What is your strategy for running the 1500m?

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Meb Keflezighi · Answer

My strategy for running the 1500 meter has been two ways. Even pace, if I'm talented in the field that I'm in, if I can get away with it, that's what I usually do, even pace. Try to run 61, 62 pace and finish strong. Otherwise, if I'm competing against guys that are equally talented or better talented than I am, I gotta start out really fast. And sometimes, even if it means 59 seconds first lap. That's how I won my CIF San Diego County and State and also how I have run sometimes PR because I just push as hard as I can early on and make sure others are not in reach of their kick for me to catch me. So I try to get away as far as I can before the last 400 meter. And those are the two strategies that I have used to run well in the 1500, which equals to 342 1500 meter and 405 mile in high school.

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