Some good advice, most I don't agree with. Run the absolute fastest race you can. There are guys who have run 5+ seconds faster than you, I'm sorry but if you don't do your pushups, you're screwed. Another plan is to go out at 66 and maintain.
Most these people are acting like it is the world championships. These aren't experienced tacticians. This is high school, races always go out way too fast. Hang back when everybody else goes out like a maniac. Aim for even splits, then give em hell on the last lap and see if you can close on them.
LMAO EXACTLY. Hes a 17-18 year old kid, not a 32 year old 5000m runner with 4 oly golds.
RejectRunner wrote:
LMAO EXACTLY. Hes a 17-18 year old kid, not a 32 year old 5000m runner with 4 oly golds.
Ight Rejectrunner, you're a freshmen arn't you.
Don't take advice from this handle just yet
Run 65s.
Choose scissors and hope no one chooses rock.
Art Vandelay the fake one wrote:
Choose scissors and hope no one chooses rock.
That looks good on paper..
Distract them with a "gooble gooble MFers" right before the race or poop in their compression socks the night before.
how to race wrote:
Mediocre HS Senior wrote:My league is having our finals next Thursday and I'm primarily concerned about how i'm going to do place wise in the race. I have a pr of 4:29 for the 1600m while my 2 Teammates have pr's if 4:26 and 4:24. There is also a kid from another school who has ran 4:24 so far this season. I know I'm close to all these guys, however what strategy could I use to ultimately take the win ?
This is how it's done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grf_62s_95w
The winner in that video was a drug cheat
Are you promoting that
We ran our League Prelims on monday and the 4:24 kid from another school beat me in the 800 with a 1:57.78 and I ran 1:58.07 . I lead him for most of the race until the last 200 and then he pulled away on the last 100m. Finals are today so we'll see how that goes
Run a smart race and hope you are better that day than they are. That's all you can do.
There are a lot of ways to skin a cat. Sounds like you might be the one doing all the work. You could be better served sitting on them rather than leading (you will have more left in the tank if you are not the one leading). If you are typically the one who sets the early pace in a race, you can surprise everyone by not going to the front (or if you are at the front, you can set a miserly pace at strategic points in the race). I won the 800 state championship my senior year against a couple of guys who on paper had faster times by controlling the race. During the season they would sit on me and kick. At state I let someone else lead the first lap, went to the front before the curb, slowed the pace from 400-500 (very rarely will someone try to pass on a corner and if they do they will expend a lot of energy trying to go around you), and threw in a long surge from 500-800. It eliminated the short kick from the guys that wanted to kick at the end, bunched the rest of the pack to make them have to move around a lot of people and left me in control of my race. The 1600 is a different beast since it is longer. The main thing you don't want to do is go out to fast.