Henrik in Seattle

The art of lying

January 24th, 2006

Before [Ultimate practice->http://seattle.henko.net/2005/10/06/first-ultimate-frisbee-practice/], we have track practice. That basically means that before the normal two hours of practice, we spend an extra hour running on a running track. It is all but killing me, but I guess it's good for me. And also, we're running at the huge Husky Stadium (see image below), which is a cool feeling.

Anyway, today we were told to run 3 times 200 meters at 85% of our top speed, 3 times 400 at 75% and finally 2 times 100 at full speed. That we "only" have to run at 75% of top speed for the 400 meter races rather than full speed makes it sound reasonable, almost nice. I mean, after all, they don't make us run at top speed for 400 meters, but only 75%. However, it's really just a nice little lie. Why? Well, nobody (at least none of us at the team) can run 400 meters at their top speed! 75% of top speed is probably about as fast as any of us can run. So what they're actually saying is; always run as fast as you possibly can. But that sure doesn't sound as nice.

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