How do we run the 400m?

Question

i want to know for the first 100m if u go fast medium or slow and then the next 100m fast slow or medium and the last 200m fast medium or slow? yea get it?

i need to improve my time its 1:05 and im 13

Answer 1

No, you guys are wrong. At the beggining, you want to go fast, but not full sprint, but near the lead until the bend. then the next 100m should be a good steady stride. you want to reach around second by the bend. on the second bend speed up and when you are just about 3/4 through the bend sprint.

WARNING! avoid being in 1st until the last 100m. You need to anticipate your opponents!

Answer 2

Sprint the first 100, medium the next 200, sprint the last 100. At the Olympic level they sprint the whole way but they are in ridiculous shape.

Answer 3

400 go out as fast as you can but totally relaxed

after turn # 3 its all guts, you'll be full of lactic acid, but that is the time you dig deep and kick it in

Answer 4

I go as fast as i can for the whole race, thats my shortest race so i dont have alot of experience with shorter stuff. I run a 62 easily.

Answer 5

sprint the whole thing is what my coaches have told me and they both went to state in the 400 and 400hurdels.

Answer 6

Don't listen to Tyler, nobody on EARTH!! spirnts the whole thing, it may seem like they do but they really don't, on the first 100m you want to get out of the curve so stay with the pack, then on the straight if you can get out of there then by all means do it, and on the 150 mark thats where you push it ans sprint it all out.

Answer 7

Run the first 50 meters at near top speed, maintain this speed by relaxing your upper body while maintaining your leg speed and turnover. Once you have settled into the rhythm of the race and got the feel for your competition it's time to start to think about the next important part of the race which is at the 200M mark where you should increase the actions of your arms and to begin driving and lifting your knees, to resume more of a sprinting action which should allow you to come off the final curve even or ahead of your opponents,during the final 100 meters of the race, you should try to stay relaxed even though you are tired as h*ll and your legs feel like lead.

Answer 8

The first 60 meters should be hard. You won't get yourself into trouble. After the first 60 meters you want to get into a sustainable relaxed pace with good turnover all the way through to the 200 meter mark. (What does that all mean, I don't know, it's different for everyone) If you go out too hard after that initial 60 meters you will start to pay for it. Up to 60 meters, you can pretty much go as fast as you can. At the 200 meter mark you have to start trying to run every step faster. Building each step faster and faster all the way through the finish. (In reality, you will be slowing down). So, get out hard, settle into a good comfortable pace then at the 200 meter mark make it a 200 meter sprint to the finish.

Answer 9

I am a long distance runner at heart but when I do the 400m I start at sort of a strider pace for the first 100 and then on the far side of the track I run at a sort of steady strong sprint pace. Then bring it all home in the last couple of meters with all that I've got left.