born to run

When pre-season is about to start:

Okay guys I've really wanted to say this for a while now. As a sprinter who also runs cross country in the fall, I'd just like to point out how degrading it makes sprinters and field event kids feel when distance runners make fun of our workouts, or get upset when we complain. Yeah, we don't go out and run 40 miles a week, but we DO work hard. First of all, we're doing 6 400 repeats, under 70 every one for girls. We run our 200 repeats faster than you can run an all out 200. We do five times as much core and strength work as you (easily), and we have to work on coordination, hand-offs, block-starts, form, and a dozen other things to perfect our events on meet days. We are out there every day, just like all of you distance runners, and we work out butts off. Just because we don't run for as long as you doesn't mean we aren't as important to the team or don't care as much as you do. We are here for the same damn reason, so unless you can admit that judging anyone who isn't running mile on mile a day is wrong, you need to need to grow up and get over yourself. It's called track and FIELD. You have your own distance sport called cross country for a reason. Learn to accept that there's more than one kind of runner.

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