Could you run for 30 seconds at full speed without being exhausted afterwards?

With the right trainers, I could run for 30s flat out yes. Exhausted? I'd probably throw up and fall over.. maybe die. Depends what you mean by full speed though....
 
Mint_Sauce said:
I don't know about running max for 30 seconds but I am able to run over 2.5 miles at a pace of about 10:13 (average for whole distance) on trails. Literally almost exactly a month ago I couldn't even run/jog comfortably for 40 seconds at a time!

I've run every other day since then and used the C25K program (you can get even get it on your iPhone) and today I completed my first 25 minute non stop run! Granted, I found it fairly hard as I was trying to maintain my pace (wanted to hit 10:00) but still, I was chuffed! :D

This is coming from someone who did virtually no exercise as well! Am chuffed and thought I'd share. Running is great when you get in to it.
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Well done mate! It's a good story, amazing how with a little regular training you can go from virtually not being able to run to being able to sustain for a few miles.

I've been coaching a friend of mine for the last year, when we started she couldn't run for 3 minutes. After several months of almost nothing but intervals, gradually getting longer she did a 5k fun run and then a few months ago a 10k road race. Next month she's doing a half marathon.

Running is something pretty much anyone can do and improvements are quick and very rewarding. I'd recommend running - aiming to enter a 10k race - to anyone.
 
I run to the third floor at work a few times a day.. used to be really tired afterwards now not so much.
 
If by maxed out you mean, as fast as you can physically run, then surely people here could do 400m flat out? Obviously you would slow down, but it would still be flat out.

Reminds me of how Daniel Caine used to run the 400m for Team GB.
 
ghost101 said:
Ditto. Michael Johnson also holds the 300m world record at 30.85 seconds which is 9.72m/s done at high altitude. http://www.iaaf.org/GP08/news/kind=100/newsid=45271.html The artcile refers to Wariner attempting to break the record. Not sure if he did.

Also say it takes 20m to get to full speed for 100m, I suspect there is a decline in peak speed from 100m to 200m.
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yes, you start off at 0m/s the average speed of the 100metres includes the slow bit, realistically the 200m/s takes as long again so certainly not able to hit the same speed as the 100m then simply continue.

However, in a 200metre race i wouldn't say you hit your peak speed and slow down towards the end, a great runner is paced well to simply accelerate a little slower and not peak in speed till later in the race.

Just thinking about it, i've never seen any athletics shows really get into it in all that time they ramble on before big races. You'd think someone somewhere would get a 200metre straight track and have the same runner run his perfect 100m, then his perfect 200m, and ghost the images over.
 
I understand what the OP means, proparly. Altough I am rubbish at sprinting!

Knackered after we do sprints, but that is normally after a few of them!
 
30 seconds. Hmm. Probably not without being pretty out of air. Though, given four weeks race driver training regime, that situation would change positively.
 
Not at full speed for 30s no.. and I mean puke-inducing full speed effort and intensity and energy required to run at full speed. I'm pretty fit but there's no way I could do that.

I can half run with a van hooked onto my back at full intensity for 30s though - it's not full speed though :p
 
I wouldn't be exhausted (as in unable to carry on/do other things) but I would be out of breath and stand there panting like a dog for a little while.#


then again i might be severely underestimating how long 30 second actually is.
 
I used to be able to break from our own 18 yard box and run flat out with the ball to the opposing by line or 18 yard box.

I'd be blowing out my arse when I'd finished theough.
 
Depends on your definition of exhausted.

I sprint and stop non-stop during a football match, I feel out of breath a lot of the time, I rarely feel exhausted though.

I used to run the 200 and 400m in Atheletics, 400m was pretty much a sprint at about 90% intensity for first 200 then flat out for the last 200. Thats getting on for nearly a minute.
 
Mint_Sauce said:
I don't know about running max for 30 seconds but I am able to run over 2.5 miles at a pace of about 10:13 (average for whole distance) on trails. Literally almost exactly a month ago I couldn't even run/jog comfortably for 40 seconds at a time!

I've run every other day since then and used the C25K program (you can get even get it on your iPhone) and today I completed my first 25 minute non stop run! Granted, I found it fairly hard as I was trying to maintain my pace (wanted to hit 10:00) but still, I was chuffed! :D

This is coming from someone who did virtually no exercise as well! Am chuffed and thought I'd share. Running is great when you get in to it.
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Top stuff mate :)

I started running last week and went from not being able to do more than a couple of minutes to running 2.5K in 10.5 minutes. Im only running twice a week at the moment as I've been suffering from lower back pain :(
 
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