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How do the tactics work? What's to stop Farah going out to run his best possible time in any given race?
This is what I don't get about athletics either. Surely athletes know the optimum speed that they can cover any distance, albeit the conditions might play into it?

If you know how quickly you can get round then go for it.

I heard someone say after an event recently that the Olympics would be different because it would be much slower and more tactical - run as quickly as you can then and forget about the rest of them!