Bolt (best short distance runner) vs Farah (best long distance runner)

Bolt (best short distance runner) vs Farah (best long distance runner)

Race: 600m.

Who would win?

bolt

Obviously Bolt.

Bolt obviously

what kind of answers did you expect OP?

Bolt would probably win up to 5k or even 10km distance, after that a more experience longer distance runner would win, e.g. Farah.

Bolt.

To make it more even try a 3200 or 5k. That would be more of an interesting match.

Didnt farah win the 10k in like 27mins? About 4:30 per mile?

OP here. Was just measuring how bad your intuition is, since the answer is most likely Farah.

Statistical study showed that they would probably draw at 550m. Bolt himself said he'd lose badly to Farah at the 1000m race. Biologically, 500m is aerobic territory, so Bolt would not be able to keep up.

Well Bolt has a 45 second 400m and Farah has a 50 second 400m with a rolling start. I'd say it's pretty safe to assume bolt would win a 600. I think 800 and up would start getting close though

haven't followed, might be

and I just realized how bad my own speed is 5km in 26 min... hold me brehs

>Bolt would probably win up to 5k

This guy is literally retarded. I can't facepalm hard enough.

You'd be surprised how much difference that extra 100 meters makes.

Just look at the body types of a 400m specialist and an 800m specialist.

Bolt would win anything below 1000m. He could get a huge distance between them and just slow down and still win.

At the inter school sporting events my university did, me and my training partner (sprints and jumps) beat all the long distance runners in the 800m. We just sprinted and maintained a 200m lead as best we could. By the end we won by around 10m

I was honestly suprised when I opened the thread. I knew that the average person who posts in Veeky Forums is a mouthbreathing troglodyte, but not even a single correct answer before this post. Damn.

tbqh, I don't follow the Olympics nor running events much, but 5k is usually considered where long distance begins.
I just like long runs at slower speeds, don't bother much with sprinting runs.

Farrah is obviously very fast and toptier athlete for 5k and 10k distances, but considering that Bolt is toptier too, I would assume him being able to excel well up to 5k distances.

kill yourself autist

it would be a close race either way

you're retarded

>I pretend I know what I'm talking about when in reality I know jack shit

Why don't you try a marathon? Sprint the first 20 miles then walk.

>I browse 4chins and comment on other comments in a baitthread about a hypothetical race between short distance runners and long distance runners

here, have a Pepe

Farah could sprint during the whole race while Bolt would quickly get winded out and lose.

Would still be interesting though.

>I look down at people for doing what I do

Holy crap, you know so little.

farah's sprint = usain's jog

I bet bolt would just try to merely keep pace with farah as long as possible then outsprint him at the end if he had it in him

>farah's sprint = usain's jog
So if usain ran 5k at a comfortable jog it would be equivalent to farah sprinting 5k?

Holy fuck. Farah won Olympic gold in the 5k in 2012 and will probably win it again this year. If Bolt could beat him in it...why doesn't he compete in the 5k too?

>hold me
Sorry, don't want to catch your cardio

If 3k isn't long distance presumably you can fucking sprint 3kilometers then, right?

Fucking retards ITT, even if you don't follow running and would have said Bolt over 800m, some of this shit in this thread is dumb.

>bolt would win a 5k
"no"

I never said "comfortable jog" retard

it would be a jog. farah can not sprint fast enough to make usain struggle. he would have to rely on tiring him out.

Van Niekerk/Rudisha

But at 600m, It's probably Farah. They would probably tie at around 500.

I'm sure Farah can hit ~35 kph (he has been able to go almost 30 kph average at the last lap of a 5k run).

The 12.9 100m of him is in bad condition and it doesn't seem like he's really trying, could probably get ~12 in optimal condition and some training,

So let's say he gets 12.3 100m time, 100m sprints from stand usually translate to about 85% of the time at top speed (i.e 10.45 100m with a running start).
So that would give us a 34.5 kph top speed, just like other athletes who don't specialize in sprinting (soccer players for example).

In T&F 800m is considered the spot between short distance and long distance, so let's say 1500m is long distance.
Farah would obliterate Bolt in 5k, and at 10k it would just get embarrassing, Bolt's rumored to run 10k at more than 42, a distance Farah runs in 26:46.
I think letting Bolt could run 6k tops when Mo finishes his 10k.

>Bolt reveals he rarely runs farther than one lap of the track. “I don’t really do any cardio in training,” he says, preferring to focus on quality over quantity. “It’s hot anyway in Jamaica, so we burn a lot of calories when training. Even just warming up I would be sweating hard.” Even so, his longest run is surprisingly short. “This season, probably 350m. A couple of times I have run 600m in the past, but that’s as far as I’ve ever been.”

>600m
>FUCKING RETARDS THEY TIE AT 500M

wow user you really got us

huh, interesting
as I said, I don't really follow events nor do I run sprints, the shortest distance I jog is usually 5km, with my average runs being between 10km to 21km
I have no clue what the top tier athletes do with their sprints

the idea of being able to outrun Bolt on long distance sounds quite fascinating
I always assumed that even sprinters do few km cardio runs

I guess that to maintain those kind of results you have to be extremely focused with your training

on that guys defense op clearly stated 600m

>farah's sprint = usain's jog
Farah's can sprint at 30kph, fuck off