Originally Posted by
CheGiantForLife
In running, there are 100 yard dash and marathons and everything in between.
Same with swim. Short distance and long distance.
Why are there no 100 yard dash professional sprint events ?
Why is all biking events an hours long slog?
What about the fast twitch folks??
Hang out at a velodrome. 1 km TTs, Sprints where all the action may be in the final 200 m. Kierin where the first three laps are spent jockeying for position behind a gradually speeding up motor bike, then it's two laps h*** for leather at very high speed. Points races - longer but lots of sprints for points. At the local track I used to watch races there was aguy who did the first three of those evenets with quads the size of my waist.
Same as running, if you want to see speed, don't hang out at marathons or cross country. Go watch track and field. Now sadly, it is more popular to demolish tracks for their real estate than build new ones. The days of this country being the equal of anyone on the track are long gone.