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Date Posted: 17:12:12 05/23/01 Wed
Author: Alain
Author Host/IP: webcache.ccs.yorku.ca / 130.63.75.20
Subject: Re: running the 800m
In reply to: Nate 's message, "Re: running the 800m" on 16:05:38 05/22/01 Tue

>If not not that fast right now your best bet would be
>to go out a little faster, that will give you some
>leeway for the last lap. If you have a lot of
>strength and are pretty fast then you can go more even
>splits. When I ran 1:49.1 I went 54.6 then 54.4. But
>thats only becsaue I have a lot of strength right now,
>last year I was going more like 53-54 then like 55-56.

Nate's right on the money. There was a discussion about the "ideal" 800 race a couple of years ago on the US track list and some guy did a very thorough breakdown of splits in the fastest races. They were pretty much *always* about 2 seconds faster for the first 400.

Alain

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