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Share This is Part 4 of the weekly “Friday Five” series where I ask 5 tough questions to world class elite coaches. Week 1 was with renowned jumps coach Boo Schexnayder. Week 2 had Dr. Mike Stone of the USOC and NBA and Week 3 was performance specialist Henk Kraaijenhof. Dan Pfaff is the Director [...]
Share I want every 400 meter sprinter to go back in your diary and check how many 400 meter races you have run. That included qualifying races, indoors and relays. I don’t think I have raced more than forty or fifty 400’s in my lifetime. (Some were more memorable than others, trust me!) Count them. [...]
Share The Women’s 4×400 meter Relay at the 2012 World Indoor Championships provided the best race of the meet. The race clearly shows how to run the relay, because anyone can win a relay. Aristotle once said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. This video on YouTube is in my film [...]
Share Costa Rican Nery Brenes had a victory locked up in the men’s 400m at the 2012 Birmingham Grand Prix. I projected a 45.2 or 45.3 performance with an aggressive first 200 meters. But freak accidents occur in the last 50 meters of a 400m, and he accidently stepped on the advertising billboard and crashed. [...]
Share If you are a Clyde Hart fan, you’ll be interested in his 4 set series on Sprint Training and Relays covering 6 DVDs. I’ve seen Clyde in person at several conferences, and the room is always silent with his stories and examples when he talks about his training methods. Clyde Hart’s resume at the [...]
Share 400m hurdler Jeshua Anderson is a 3 Time NCAA Champion from Washington State University. He is also the 2011 US Outdoor Champ where he defeated Bershawn Jackson in a close 3 way finish. You can watch the race here on YouTube. On our Skype call, we talked about his past Millrose performance at 500 [...]
Share Clyde Hart’s 200/400M Sprint Training Program Clyde Hart’s resume at the NCAA and Olympic level proves his method works for the athletes he recruits. I’ve seen Clyde in person at several conferences, and the room is always silent with his stories and examples when he talks about his training methods. This Blog has free [...]
Share LaShawn Merrit will be running the 500 meters at the new and improved Millrose Games. The meet will be held at the NYC Armory, which offers a fast 200m banked track, opposed to the Madison Square Garden 11 laps to the mile (145 meters) wooden boards! Can he break the world record? What is [...]
Share Thanks to Steve P for pointing this out. The chart below shows the 2011 IAAF A & B standards, and the number of male and female, Junior and Youth athletes who made either standards. What does this tell us about the 400 meters? First, note how the men’s 400m standard is doubled best 200m [...]
Share I had the pleasure of speaking with LaShawn Merrit, the 400 meter 2008 Olympic and 2009 Word Championship Gold medalist. We talked about training, and especially Dwayne Miller’s famous “Drill Outs” workout. Miller presented LaShawn’s annual plan at the 2008 SuperClinic. I primarily asked about his 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 season, and that Beijing [...]
Share This is part 3 of the article How to Run Faster… at any Age as we start going into Technical Competency and Sprinting Efficiency. Part 2 talked about the importance of coordination. If I had to name a couple of jargons related to sprinting and how to sprint faster, it would be “dorsiflexion”, “triple [...]
Share Dwayne Miller: World Class 400M Dash (DVD) If you attend the USATF Olympic Trials, they hold a fantastic SuperClinic series on the “rest day break” every year since 1992. The 2012 SuperClinic will be on Tuesday 26 June at the Boulevard Grill on the south end of Franklin, 5 blocks from Hayward Field. The [...]
Share One of the earliest papers I read on 400 meter training was written by William Black from the 1988 Winter edition of TRACK COACH. You can download the PDF here (168Kb). The paper talks about the physiological factors of performance in the 400 meters, and one specific reference was from 1980. It’s a good [...]
Share The Alpe Cermis is the toughest race in the Cross Country Skiing World Cup. It’s the final stage of the Tour de Ski, a 9km course just outside of Trento (Trentino) Italy, with a total climb of 495 meters! Just search Google for photos and videos, and all the skiers literally collapse in exhaustion [...]
Share Racing season is here! Last month, I wrote about How to Run the Indoor 300 or 400 meters. BBC Channel 4 had a good video clip with UK’s Iwan Thomas and Michael Johnson on How to Race the outdoor 400 meters shown during the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Ironically, back in 1998, Iwan [...]
Share Once again, I want to thank @TrackNation for pointing out some useful references. Below is a chart I extracted from the USATF 2008 Men’s 400m Olympic Trials Finals. There are several components you can learn from these results, both in race strategy as well as workout suggestions and guidleines. Source: USATF Splits are just… [...]
Share I created a 12 minute video on How to Run the Indoor 300 or 400 meters. The indoor track competitive season has begun, so if you plan on running a 400 meters indoor, read on. Scroll below, or click here for the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint with the transcript [...]
Share I did a 10 minute video on Calculating 400 meter Potential, giving conversions for 200m, 100m and 60 meter times. The indoor track competitive season has begun, so if you just ran a 60 meter indoor, read on. Scroll below, or click here for the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint [...]
Share Here’s a common question from the mailbag. Do Sprinters breathe when sprinting? The answer is, of course, yes. There are a few pointers on when to breathe (inhale) and when to simply exhale. And when to hold your breath. If you want to read more about deep breathing and its effects, read Deep Breathing [...]
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Lee Evans: A Plea for Help
Share If you are a reader of SpeedEndurance, you don’t need a reminder of who Lee Evans is. On the Track side, he is a 2-time Gold medalist from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 400 meters and 4×400 meter relay. He was the first man to break the 44 second barrier, along with [...]