For example, I used to run the 800m in 1:57. At that time, a 2:00 wasn't that bad for me, and I could feel in control doing a 2:00. How can 3 seconds out of 120 seconds make you feel all out, blacking out, so much pain...to controlled, way less pain..
your heart rate has to be almost exactly the same during these two efforts?
the same way lifting 100 pounds might be beyond someone's capability but 90 is within it.
fararrrrrrr!!!!!! wrote:
the same way lifting 100 pounds might be beyond someone's capability but 90 is within it.
No, that's muscle fiber recruitment being insufficient to move something.
because at a certain point your efficiency goes to crap. its a small time difference with a large effort difference
Parse the race out into two managable stages, saving the uncomfortable part for the last. You might be able to run an 800 in your controlled happy zone for the first part, then attack it in the pain zone for the last part, and come out with a better than 1:57. When and where to make the switch is up to you, and will take practice
It seems to me to be a mind-over-matter situation for you. And the 800 isn't all that accomdating to negative split running, but it can be done with practice.
It has to do with the speed of light being a constant.
Vim Fuego wrote:
It has to do with the speed of light being a constant.
except in an event horizon of course, but that goes without saying :)
I read somewhere that you actually start out under mainly anaerobic power, and then switch to mainly aerobic after 10 or 20 seconds. I don't remember where I read it.
Maybe that roughly coincides with when you're done accelerating or settle on a pace.
When you run the 800, it should always feel too fast. It's more efficient to positive-split than to even-split. If you're at a pace you can maintain, it's too slow.