I've been holding out until the last 200m to push using my CP energy to fuel me. Should I start this closer to 300m or even before that?

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Meb Keflezighi · Answer

When you're competing, the expenditure of energy is very important. It depends on who you're competing against, what their strength is, and what their weakness is, and what's yours. Depending on that, you can make those calculated decisions, strategize how you want to execute a great race. Is it good to kick with 200 meters left or earlier? In the 1500 meters, probably earlier, I would say, just to set yourself up. Also, if your strength is stamina, then you want to go early. If your strength is speed, you want to wait as late as possible, because if those competitors against you are, you have slower speed than you do, then you are on the driver's side. It all depends on what you want to get out and who you're competing against, but more importantly, you want to be as fluid, holding the forms tight together, and expenditure of energy is important. Steady pace, and gradually you want to get faster and faster and faster, and try to hold that composure of form is important. Good luck, have fun, and hope it works. Just imagine, the hands and the legs have to be cadence very important, and be able to just hold the form together, and that will get you great results.

Joetta Clark · Answer

Good question. Should you pick up with the last 200 or the last 300 of a race? And that is determined by your practices. How you're training, what you're doing, that will indicate how you pick up the strategy, who's in the race. These are all factors. However, if you're trying to say that, you know, you want to work in a different system, a different cycle, and to be able to extend it out for 300 or make it shorter 200 or 150 or 100 yards in, then again, that's something that you have to do and practice to see what works. But when you're racing, when you're competing, sometimes you cannot wait for the last 200 or do it at the 300. They may decide to go at a 400. They may decide to go to 150. And if you don't get in there and stay close, then you're not going to be able to use your kick or to extend your kick to 300 meters. So in other words, if you want to work on a system and a cycle, that's good. But when you're racing, when you're competing, you have to be able to either extend it or, you know, or do it shorter. But you have to be able to mix it up and be able to use whatever system that's needed for you to win that race.

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"I've been holding out until the last 200m to push using my CP energy to fuel me. Should I start this closer to 300m or even before that? "