Tag: 800 meters
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The 800-meter track race: The intimacy of pain and pursuit

For the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the New York Times put a sprinter, a middle-distance runner, and a marathoner on the world’s fastest treadmill, which is located at the Locomotor Performance Laboratory at Southern Methodist University in Texas and tops out at 90 mph, and analyzed the differences between running fast and running far. Near the end of the…