For a long time I didn’t like watching the 100 meter race. It’s over so quickly and a lot of the time I could never tell who won until they did they slow motion replay.
But now I like it. Because the strategy is simple and so fundamental…go as fast as you possibly can. At no point should you be trying to do anything else other than going all out. It’s freeing.
The strategy has diminishing returns when you start using it for the 400 meters or the mile race. But sprinting is the perfect strategy when you only have to go 100 meters.
I think there’s something to this for the rest of us non-track runners. A lot of the time our goals are akin to a long race…lots of methodical strategy, diagraming a plan, pacing, breathing techniques.
But I think sometimes the chance for a sprint pops up and we’re so used to our brain-game-strategies that we don’t notice the wonderful opportunity to just GO. To forget about the million layers of strategy and replace them with pure speed.
