Preparing for the Home Stretch in the 400m Sprint

"DARREN STORR: Hi, my name is Darren Storr on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to run a 400-meter sprint. Once you're on the homestretch, it's all about guts. The 400 meters is the most gutsiest race in track and field. So once you can maintain for 300 meters and you come off the curb into 100 meters, you have to learn to run relaxed, which I mean--what I mean by that is running relaxed helps you run faster. The more you run relaxed, the more you can run faster. And like I said, this place has psychological advantage over most runners because the homestretch is where most runners, or most athletes break down, start to get tightened up, their muscles starts cramping, so if you can maintain on the homestretch you can pretty much run a good race."