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Share This is a summary of all the articles for July 2010 sorted by topic. Duplicates may occur if an article has multiple categories. 400 Meters 400 meters: Forget Usain Bolt, Here is Jermaine Gonzales PODCAST – Jared Deacon 400 meter Training Interview Coaching The Comeback? Masters Attrition Rate and Goals Jerome Drayton – [...]
Share Without the Americans and the Jamaicans, the media has been playing the Christophe Lemaitre vs Dwain Chambers hype all week. At the 2010 European Athletics Championships, four men finished in 10.18, yet another reason to lean at the finish line. Crowd favorite Christophe Lemaitre wins in 10.11. In addition, maybe he’ll get an invite [...]
Share 50,000 athletes in Torino for the 2013 World Masters Games… just 3 YEARS away! TORINO-TURIN — Torino will be hosting the eighth edition of the World Masters Games, the summer games for sportspeople aged from 35 to 100+ years in August 2013. The event – called by Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Comune [...]
Share Are you ready for some football? Football is around the corner. Actually, it’s already here when you count the off season. Track coaches who coach multi-sport athletes such a American football will love this complete program as it resembles Track and Field due to the speed, power and strength requirements. Duane Carlisle, the Head [...]
Share Time for some clarifications on last week’s article On Top End Speed and Speed Endurance. In the article Usain Bolt 100m 10 meter Splits and Speed Endurance, I wrote at the time 0.83 was the fastest record split before Usain Bolt ran 0.82 (from 50-80m) at the 2008 Beijing OG. He subsequently ran 0.81 [...]
Share While this Blog is focused on sprinting and speed endurance events, I do enjoy researching training plans from various sports including marathons as I coach a couple of corporate executives for the marathon distance. It gives me an excuse to go to Death Valley every year. Growing up in Canada in the 1970’s, Jerome [...]
Share I’ve always said the Relay is like the Irving Berlin song… Anything Goes… The 4x400m meter relay at the 2010 World Indoor Championships (WIC) in Doha were no exception. Every time you line up for the finals, you have to believe you can win or medal. It doesn’t matter if you are sandwiched between [...]
Share On the eve before Usain Bolt’s 9.58 WR in Berlin 2009, the St. Kitts and Nevis newspaper The Labour Spokesman wrote about the showdown between Bolt and Tyson Gay. It was written by Peter Adrian and can be found here. Eventually, Tyson Gay did run 9.69, the exact same time Usain Bolt ran in [...]
Share Before the Internet, Track fans were at the mercy of Track & Field News or Sports Illustrated for two month old news at the newsstand. I even remember paying $5 a month for ESPN email alerts back in 1993 to my Freenet account! Sports Illustrated archives, better known as Sports Illustrated Vault is a [...]
Share . Lance Brauman: 16 Speed and Power Drills for Sprints (DVD) Lance Brauman: 30 Speed and Power Drills for the Hurdles (DVD) If you liked the previous article or DVD on Lance Brauman, you’ll like this one. This recording took place at the USATF Conference in Dec 2009 in Orlando. I like his overall [...]
Share After all the hard training and countless hours of drills to perfect your running technique, the difference between winning and losing may come down to the difference in the food you eat and TECHNOLOGY. Namely, your track spikes and the clothes you wear. First, we had had the sprinter’s full body suits for aerodynamics. [...]
Share Last winter, I predicted 5 of players from NCAA Football with Track backgrounds on how fast they would fare at the NFL Combine. I was mostly interested in the speed, power and strength components. Most notable athletes include Trindon Holiday, Jacoby Ford and CJ Spiller. For those who are interested in seeing their 40 [...]
Share ASICS Japan Lite-Ning 3 – Mens – Black/Silver/Onyx ASICS Japan Lite-Ning 3 – Mens – White/Red/Silver The ASICS® Japan Lite-Ning’s (get the joke? Lightning? where’s Bolt?) latest model is out and somehow they skipped version 2 of this model and came out with version 3. The manufacturer specifies this spike is ideal for sprint [...]
Share It wasn’t long ago when Puma signed Usain Bolt back in 2003 as a 17 year old. Puma tried to capitalize on the success after his famous 9.69 and 19.30 in Beijing 2008, but the only “Usain Bolt” merchandise available was his famous signature Bolt Arms lightning bolt pose. Even after Berlin 2009, he [...]
Share Jared Deacon is currently the UKA Development Coach for Sprints and Hurdles at Loughborough High Performance Centre. I never met Jared, but hopefully I will soon when I go visit fellow Canuck Derek Evely who is the Director at the same venue. Like several well known coaches, he was an athlete first with a [...]
Share I am surprised of the hype surrounding France’s Christophe Lemaitre. Yes, he did run 9.98 with a legal wind on Friday, and yes, he is white or Caucasian (or non-African decent if you want to get picky), but the real surprise is just turned 20 years old, and technically speaking his running form leaves [...]
Share SOURCE: from telegraph.co.uk In his first race in 42 days since being ordered to rest by his doctor, the triple Olympic champion returned with bang at Thursday night’s Samsung Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, triumphing in 9.82sec to equal Asafa Powell’s fastest time in the world this year in Rome. Moments later, he was [...]
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400 meters: Forget Usain Bolt, Here is Jermaine Gonzales
Share What do you get when you have Usain Bolt as a teammate, Glen Mills as the head coach with former 400 meter Olympian Bert Cameron as a coach? Coupled that with being a taller than average height for a sprinter (1.90m or 6 foot 3 inches)? Ecco Jermaine Gonzales… Jermaine Gonzales ran 44.63 last [...]