One of my runners bet me that he could easily run a 400 backwards in 90 seconds. He is a sub 10 3200 meter guy, but I told him he wouldn't even be close. Needless to say, he was way off pace at 200 meters and his calfs were on fire so he dropped out.
Has anyone else here tried a backwards 400 meters?
I do backwards running as a sprint drill...doesn't seem too hard for 50 or 60 meters, have never tried it for longer.
The world record for running a 1/2 marathon backwards is one hour and 40 minutes.
The WR for 4 x 100 meters run backwards is just around 1 minute.
A sub 10 minute two miler should be able to do a 90 second backward 400 meters. Put him back out there
I was part of a group that did a backwards 400 for an event at relay for life. We didn't time it but I wouldnt be too suprised if I was close to 90 seconds (we had to dodge around a bit because they didn't clear off th track like they said they would) and I was only an 11:08 two miler. I guess it's a lot different though than normal running cuz I beat a sub 10:00 minute runner. I felt it in my quads more than my calves tho.