What could I run with positive splits?

next 800 race take it out in 58.5 and try to close in 61/62 for 1:59/2:00

negative splits are a horrible way to approach an 800 unless you're facing very weak competition or are using the race as a workout or tuneup.

the fact that you closed in 61 as well as your 3200 PR tells me you are more of a speed guy

sub 2 may be a bit of a stretch but you need to figure out how fast you can take your first lap in a true PR effort, as well as gain experience kicking when you've already ran a fast first lap

Thanks. Just asking, but what is the physiological reason that a faster first lap gets you a faster 800m time? I'mstill going to do the positive split's thing, I'd just like to know that science behind it.

Unless you have 50 sec 400 speed right now, it doesn't make a lot of sense to attempt negative split 800 racing until later. At this point in the season it would make more sense to go out hard and test your 2nd lap strength, and at least get a sense of where your 1st lap breaking point is. When it comes to your upcoming championship meets, you'll have to figure our your 1st lap "sweet split" wherein you can best maintain tempo through that 2nd lap and perhaps run a relative negative split race.

Hey, OP here. I wasn't really the guy that got those times, but my senior teammate was the one. My team Thought that negative splits was the way to go, and I was trying to convince our best 800 runner to try the positive split tactic.

He tried it, with a ok amount of success. But it did have a reasonable amount of success with the rest of my team, as alot of them got PRs (infact, there were 2 underclassman who was running 2:12/2:11s. They made the jump to 2:08/2:07 ). In-fact, I asked one of my female teammates thats not a 800m runner to try it, and she managed to break 2:30.

A couple races later, we were facing up against a school that we didn't expect to beat. The 800m senior decided to go balls out, and run the 58 first lap. I told an underclassman to stay with the senior.

The 58 Lap split was set, and they all swept 123. But they all managed to break 2 min (the week before they came off of a super fast invitational) and one of them had a breakout performance in the 8. That guy managed to qualify for our sections, but he didn't come too close to the time set at this race. As for our guys, the underclassman managed to beat the senior (who, understandably, was tried from leading the race) in a 2:02. Senior was 2:04. A couple of my other teammates managed to get wickedly fast times too. All this, at a freaking dual meet.

My teammates and coach credited me for the reason that the team got fast times in the 800.

Thank you Letsrun.com

So you lied to us in your original post?

Pretty much

Or you just get them in races against faster competition and they have to go out fast to keep up or let a huge gap develop.

where are you racing an 800 in late October? seems strange.

Check the timestamp if the first post. This is last season.