4:27 with 2:04 opening half... how fast can I go with better splits?

How’d the relay wind up? Did you catch the guy ahead of you? Were you running in no-man’s land much of the time or doing all the work? Did you feel like you gave up at all in the latter stages or did you fight gamely till the end?

What were your splits in your 1:58.1? What’s your best 400m?

Based on what I know, I’m guessing 4:20 blazing. Definitely should be targeting a PR in your next open 1600, though.

Mule Wasihun Variations wrote:

How’d the relay wind up? Did you catch the guy ahead of you? Were you running in no-man’s land much of the time or doing all the work? Did you feel like you gave up at all in the latter stages or did you fight gamely till the end?

What were your splits in your 1:58.1? What’s your best 400m?

Based on what I know, I’m guessing 4:20 blazing. Definitely should be targeting a PR in your next open 1600, though.

op here:

basically ran the whole thing with the guy 100m ahead of me.

52 best 400m in relay.

when i ran the 800m open splits were 57 61

later that day I ran that 1:58 and then a 4:31 in which i sat and kicked and it felt easy.

4:18-4:20 if you run 65-66 for 1200

I just looked up the splits to a race where I ran really bad splits and got a PR from 5 years ago. I forgot I was this dumb.

64 - 2:03 (59) - 3:19 (76) - 4:29 (70)

The year after I got my PR by going

62 - 2:07 (65) - 3:17 (70) - 4:21 (64)

runnerrrrrrr8832895q34 wrote:

60, 64, then 2:23 second half. If I ran more even splits what do you think I could run?

depends.

what's your 800m PB?

What's your 3200m or 5k PB?

weekly mileage?

if you can go out in 2:04 and hang on for a 4:27 and have any amount of natural speed, it seems like you could run at least 1:56-57 in the 800 based on your endurance and grittiness to tough it out. 56-60

I ran 4:26 and 1:55 in high school but could split under 50 on the 4x400 and I would NOT have been able to hang on for a 4:27 like you did.

I was only running 25 miles a week though and had a modest 16:12 5k time from XC so not endurance-based

Haha, you ran a 60 second first lap?! Didn't that feel a bit....uh, fast?!

round and round wrote:

runnerrrrrrr8832895q34 wrote:

60, 64, then 2:23 second half. If I ran more even splits what do you think I could run?

depends.

what's your 800m PB?

What's your 3200m or 5k PB?

weekly mileage?

if you can go out in 2:04 and hang on for a 4:27 and have any amount of natural speed, it seems like you could run at least 1:56-57 in the 800 based on your endurance and grittiness to tough it out. 56-60

I ran 4:26 and 1:55 in high school but could split under 50 on the 4x400 and I would NOT have been able to hang on for a 4:27 like you did.

I was only running 25 miles a week though and had a modest 16:12 5k time from XC so not endurance-based

Haha, you ran a 60 second first lap?! Didn't that feel a bit....uh, fast?!

800 is 1:58, 5k is 15:41, 400m relay is 52. 30 mpw. looking to go 1:54 this season.