Running and Setting the Pace at Top Speed
As a fellow runner athlete and track and field champion I can tell you I often laugh when folks discuss distance running and calling what we do in track and field distance running. Look distance running is a 10-miler or more, perhaps a half-marathon, marathon or ultra-marathon. In high school many might call the 800-meter, 1-mile or 2-mile run a distance race, but if you are running it at the top levels these are no distance races.
Sometimes when I have conversations with high-school and college athletes they talk about setting up a pace and staying on pace? I think you know that is nice, but really that is not what it is about. Running competitively and running to win, I mean really win, every race and never losing, requires a completely different mindset and it has little to do with setting a pace.
Well I guess you could say you set a pace, you get your body out in front or right near it and settling on a perfect rhythm at top speed and top form and hold that for the rest of the race until you win. Of course when you competition responds in kind you refine your efficiency and dig deep for more power, performance and inertia.
Now some might say you cannot talk like this to high school athletes. Why not I ask? They want to know how to win the race right? Well isn’t that why they are there; to win? If not why compete in track and field anyway, why compete in anything if you are not there to win; what is the use. What is the matter it might hurt their feelings? Please, if you want to win in track you need to set the pace as fast as you can and hold it the entire distance. If you cannot do that you cannot win the state finals. Trust me.
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