Not a positive split in the truest sense, but Alan Webb's 12.3 split from 800 to 900 meters at the 2005 WC's. It was an astonishing display of aggressiveness, and was ultimately suicidal. Funny to watch now.
Not a positive split in the truest sense, but Alan Webb's 12.3 split from 800 to 900 meters at the 2005 WC's. It was an astonishing display of aggressiveness, and was ultimately suicidal. Funny to watch now.
Artificial Intelligence wrote:
I once outkicled someone in a 2 mile, he had 110 meters to the finish line. I was looking straight across at him from the 200 start line. I beat him at the line. Coaches were made at me for show boating. It's was a high school duel meet.
Your spelling and grammar are so bad they violate the first law of robotics.
Back in 1978 or 1979 the was an 800 (880 back then) runner in whatever national meet there was at the time that went out in 49. Finished in 1:49+.
so... 49/60
bean wrote:
well i was running a cross country race and some freshman ran the first 800 in 2:27 and finished the 5k in like 24 minutes
When I went back to school a little later in life, I ended up on the cross country team (first experience) and I found out the cross country races often start out just like that - everyone running substantially faster at the start, usually because we begin in a more open setting then move into single-track trail, so people run like crazy to get positioning, not because they have a poor sense of pace. It was surprising. I was a 17:00 guy running a 3:15 first km just to keep up with the people I knew were in my range.
my experience wrote:
I was a 17:00 guy running a 3:15 first km just to keep up with the people I knew were in my range.
... forgot to mention it was obviously 8km races for cross country. So a 17:00 road 5k guy running a 3:15 first km for hilly 8k cross country... ouch. World of hurt.
Dayumn. Had a 400 runner at my HS get thrown into an 800...he went 56/74 if I remember right, and I thought that was bad.
somebody at our home meet split 1:02/1:58. He was not on the roster for any other meet.
800m race, 60/76.
mid socks wrote:
Ha, I did 55/90 in an 800 once in a conference championship meet. I was pacing a teammate who was trying to score out of the slow heat (they didn't do prelims with a final). Almost no one knew what I was doing and thought I just blew up. Got some pity cheers even.
Usually pacers just drop out...
had a football guy with a lot of talent come out to run the 800... took it out with some all state kid in the race in 53 at 400, jogged home in 76 after hitting the wall really hard.
At a dual meet my sophomore year we were going to race the 800 and the other team was likely to get 1-2 since their guys had both ran 2:03. Our coach told the Jv runners to go out fast and try and run the wheels off the other guys. A glaring hole in his plan though was that Jv runners usually can't even run a sub 60 quarter, but they tried it. It turned out that one guy could as he ran a 59 first 400 before crawling to a 2:34 800. Worst part was he paced the two rival runners to 1:59 each.
Are y'all serious? Those are the worst you have ever heard of! My friend had never run an 800 before. When he got the start line he had just ate a huge meal because he forgot he was even running it. Long story short, he went out in 60 and came back with a 120 second final lap. He ran his first 800 in 2:59. He was actually kind of proud that he broke three.
Artificial Intelligence wrote:
I once outkicled someone in a 2 mile, he had 110 meters to the finish line. I was looking straight across at him from the 200 start line. I beat him at the line. Coaches were made at me for show boating. It's was a high school duel meet.
I don't think duels are legal anymore.
2015 USATF 800m: Duane Solomon. Out in 49.x, finished in 3:08.74. so 49/2:19 splits
While not the severe positive split like other examples, I think its pretty comical that Joyciline Jepkosgei positive split that half marathon and set a 10k wr en route, less than half the distance of her race.
my 800 PR
127.xx through 600
37 last 200
also - a buddy of mine ran the marathon once , was 71.xx at the half, then 91 second half. pretty rough
i once did something similar, 121 for the first 600, 37 for the last 200
HS cross country has races where guys will run close to 5:00 pace for the first 3/4 of a mile and finish with 6:20 pace average.
Saw a guy go 50.6/73 for a 2:03 800 at a college meet earlier this spring.
Zersanay Tadesse
1.02/1.22 London marathon 2009!