combined clearing height or distance.

So, having participated in pretty much every event at some point, I have to go with the 300 m hurdles. Those things were HELL! I mean, c'mon, a dead sprint for 300 m with some 39 inch high bar in your way every 30 meters or so...I got put in that race anytime we needed to get some extra points in the meet because it was basically the least entered event. That last hurdle, if you are a guy and you don't kick it over, beware what "special stuff" may fail to clear due to lack of strength to jump one last time. Just to protect the manhood, I always kicked over the last two.

The 400 was pretty easy. I mean, it is a sprint. If you can't sprint it, then you might as well not expect to score. The 4x400 was always the most exciting race because "it ain't over 'til its over". The 4x800 was usually pretty spread out, in comparison, and was also the first event, as compared to the 4x4 being the last. The 800 is something of a strategy race, for sure. A lot of times my team would employ a "rabbit" in races 800 m and up and make sure they were in with the most competitive racer(s) from the other team(s). Just someone to start off fast and hopefully draw the competition into using their strength up early. I was amongst the very few that would run a faster second lap than first, which would screw over so many other people's strategies, if they employed them.

Roughest field event: Pole vaulting. The first time you do that is one helluva scary occasion, I swear.

That's my 2 cents...

[RedskinForever]

Ok, so I ran track back in Jr. High and HS. As my HS coach told me, I was one of the few people he could put in any event and expect me to be competitive...just not the best on the team at any event. My main events were the 800, 400, 4x800, and 4x400. In Jr. High I ran hurdles (110's and 200's) and the 400 and 4x400, mix or match to get my 3 events for the night. Slapped in high jump, pole vault, and discus on occasion at those meets that are all relays or whatever and you needed a combined clearing height or distance.

So, having participated in pretty much every event at some point, I have to go with the 300 m hurdles. Those things were HELL! I mean, c'mon, a dead sprint for 300 m with some 39 inch high bar in your way every 30 meters or so...I got put in that race anytime we needed to get some extra points in the meet because it was basically the least entered event. That last hurdle, if you are a guy and you don't kick it over, beware what "special stuff" may fail to clear due to lack of strength to jump one last time. Just to protect the manhood, I always kicked over the last two.

The 400 was pretty easy. I mean, it is a sprint. If you can't sprint it, then you might as well not expect to score. The 4x400 was always the most exciting race because "it ain't over 'til its over". The 4x800 was usually pretty spread out, in comparison, and was also the first event, as compared to the 4x4 being the last. The 800 is something of a strategy race, for sure. A lot of times my team would employ a "rabbit" in races 800 m and up and make sure they were in with the most competitive racer(s) from the other team(s). Just someone to start off fast and hopefully draw the competition into using their strength up early. I was amongst the very few that would run a faster second lap than first, which would screw over so many other people's strategies, if they employed them.

Roughest field event: Pole vaulting. The first time you do that is one helluva scary occasion, I swear.

That's my 2 cents...

Well i think you all have a good point saying those sprints are hard events to run. I would agree there but im going to have to say is the 1-mile. i say this even though I am a cross-country runner, but any more its a dead out sprint. Coz anymore you have to be a 400m runner to keep up with some of the guys who lead the mile because they put down 1:00min or under first lap and if your strides long and you can put your first lap under a minute, your done for, for the rest of the race. But good points all around.

[WONBulldog]

Well i think you all have a good point saying those sprints are hard events to run. I would agree there but im going to have to say is the 1-mile. i say this even though I am a cross-country runner, but any more its a dead out sprint. Coz anymore you have to be a 400m runner to keep up with some of the guys who lead the mile because they put down 1:00min or under first lap and if your strides long and you can put your first lap under a minute, your done for, for the rest of the race. But good points all around.

I never liked the mile (or the 2 mile, for that matter). I could run the dumb thing, but it is 4 laps and generally you know if you are out of it after 2 laps, so then you just become lazy when you know you aren't going to score any points. If you have another event coming up, you conserve some energy. Other times, you just run it to beat someone you don't like too much or as a matter of pride. In my case, it was always too close to the 4x800 or 800 for me to be able to get my energy back to run later races at full-strength so I seldom ran it during a meet. Only like 4 times. But I was a gym class superstar in it!

[Buck Weston]

300m Hurdles

[Jefferson Faithful]

My speacilty event is the 400 and 4x4...i will say they are the hardest to run i'm thinking about trying the 800 too. I will say the 300m hurdles is no walk in the park at all. those races are really just how bad do you want to win and when to know when to change speeds

[Demothenes]

for the hardest event(s), i would have to say first would be the mile, cuz its just a giant sprint, then the 800 cuz its the second longest sprint, and then the 300, just based off of previous posts, as i have never run the event

[Dr.G]

i would have to say that the 300m hurdles would be the hards vent to run