I have a problem that some guys sit behind me and kick it out the last 50m I am not sure how to combat this what do you guys think? And out kicking them is out the question.
I have a problem that some guys sit behind me and kick it out the last 50m I am not sure how to combat this what do you guys think? And out kicking them is out the question.
Run faster.
Run your own race.
Don't sit around and wait for the kick.
take their kick away by running faster the other parts of the race.
Sit and kick on them.
Surges mid-race. Creates pain, uncertainty and destroys fast-twitch capability. A good, well-placed surge gives the surger the upper hand as he knows when and where, and has better aerobic ability to recover late in the race. You can't beat a kicker who is at your aerobic level, but you can discourage him and defeat someone if he is otherwise equal with surges.
Like bath says, make a move mid to 2/3 into the race and never look back. If they are not on your shoulder, they are much less likely to run you down. Even a small gap can take the courage out of a kicker.
If they can stick with you until 50m to go, they will always win. You must increase your fitness so that you can run fast early on and in the middle of races to put a gap on them, and it wouldn't hurt to do short sprints of 100m with full recovery to work on your own turnover so they will have less of a chance to outsprint you if they are still close.
Bottom line, get faster, and work on your own sprint speed. Try alternate tactics like surging mid race or trying to create a gap before you go into the last lap.
Start your kick earlier.
be faster
Have a faster finishing sprint.
He who kicks last kicks best. Train to cover their move, then use yours.
This is not a question of speed but endurance. The fresher you are at 200 the faster your kick will be. If you can run a 60 sec lap or 28 over the last 200 and have a lead you'll be hard to catch.
bob kennedy alternated laps of 62 and 67 at 5k nats in 2001 to destroy the kick of adam goucher
has been who never was wrote:
Like bath says, make a move mid to 2/3 into the race and never look back. If they are not on your shoulder, they are much less likely to run you down. Even a small gap can take the courage out of a kicker.
See the Women's 5k at the Stanford Invitational?
Aerson kicked down a 5 second deficit in the last lap and still won by 3 secs!!
Take it out hard from start?? Neutralize their kick
Like everyone else said, go out harder, and start your own kick earlier.
But as for out kicking them being out of the question - that's only true if you let yourself believe it. It's a myth that once you're slow you're slow forever. Work on your finishing speed just like you would hills or endurance. It's a slow process, but I went from being so slow that the other distance guys made fun of my lack of speed to being one of the better kickers and running on the school record 4x400.
Get in faster races.
If these guys are still out kicking you then they are just better than you.
Go out FAST. In high school one time, I beat a kicker by running 65, 65, 65, 80 in a mile. He was far behind me going into the last lap and finished just one foot behind me.
I always used to make my move with 300M to go. Pick it up on the backstretch and then try to hold on.
or drop a 12.3 second 100 in the middle of the race.
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