I barfed every time my coach put me on any race over 200.
I kept telling him I was a sprinter, not distance runner.
Anything over 175, and I was past empty.
Jerk didn’t like me, so he also made sure I was on 400m and Mile relay :^/
Yeah...this guy pretty much turned the 440 into a sprint. To look at him, you wouldn’t have thought “sprinter,” either. Looked like a football player.
You couldn't have simply "taken it easy," and run at a comfortable speed? Show some backbone!
Regards,