Hey everyone, as a coach at a HS, I'm looking for a few races I could show the students that depict clever tactics and would motivate them to further themselves in the sport.
Please post below.
Hey everyone, as a coach at a HS, I'm looking for a few races I could show the students that depict clever tactics and would motivate them to further themselves in the sport.
Please post below.
The Olympic mens 10,000 is now on YouTube in HD.
Look at how Farah & Rupp stay up near the front, keep their eye on everyone, stay out of trouble... and kick to victory.
At the same time, look at the Ethiopians, Eritreans and Kenyans hand victory to Farah & Rupp by NOT working together either as a country or a bloc and not having a race strategy!!
Pro race tactics don't resemble high school race tactics. High school runners are too varied in their ability to all be in a pack at the bell. At most there'll be three or four.
Here's the greatest breakaway ever done on the track (though in cross country it's common as dirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9N-iqzXzA
starts on the 3rd lap.
Basically any win by Bernard Lagat. In terms of track tactics, he always positions himself perfectly and out of trouble, and always seems to be able to dart out of traffic up to the front.
Cross Country.... Colorado runners at NCAA XC./ Withrow 2003 FL finals
mid-distance... dave wottle 72' olympics/ yuriy borzakovskiy vs Andre Bucher races
distance.... tergat vs. gebreselassie, billy mills oly.
Any Alan Webb race
dave wottle 72' olympics
Wottle was the WR holder, yet he chose to sit back, risk getting boxed and blocked and running wide through the traffic, and found himself far behind in the stretch. Only a desperate surge and lean could salvage the race for him. He was the clear favorite, but he raced very stupidly and almost lost.
Borza has wasted his considerable talent on the same moronic strategy. He pulled it off once, but has had no luck since.
Even-splitting is the strategy of running inefficient splits and extra distance in the hope that either the race will be slow, or that everyone who runs efficient, positive splits will fail badly. It rarely works, which makes it look amazing when it does, hence people think it's good strategy.
runner85 wrote:
Cross Country.... Colorado runners at NCAA XC./ Withrow 2003 FL finals
mid-distance... dave wottle 72' olympics/ yuriy borzakovskiy vs Andre Bucher races
distance.... tergat vs. gebreselassie, billy mills oly.
I wouldn't say Withrow is a good example. His strategy didn't work. He tried to breakaway and win, it definitely wasn't part of his plan to be caught and gapped again.
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