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Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:39 am

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No one can run 200 meters at 100% so the answer is surely PACE.

But the pacing for some athletes (e.g., coming down in distance) is pretty close to all-out (get up to 95-98% of top speed and hold it, coasting as well as possible, then going all-out for the final 40).

Young sprinters who go all-out in the 200 rig. When I coach them to hold back just a bit and coast just a bit they run faster times.



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Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:26 pm

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Being a middle distance runner (400- 800- mile), I never though about holding back in the 200 meters, I went all out, but then again, my all out was probably the same as a sprinters 95 - 99 % effort.
I am not sure I would use the term "coast" in a sprint, I think I would use the term "cruise", which is what I did when I ran the 400 meters in relays. To me coast seem to bring to mind slowing down, while cruise to me is holding the same pace. I guess it is just semantics.

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Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:54 pm

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Coast, cruise, float, whatever you want to call it. I try to think of it as no longer trying to accelerate. Not being a particularly good starter and only average in the 100, I always enjoy the 200 more because you get a chance to run really fast for a "long" period of time. Rigging or tying up happens to me when I forget that you can't go faster than top speed. That is the tempting part of the 200, once you get to top speed there is still lots of race to be run so the greedy part of me wants to keep running faster instead of realizing that I need to relax and just try to minimize the amount of slowing down. The one thing that cannot be debated is the need to run the first 50 meters all out and get to top speed.

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Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:12 pm

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Well said BLL. My approach: accelerate to top speed 50-60m, float next 50-60, increase to all out effort again over next 10m, maintain relaxed maximum velocity until the end.

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