Wednesday, March 02, 2011

How to Race the 400 meters

Here are a couple of good articles about how to train and race the 400 meters:

First one can be found here courtesy of www.speedendurance.com:

http://media.speedendurance.com/SpeedEndurance-How_to_Run_the_400_meters.pdf

The second one can be found here courtesy of www.usatf.org and Clyde Hart (400 meter guru):
http://www.usatf.org/groups/Coaches/library/2007/Sprint%20Training/Clyde_Hart3.pdf

Here are the videos of the 400m. world records:
Marita Koch East Germany 47.60 1985


Michael Johnson United States 43.18 1999


If you know of any other similar training links, feel free to share the link in the comment section below.  What is your race strategy when you run the 400 meters?  How do you teach your runners to race the 400 meters?  Do you take splits?

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