Lashawn Merritt training

[Sam_S]

@rocket_1014

If you look at the splits of the world championship, wariner and merrit had the same split at 300 m. In the past coming off the 300 curve, wariner used to lead and hold on as well. Now he’s dropping a fair bit in the last 100. Where as Merrit is getting more confident, he sees wariner in front or beside him and knows he can get him. Anyway, so I think wariner has to build up his confidence running some fast times (in races where merrit is not running ) and then he will have the belief he had in the past to beat merrit. For now merrit has the edge on wariner. I think 43.5 is close to their best for both of them given their current speed. Merrit has a better chance of running faster than 43.45, purely based on his 200 m time. Wariner is pushing the limit and will be interesting to see if he can run better than 43.45, if his speed remains the same. Will have to wait and see. my $0.02

Given that they are running the same 300m time, with Wariner dropping off, it would follow that Merritt has more speed reserve than Wariner and is therefore doing it easier at that pace. He’s definitely looked a bit skinnier lately (even more than usual) so speed and strength may be the way forward for him - as it would be for most sprinters, I’d say.