Letsrun, you are WRONG about 600m pacing

You are right. A 600m race is run by getting out fast and holding on. In the NCAA indoors they used to run a 600 yard race. The best runners were usually 400m runners who would blaze a fast 440 yards and then hold on. With proper coaching and training those guys were likely our best 800m runners as well.

His actual splits:

23.25/24.40(47.65)/26.06(1:13.71)

I agree that he needed to get out faster.

Indoors controlling the first turn after the break-in is the key to the event and on the old fit into a hockey arena 11 laps to the mile tracks even more important than on a 200m track.

Army time made me miss some of the early years of Martin McGrady and Lee Evans in the Mel Shepard 600yds @ MSG.

For comparison, Rudisha's 800m splits:

23.3/25.98/25.03/26.61

I was there in Louisville at the Mason Dixon Games when McGrady set the indoor WR for 600 yds in 1966 (I think it was 1:09 flat)and then had the dubious honor to run a mile relay leg against him. Boy did I get smoked!! The next year he and Lee Evans were matched in the 600 yds and McGrady won but no WR that time. He was a great indoor runner.

He was "The Chairman Of The Boards" long before Eamonn Coghlan.

coacht27 wrote:

I was there in Louisville at the Mason Dixon Games when McGrady set the indoor WR for 600 yds in 1966 (I think it was 1:09 flat)and then had the dubious honor to run a mile relay leg against him. Boy did I get smoked!! The next year he and Lee Evans were matched in the 600 yds and McGrady won but no WR that time. He was a great indoor runner.