I had people tell me I should run it that way. But I never wanted to be the guy with the monkey on his back though lol. I also had people tell me that I should use the first 100m as momentum, like a sling shot!? I guess it's kind of the same method though. I have a friend that had great strength from running the 800 so he'd run the 400m like you ran it and had great times (not near as great 100 and 200 times though). I guess the theory behind my method was supposed to be energy conservation, idk.Lol at the javelin story. The full out was just a reference for the effort to give. Maintaining form was fairly easy and I had good acceleration/turnover so I figured it would make up for any strength I lacked. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
But I was self taught. My father really took on the task of being my coach. We noticed I had the talent at 11 but didn't know what we were doing so we did as much research as we could. Read books, watched film, talked to other coaches, etc. We don't have top track programs/coaches where I'm from, especially in middle or high school. Just talent and potential.
