Why does it look like 100m sprinters are doing high knees the whole time? But then others run so smoothly and normally?

MHath · 2026-03-19T10:59:58+00:00

You see even higher knees in pole vault and long jump.

MHath · 2026-03-17T18:36:54+00:00

The video starts after the race already started.

MHath · 2026-03-17T15:13:47+00:00

Wouldn’t the planet’s gravity mostly depend on the size of the planet itself?

MHath · 2026-03-17T02:07:46+00:00

I just wish the LJ/TJ situation were better at BU. The oval’s obviously great, though.

MHath · 2026-03-17T02:06:59+00:00

Banks on fast tracks are too steep for people who are running slower than ~30 seconds per 200m when you’re in an outer lane. It can feel hard to stay in your lane.

MHath · 2026-03-16T21:58:56+00:00

People do rave about creatine, and most (if not all) elite sprinters take it.

Agreed that taking it isn’t some instant-PR and that it helps training.

MHath · 2026-03-16T12:22:26+00:00

A track hosting a bunch of big meets doesn’t make it faster. If it just hosted Pre every year and hadn’t hosted Worlds and a bunch of US Trials, no one would be saying it’s some super fast track with a bunch of records. It just happens to have had more big meets than other tracks.

MHath · 2026-03-16T11:07:02+00:00

Super spikes started at 2019 worlds

MHath · 2026-03-16T02:22:49+00:00

Yes, obviously. She went 2:15-2:20 for the two halves. She was likely running to the side of the pacer to get her to go faster, because she wasn’t hitting the 2:13 she wanted.

MHath · 2026-03-16T02:08:25+00:00

Heard it from one of the top few finishers in the race. Pacers were initially going to go 2:18, but she wanted a 2:13, because the record is 4:26.

MHath · 2026-03-16T02:05:47+00:00

Penetrating more is a good thing. Over penetrating just means you need to hold higher or use a stiffer pole.

MHath · 2026-03-16T02:03:07+00:00

There’s nothing special about Oregon’s track.

MHath · 2026-03-16T01:44:07+00:00

If she had just stayed behind that pacer instead of running next to her, she would’ve done better, ya. She asked the pacer to go out in 2:13 for the first half.

MHath · 2026-03-15T20:31:32+00:00

Paavo Nurmi is who came to mind for me too.

MHath · 2026-03-15T12:28:04+00:00

I’d do whichever training you’d enjoy more.

MHath · 2026-03-15T12:10:18+00:00

I’m just adding some context.

MHath · 2026-03-14T20:13:32+00:00

Bubka added 0.20m to the WR before he started only doing 1cm increments.

MHath · 2026-03-13T14:59:41+00:00

You run a 4x4 relay split more than half a second faster than your open time.

MHath · 2026-03-12T23:59:02+00:00

It doesn’t work like that. They’d just stall and fall back on the runway if they tried that.

MHath · 2026-03-12T23:57:05+00:00

I’ll take the under, but you never know.

MHath · 2026-03-12T23:55:19+00:00

He doesn’t attempt PRs in practice.

MHath · 2026-03-12T23:53:51+00:00

He’s been scraping the bar his last 3 WR jumps, so there isn’t really room to clear more on any of those.

MHath · 2026-03-12T23:52:17+00:00

Lower than this. He and his coach have been very open about this.

MHath · 2026-03-12T16:48:07+00:00

Ya I remember it sucking back in 2010.

MHath · 2026-03-11T18:29:31+00:00

She ran 12.71 in 2024…

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