200m/100m and 400m/200m Ratios

[dartfish]

@kitkat1

So how does your ratio help you figure when you fade over the last 100m of a 400m that your problem is lack of speed or lack of endurance? Or lack of pace judgement (perhaps in the first 100m), or poor balance (working too much through the quads, insufficient through the posterior chain early so you have nothing in the quads to run out the final 100m). Not being critical of you or anyone else, just saying why I dont like formulae.

Quincy Watts 43.5/20.5=2.12
Jeremy Wariner 43.45/20.19=2.15
Allyson Felix 49.7/21.81=2.27

Pietro Mennea 19.72/10.01 = 1.97

There is no one-size-fits-all anything.