Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share Did she or didn’t she? Did Veronica Campbell-Brown false start at the 2011 Jamaican Championships semi-finals? The world of Track and Athletics has come under scrutiny over the past few years. When someone wins, people immediately think drugs. When Caster Semenya loses a race, you wonder if she is losing on purpose. When a [...]
Share What does Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay have to do with Muhammad Ali? Simple. With Tyson not eligible for Team USA for the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, you have to ask when will Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay meet again? The 2012 London Olympics? Can Zurich (i.e. the biggest meet after the World [...]
Share In the world of track and field, we live by two measurements: Time & Distance. Race and training distances are fixed, for example, how fast (i.e. time) you can run a give distance of 300m. Yesterday’s article on Fine Tuning your 400 meter Workouts, Part 2 gave several examples of workouts up to 40 [...]
Share The series started with Training for 400m: Balancing Speed and Special Endurance followed by the article Fine Tuning your 400 meter Workouts, Part 1. So this is really Part 3 of the series. Sorry for the confusion. Coaching is really an art and sometimes you have to make adjustments in the spring or early [...]
Share After 1300 Blog articles, there is still one topic I haven’t addressed. That is: How to Avoid Vomiting or Throwing up after running 400 meters or hard special endurance training session. Actually, the 400 flat is not that painful. It’s the 3 x 325m all out, or split 500’s (300, 200) or even split [...]
Share In a land of secrecy where elite athletes don’t share their secret workouts, let alone their “supplements”, it’s refreshing to see a some elite athletes open up their day to day lives of success and failure. And not about what their dog had for breakfast. Craig Pickering, who could be the next “Great White [...]
Share I try to be unbiased and cover a variety of athlete’s and their respective shoe companies. This gives everyone a chance to explain the different types of spikes and technology for their star athletes. Shoe companies are a multi-billion dollar industry. This video was produced prior to the 2010 Brussels Diamond League meet where [...]
Share This coming weekend is Championship weekend with the Trials for many countries including Jamaica, Canada and the United Sates. If you need extra motivation, read on. Some people like hard rock music before a race to get pumped up for the big event. Some people like a calm surrounding so they can just focus. [...]
Share If there’s one thing I like love about athletes, it’s CONSISTENCY. But for the 100 meters, where the difference is measured fractions, you can say Christophe Lemaitre is “slicing the bologna thin”. And loving it. He ended his season with a 9.97 in Rieti, then recently ran 9.96. Fast forward, and he runs 9.95 [...]
Share I’m feeling a 1994 deja-vu all over again today, with the Vancouver Canucks hockey team losing again in Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup finals. So this post will be about my favorite track stadiums in California and around the world. I’ve been to eight of them with the exception of Spain listed [...]
Share This past weekend’s highlight reel had a lot of good footage to show athletes the importance of the last 10 meters. That is, drive for the tape, stay relaxed, prevent further deceleration (where humanly possible!), and dip at the right time. When the race is 100m, you run for 100m, and every step or [...]
Share By now, everyone is talking about Robby Andrews come-from-behind victory at the 2011 NCAA outdoor Championships (see video below). At first, you can say he was lucky, or that he always had the faith to win (again, see his post race interview) When it comes to a Championship race, I don’t care much for [...]
Share This really isn’t Part 7 on the Warm-up, but it could very well be. Here are 4 previous articles on the warm-up, in case you missed it: Should Sprinters Warm-Up Less, not More? Ian Jeffreys and the RAMP Warm Up Dynamic Warm Up vs. Static Stretching Controversy Valeri Borzov – An Hour Before the [...]
Share This interview was taken on June 9, 2011, two days after his 9.96 100 meter National Record at the Montreuil meeting. Q: Christophe, how was your evening after your second place in the 100m at the Montreuil meeting, behind Jamaican Yohan Blake, which culminated in a new French record? Christophe Lemaître: It was quiet. [...]
Share I’ve always said for a 200m meter prediction, take your season best 100 meter time, doubled, and add or minus 0.2 seconds. You have to go back to the article LetsRun.com asks How is Bolt’s 200m WR almost exactly twice his 100m WR? where I go in detail explaining this extrapolation. Diamond League 2011: [...]
Share For a non-pigeon toed sprinter, the best example of the worse case scenario would have to go to Ato Bolden (see the head-on slow-motion video below with Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin from the 1995 World Championships archives) One of the reasons why Ato runs that way is from his early days playing soccer [...]
Share In the 2011 “Meeting de Montreuil”, Yohan Blake wins the 100 meters in 9.95 seconds but Christophe LemaĂ®tre steals the show establishing a new French record of (9.96) just one hundredths of a second faster than his previous best he established 29 August, 2010 in Rieti. Daniel Bailey took 3rd place in (10.00), and [...]
Share Have you ever failed a course in your life? In life, there is no such thing as co-incidence. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, that failure is your destiny. I always take a bad experience or failure and turn it around to something positive. (Read about my disaster at the 1991 Provincials) Take a [...]
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Share There was a guy named Scott Powell, who used to sing in a Rock and Roll group from 1969 until he left for medical school in 1980 at Columbia University. Today, Dr. Scott Powell is a member of the medical staff of U.S. National Soccer teams, and is the team physician for the Federation [...]