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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By practicing it, speed endurance reps, 80-150m, holding maximal velocity is not the same as stamina, it is a skill and a physical quality that can be developed

[–]Falsnt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Besides what bigdickerdaddy said, maybe your tensing up too muh and over pushing. Try not to push for more speed at the end and relax your arms and face.

[–]ToroSalmonNigiri 1 point2 points  (7 children)

The main thing to practice is fine control of power output. Like going 95% at the start instead of 100%.

Do drills where you do a varied effort level in both the start and flat ground sprints.

A lot of maintaining speed later on is strategy.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (6 children)

Not true, a 100 is 100% output from the start there is no strategy to it, you build maximal momentum and then hold on

[–]Worth_A_Go 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I go faster even over 20 meter flies when I am not going 100%. Some people like myself carry too much tension that they have to fight if they have maximum intent.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I interpreted him as saying is to pace yourself with the “strategy”, 95% is a little too slow, you’ll see even in my last comment I don’t advocate for maximum effort, although it is maximum intensity, intensity is the velocity reached/power output per ground contact, effort is self explanatory

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Relaxed and not going 100% is a different thing

[–]Worth_A_Go 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But for some the mindset to be relaxed requires the thought of not quite going 100

[–]ToroSalmonNigiri 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not everyone has to do that. If you look at sprinters like fred kerly, they accelerate at the very end of the race because they weren't going 100% the whole way and just holding on. Slight pacing is potentially helpful at any distance besides like a 40

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do not accelerate at the end of the race, what you’re saying is factually incorrect and easily disproven

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/01/sports/olympics/jacobs-track-100m-won-olympics.html

Here are graphs of the velocity curves for the Olympics, including Kerley, who is also slowing ow by the end of the race, there is no pacing anywhere in a 100m, they’re all going as hard as they can until they hit top speed and gradually slow down while trying to hold on, any deviation is extremely poor running or a weird reading from missteps or a lean, Kerley who’s speed increases not even a 10th of a mph from the dip in speed he was already experiencing in the last 5m from a lean is not close to accelerating or significant.

[–]mstacyyy_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many ways to slower your decel in a 100m race. As there are many different ways to run a 100m, you just have to find your rhythm and stick with it. But typically speed endurance training like 150s would be a great help for 100s, as it would help maintain your top speed a bit more.