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.
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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 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.
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.
I always wanted to be a sprinter.
I don't have a sprinter's body.
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
As a scientist, I play in the top league - the Olympics, the World Championships - and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.
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.