Currently my 200m PB is at a 23.7 and I can’t seem to get below this. I run the 100 in 11.14 and i know ofr a fact that my 200 should be faster than what it is now. It just seems that i am at a plateau right now. Can anybody tell me how i can break my barrier and get my 200 time where it should be? I personally think that I can’t run the turns wel so can i get any info on how to run turns well also? thanks!
Ideally you should be low-mid 22’s with a 100 time like that.
do you get really tense? Go too hard from the blocks? Lock up at the end?
Splits would help 
Top speed problems?
I go all out the whoel race, generally, i do feel tense nearthe end of the race. my arms don’t open up like they do for the 100. I will try to get splits when I can, my nextm eeti s the league meet saturday, i’ll get splits then.
could be a speed endurance problem. what do you do for speed endurance in training? what are your training distances and volume? when you race, what is the rest of the field doing in the last 50m? are you fading, or are you pulling them in?
Definitely could be a speed endurance problem. Even if you were going too hard out the blocks and trying to go all out the whole way, 11.14 doesn’t match with 23.7. Even with mistakes you should still be in the mid to high 22’s. I think you have to work on your base training, special and speed endurance, where are you in your season, it may be too late to really get out of the 200 what you should be able to next season. Do you ever run the 400?
hows your overall fitness level? doing your tempo?
Just a suggestion… Maybe your strategy is wrong? I have this link that has Ato Boldon talking about his 200m strategy but I cant get it to open. Maybe it will work on your PC.
P.S. Before everyone jumps me for telling him to copy Ato… It’s just a suggestion 
Good luck
http://www.eurosport.com/home/pages/v3/l0/s6/e5821/multimedia_lng0_spo6_evt5821.shtml
Here is a suggestion of how you can run the 200 based on your fitness. I did this and it improved my 200m drastically. For starters if you fitness level is low get out hard for 50m, relax for 50m, then as you come off the curve sprint again. You will finish the race harder. As your fitness level gets better you will be able to sprint longer and relax less.
When I say relax, I don’t mean that you are slowing down, you are just running fast without expending any energy to do so.
This took my 200 time down .4 from beginning to end of the season. The only difference was that I ran 21.18 at the end of the season shutting down 50m out from the finish.
It probably is speed and special endurance problem, but in the 100 I break away from everybody after 60 meters. Our coach has us do extesnive and intensive tempo for practice and uses our meets as speed days. I used to run the 400 off and on last year but this year I only ran it on a relay and that was it. It may be too late now but I got my first summer meet in june and I have 3 weeks from when my season might be over or not.
Maybe u need to do some SE specific to a 200m - something like a 250m - 2 weeks of 1 rep 250 for SE mid season fixed my final 50m last year.
It’s a bit hard to gauge for pace and they end up being more like 95-98% but they do the trick ( just prepare urself for some serious pain afterwards )
This link will give an estimate of what ur time controls should be - http://www.drtrack.com/CoachingEducation/ControlsForSprinters.shtml
Good luck
It is a good suggestion, i like this Clip.
Fabio,
what is your 150m PB ? and 250m ?
I am not sure what my 150 and 250 PB’s are. I took them awhiel ago, the last time i had my 150 timed it was around 17-18’s and that was during the fall and my 250 was around 28 and that was fall too so they wouldn’t be credible.
you can’t run a 150 on 17,18 and then run a 250 on 28. you CAN’T. I do 28 flat in the 250 while I’ve got 21.56 elec. in the 200m. Its as easy as that. Test them again and make sure you’re running from the right marks
like i said, I ran them in the fall, and did them easuring good, the timing wasb ad because i had ot time them while i was running so they should be taken for a grain of salt.i’ll test them when i have the week wiht no meetsl eading to districts
This is like the strategy that I use now over the 200m. I still like to compete but due to lack of training time my speed endurance doesn’t match my speed. So I find that over 200m I can hit the wall hard in the final 30 or so metres. And the race is first over the line, not off the bend.
I tried out the strategy that drivephase talked about and looked on that HSI website and at the league meet I ran a 23.4 in the 200, lost about 3 tenths of a second which is good progress.
Congratulations !!
Keep improving !! ( practising )
Same strategy I use…
Basically I think you need to consciously breathe from the start. Make it a priority as you are accelerating and rounding the bend.
200m running is about running near maximal speed for the duration of the race.
A). Run as hard as possible (11.0 on curve and die)
B). Run effortlessly (11.1 on curve and hold form to the end)
I believe if you focus on running fast and breathing to relax this will assist a little. If there was a video to analysis it would make life a lot easier (eg running form, stride freq, stride length, split times).
Cheers