💬 If you've ever been on a track team, you might agree. I think the 440 is the hardest race. Now, this is a relay...

[TerryP]

...but it doesn't change the fact it's the same distance. Man, I'm telling you. To have a "kick" like this in the last quarter...geez.

 

[OldPlayer]

Your age is showing. There is no 440 anymore. It’s the 400 meters. And the runner’s kick in the last quarter is the runner’s first quarter.

In the mixed 4x400 relay, it’s always interesting how they place the runners. Is the last leg anchored by a man or woman? In the last Olympics a lot of team put a male runner in the anchor leg. That team would be significantly behind a team anchored by a female and you watched as the male anchor caught, and then passed, the leader.

 

[TerryP]

There is no 440 anymore. It’s the 400 meters.

It's 440. I don't do that communist crap.

 

[UAgrad93]

300 intermediate hurdles are a bitch of a race to run!!

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

I tried out once. Didn't go well.

 

[UAgrad93]

I tried out once. Didn't go well.
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My HS football coach was also the track coach and he used to have us run distances (3,5, and even 10 miles) during the summer for football conditioning along with running intermediate hurdles. Everything was done for time. After a round of hurdles one evening, Coach tried to convince me to come run the hurdles for him during track season and that with my time, not only would I qualify for state, I might very well win state. Now I was a 3 sport guy (football, basketball, and baseball) and I was being recruited for football and baseball. I asked Coach if running hurdles would get me a scholarship and he said that it wouldn’t. I told him I would stick to my batting gloves and glove.

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

My HS football coach was also the track coach and he used to have us run distances (3,5, and even 10 miles) during the summer for football conditioning along with running intermediate hurdles. Everything was done for time. After a round of hurdles one evening, Coach tried to convince me to come run the hurdles for him during track season and that with my time, not only would I qualify for state, I might very well win state. Now I was a 3 sport guy (football, basketball, and baseball) and I was being recruited for football and baseball. I asked Coach if running hurdles would get me a scholarship and he said that it wouldn’t. I told him I would stick to my batting gloves and glove.

 

[footballer]

...but it doesn't change the fact it's the same distance. Man, I'm telling you. To have a "kick" like this in the last quarter...geez.

I agree, the 440 is the hardest sprint.
Great Leg.

 

[alabama mike]

Pure gut check all the way around the track.

 

[Rolltide24]

Bol is a legend and beautiful. But she’s got nothing on McLaughlin. In any category. Sydney is a freak of nature.