I am a 400/800m runner who is going to be competing in my first collegiate indoor 1000m in 13 days. I've tried to look up race footage and try to find some common strategies but I've heard so many mixed views. Do I treat it like an 800 and kick for my life early on? Do I hold onto the back of the pack and pray I can outkick everyone? Anyone else care to share their experiences? It'd be much appreciated?
Be ballsy. Don't think about strategy, just go and run the race. The best way to learn the hard (but fast) way is to go in blind. Guarantee that you'll appreciate the race a hell of a lot more! BE. BALLSY.
Run an 800 and hold on for dear life in the last 200. Or take the high risk, high reward approach of going out slow and catching people late.
1st: 200m: go out hard
2nd: float
3rd: float
4th: hard
5th: super hard/hammer it
Don’t confuse “float” with “comfortably hard. If the final 700m of the race isn’t the most painful thing you’ve ever experienced with the pain getting more and more intense each second then you did it wrong!
Good luck!