The 200 meter race is a mixture of all out force running as fast as you can and doubling it to another painstaking 100 meters. There are numerous runners who work best in a 100 meter dash but can’t bring their top speed efficiency to a doubled distance. Whereas there are talented runners who are [...]
Few athletes will not have been inspired by the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, telling how Eric Liddell, plus his other British teammates, won Olympic glory on the track. In one scene, one of Liddell’s teammates, Harold, sits with his coach watching a scratchy black and white film of a classic race of the past. [...]
200 metre sprint training Covering the 200 metre distance is similar to that of running the 100 metres. You need to be running at full speed the entire 200 metres. Unlike the 400 metres and the 800 metre distance, there is not an awful lot of time to ease off full tilt at any stage [...]
