According to this website the Superstars Competition half-mile run record is 1:57.36 by professional soccer player Brian Budd in 1979. I find it difficult to imagine a professional soccer player running that fast without track training.
According to this website the Superstars Competition half-mile run record is 1:57.36 by professional soccer player Brian Budd in 1979. I find it difficult to imagine a professional soccer player running that fast without track training.
Adam C wrote:
According to this website the Superstars Competition half-mile run record is 1:57.36 by professional soccer player Brian Budd in 1979. I find it difficult to imagine a professional soccer player running that fast without track training.
http://www.thesuperstars.org/records.html
I once saw James Lofton ( a former wide receiver with the Packers) run 1:59 without track training, so I would think that is legit.
shows what crap runners are. I had a kid that went to high school with me that was a soccer player, we convinced him to come to winter workouts one time a week in january and he ended up running 4:24 (1600) by May.
Wow, Lofton must have had some series strength along with his speed. That's impressive.
Wow, that soccer guy must have had some serious talent then. I tried to find some video of Brian Budd running the 880 but didn't come up with anything.
I'm old enough to remember it happening. Yeah, he did a 1:57.
Do you remember if Budd was really pushing it running all out?
talked a junior year kid a few years ago to run track that played soccer pretty much all year around and half way through the season I moved him from the 400 up to the 800 cause I thought he could do well (he trained with the sprinters for about 4 weeks).....he ran a 1:58 the first time he ran the 800
well he WAS pro soccer player. lot of running and sprinting in soccer so right there some form of training, if unstructured. soccer players do tend to convert well to the middle distances and longer sprints as well, so 1:57 for a pro soccer player seems about right to me. you dont need track training as a soccer player to run that fast if your in the league he was in
What is so hard to believe about this? We're talking about soccer, a sport that is constant running for 90 minutes.
The last time I watched The Superstars Dave Allen (a triathle) crushed the field easily with a 2:04.
A 400m LSU guy from U-High about 10 years ago was soccer guy. With no formal training was right at 2:00 I think. With more specific training he ended up getting some sort of All-American title in the 400m for LSU...I am thinking relay team. I remember watching him run 200 repeats in the 23-24 range. One heck of a runner.
do you guys not understand that soccer players often have 2 practise a day at the elite levels, a conditioning practise. where they run, often even track repeat workouts. then a skills practise, saying a pro soccer player had no track training is stupid
A few things:
Did he run it on a track? There were a few years that they ran it on the roads and who knows the distance they actually ran.
James Lofton did have track training as an excellent sprinter and an even better long jumper.
Soccer players do not "run" for 90 minutes unless you consider the 5 miles they "supposedly" cover in a game (in 90 minutes) running.
A conditioned athlete can spend almost 2 minutes in the anaerobic energy system, so it does not take someone who is blessed with exceptional talent specific training to run 2:00 for 800 meters. My older brother, a baseball pitcher, ran 2:01 in HS PE class in Chuck Taylor's. He was motivated by a bragging track guy who was in the class.
Also, didn't Abdi run his first race off of virtually no training in mid-15's for 5k? People with superior natural talent can do things untrained the rest of us can't. I don't find 1:57 that hard to imagine for a soccer guy. Wasn't there a pretty fast Canadian miler a few years back (a redhead, big dude) who ran like 1:54 at 13 with minimal training?
"My older brother, a baseball pitcher, ran 2:01 in HS PE class in Chuck Taylor's."
-riiiiiiight.
just the facts wrote:
James Lofton did have track training as an excellent sprinter and an even better long jumper.
James Lofton was NCAA champion in the long jump at Stanford. He jumped 27 feet and ran 20.5. He said that he actually went into the NFL because of fear of a "pretty good" long jumper coming up named Carl Lewis.
Just another indication of how little people posting on this site actually know.
El Guerrouj and Maria Mutola both played soccer before switching to track. Soccer is like a long interval workout.
i've heard it all wrote:
"My older brother, a baseball pitcher, ran 2:01 in HS PE class in Chuck Taylor's."
-riiiiiiight.
I was 1:53 in HS and much faster in college so there is some genetic talent. If I was going to lie don't you think I could do better than 2:01. No, he wasn't EPOing, at least as far as I knew.
saw evander holyfield run about 2:02 on the superstars way back when.