Veronica Campbell-Brown PRs at 400 meters

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All four WRs in the pure sprints are held by people who trained from 400m strength. Flojo held NCAA titles at 200 and 400 before she was known as a 100m sprinter, and Bolt is similar of course.

All legal times faster than Ben’s (18, I think) have been accomplished through an overdistance base or concurrent at least as long as 300.

People that are strength or football oriented may not be fond of 300s and longer, but the evidence in favor is pretty much overwhelming if you want to compete at a high level as a sprinter. The training for 100m has become almost ridiculously hard, but it seems that what you have to do is obtain the fitness of a world class 400m runner…and THEN you go short to long.

Everybody does overdistance and has been doing it pretty much forever. Most just don’t do crap like 800’s at the start of training anymore. Those slow ass jog 400’s that Asafa does at the start of every season has no bearing on his 100’s. No secrets there.

Even Donovan Bailey, who says he only ran 150 and less in training did a few 200’s. And Pfaff will include longer tempo and Int tempo runs at the beginning of the year…sames as everybody else.