It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
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I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
If you put me against most sprinters in the world, I reckon over a start I could get very close, if not take them.
I don't have a sprinter's body.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.