Doesn't add up

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I raced last Saturday and my races were.
100m form felt good but time of 13.89 (wind -0.8) was disappointing and surprising even though PB is 13.48.
200m felt good and I worked harder especially with arm drive. The issue is my time…it looks too quick as it would be a 2.21 secPB :eek: which is a shit load and is faster than my 100m PB x 2…time was listed as 26.42. If they had put 28.42 I would be pleased or 27.42 I would be jumping for joy but it just seems too fast. :confused:

I haven’t seen the full results yet but there were some pretty quick times (admittedly they all seem quick to me :smiley: ), as usual I finished last so I can’t even compare my time against someone I beat and didn’t really notice how far behind next last I finished (I was in lane 8).

Could it just be that I did do that time and should accept it?
Or am I right to be a bit suspicious?

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John, do you have the special endurance work behind you this fall to justify a healthy increase in finess?

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I am an inexperienced Masters athlete and only have a handful of races under my belt but haven’t made any drastic changes to my training recently.

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Hmm. The masters sprinters in my group of similiar experience to you, with PB’s of around 13.5 have 200m PB’s of 27.5 and up. Perhaps you were right to be a bit suspicious, but you never know. You night be born for the 200! The next 200m will tell all.

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my thoughts exactly, in fact I am now thinking of doing a 400m to see how that goes :eek: I haven’t even done one in training because I know what a bastard / killer it is…thought I’d save the experience for a race otherwise I’ll wimp out :smiley: .

Thanks for the reply.

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400 eh? Brave man, but do a few 300’s in training before you tackle that monster!