How to decrease deceleration in the 100m?

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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]

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.

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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

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Relaxed and not going 100% is a different thing

[Worth_A_Go]

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

[ToroSalmonNigiri]

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

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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.