Testing Times For The Dons

[Merv]

Everyone needs to remember that professional football players are all very good athletes yes but not professional runners. An amateur player or players can be a very good runner - my son is one of them. The three k times set are very good for players who also need speed, muscle strength, agility, etc. A good under 15 3k runner should be able to run 9min 30 secs but they will be slight, have reasonable speed 13 sec for 100 metres. The Under 18 3 k national record is 7:59. My son(19) runs 3km in around 8min has a speed over 100 on 12 secs BUT weights 69kg. His main sport is Aths but played afl for fun! It would be interesting to know how many of the Ocean groves players are like him

Thanks for pointing that out TS.

That puts it into perspective now.

 

[Merv]

Stanton said the winner ran 9.23 and was into athletics in the off season.

 

[twoshoes]

Well that complicates it even further as in a 3k race the secret is to get the pacing right for you. If the normal runners tried to go with a trained athlete they would hang for a lap or two but then really find the pace too tough, have an earlier lactic build up and normally run a slower time. I was doing some work with some school students trying to get them a feel for a 10 minute 3 k. It requires 80 sec for 400 metres for 7 and a half laps. It sounds quite easy but try it and you find out how difficult it is. In a race inexperienced runners lose this feeling for the pace very easily with quite disasterous results. The Essendon players did well not to do this!

 

[Big Blow Hard]

Nah what's funny is that your "professional" AFL team got beaten by a amatuer team that has been training for 2 wks..... NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!

Yeah, well you slobs got beat by Keilor Primary School!

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Yeah, well you slobs got beat by Keilor Primary School!

LOL. You Schooled him. That was a good match!