I just don't eat food. That way you don't have to be that muscular to have the ol' 6 pack showing up. I've been ripped since I was like 16 but that's also because I've never weighed much over 135lbs.
So my suggestion to you is to stop eating food.

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I never bothered doing ab workouts, but some of my friends have six-packs and they are 15. When they were doing a sit up ******* contest they got up into the hundreds before I gave up on paying attention. One of my friends says he does 100 sit-ups a day, I tell him he is crazy.

When I started running I picked up weight training too, just to build a little bulk, I went from bench pressing 70 pounds (once) to being able to bench 120 (once) in a few months training every other day, as well as going from 270 to 410 on the leg press.

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One of my friends says he does 100 sit-ups a day, I tell him he is crazy.<HR>

Most runners should be capable of doing at least this with some ease. If you've been running with any kind of consistency ab-work should be a breeze.
It's important to remember that when doing ab-work you need to balance your core strength. That means back, obliques, chest, even hip flexors. While I was in decent shape my core work would include up to 500 repitions balanced between different exercises that worked different muscle groups.

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I think 6-packs are a result of low body fat, and pretty much just that. It might look better if you do 100 situps a day, but not a whole lot. If you have 15% bodyfat and do 100 situps a day, and I have 12% and do ten a day, my six pack will be better. Why so worried about the 6 pack anyway? If you can lose more weight and still be healthy, so you can run faster, I say go for it, and I guess the 6 pack is a nice reward too. I just couldn't motivate myself for that (the six pack alone). I wear a shirt all the time though.

My advice on weight loss (perhaps not the best, but it works):
In wrestling, I'd eat a large bowl of oatmeal for breakfast with some fruit, have a meat sandwich around 11, an apple about 1, practice 3-5, and have a salad for dinner. (And drink lots of water, except on the day of weigh-ins. But you should drink lots of water all the time) I'd lose 3 lbs a week fairly comfortably. (Most I ever lost was 12lbs.) If I needed to lose more I'd just go off one meal, (meaning skip dinner, and make lunch real small) or two meals (no lunch or dinner, just a salad for brekky).

try fasting for a month, it does wonders

Who are you trying to impress anyway?