“Good to Great” Book – Analogies to Track and Field

I just read a great business book by Jim Collins called Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

It has a great overview on companies getting to the next level, but it has better analogies that you can apply to everyday life.

Even Track and Field.

Here are the 5 key elements from [...]

Vince Anderson’s Sprint Acceleration and Maximum Velocity

This summary was written by Richie Mercado

Vince Anderson – Sprint Acceleration – USA (University of Tennessee)

Introduction

Most American athletes come in with misunderstandings of technique and the goals of sprinting. For example, many fail to understand that they must power out of the blocks instead of going for speed! Coaches have to be careful to get [...]

Maurice Greene 52 sub-10 Second 100 Meters

Longevity in Track and Field is rare, indeed. If you time it right, an 8 year career can span 3 Olympics.
One has to look at Carl Lewis and Al Oerter to see remarkable athletes competing in 4 Olympiads… 5 if you include making the 1980 National team.
On the womens side, there’s Irena Szewinska, Jackie [...]

Fastest 40 Yard Dash Time?

The shortest distance the IAAF recognizes for indoor world record performances is the 50 meters (approx 54 yards) run in 5.56 seconds set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. The irony is he was considered a poor starter!
The current world record for 60 meters is 6.39 seconds set twice by American Maurice Greene [...]

Top 10 Sprint Races – #8 – Maurice Greene 9.79 in Athens 1999

Maurice Greene breaks the world record in 100 meters.

In June 1999 Maurice Greene set a “new” 100-meter world record of 9.79 seconds, becoming the “first” man to run sub 9.80.
Of course, Ben Johnson ran 9.79 11 years earlier at the 1988 Olympic Games, was later disqualifiled, and the new world record was reverted [...]