Because it’s three-fourths of the distance and just because it is 100m lesser, doesn’t mean it’s easy going.
There is pressure of pace and speed that is not in proportion to your timing over a 400m. Of course. It needs to be faster.
But those five seconds faster – say – take the wind out of you. At least for me.
A whole host of the usual track runners ran this. Ashwini, Jeet, Monu, Suryansh and others. The young boy ran alternates.
With such company, I whittled them down, till it was done, nearly each time breaking it down to ever smaller pieces – the first straight, cleaving the bend into two parts, the last hundred home straight into step by step, pushing as much as I could with my core, yet trying to keep it light and free.
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