My teammate and I are milers who have both split around 52 in the 4x4...
We got to talking about how fast we could run a downhill 400 and he says sub 45. I disagree— I’d say 47-50
We plan to find a hill on a country road that is as steep as safe and try this. What are your predictions about the time?
Either sub 44 or DNF due to pulled hamstring.
Probably not too far off sub-45, I'd estimate 46-47 though. Fwiw i ran a 3:58 mile on a downhill road race and my track PR was only 4:19. Downhill can be much much faster if you know how to run it.
Going from 52 to 45 seems possible with the right hill, if you have reasonable speed. If you run 52 with a 25 200 time (ie massive speed endurance and no speed) it will not be possible to run a downhill 45.
Watch those hamstrings!
Be careful. Running downhill takes different muscles as you know so you may do something really stupid.
That said, if you descend like Kilian then you could make some serious drop quickly or you could biff it hard.
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