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Share Here is a slow motion rail-cam view from the 2011 Monaco Diamond League Men’s100 meters. It’s a great instructional video, and there are a lot of take home messages and a few aha moments too. Just a recap, we have Nesta Carter on the outside lane with a blazing start, and Usain Bolt is [...]
Share Mike Conley: Triple Jump (DVD) Here’s an oldie, but goodie. And highly recommended to anyone who wants to Triple Jump. This VHS cassette from 1991 was one of the first coaching films I purchased, and now it’s great to see it on DVD. When you have names like Mike Conley and Dick Booth, these [...]
Share What the heck is Complete Speed Training for Sprinters? Athlete Acceleration’s Complete Speed Training for Sprinters is a complete resource for Track & Field athletes, coaches and parents. It’s NOT an ebook NOR digital download NOR online videos. It’s 9 hours of video totaling 11 DVDs and manual delivered directly to your door. Normally [...]
Share Talk about slicing the bologna thin! Christophe Lemaitre produced yet another a new French National record and personal best for the 100m after clocking 9.92secs to win France’s National Championships. However, the wind was a suspicious +2.0 m/s. I know many years back meet directors would have someone stand in front of the wind [...]
Share World Championships are 5 weeks away! Scroll below for the video and results. Facebook and RSS readers, click here. If you want to see how Usain Bolt wins the race, fast forward to 4:54 of the video and see the slo-mo side-angle where Bolt is behind, but makes up inches on every stride. Talk [...]
Share Many thanks to Ken Stone who covered these 400 meter races on his MastersTrack Blog. It always inspires me to see a 35 year old running times capable of winning some College meets, or a 40 year old capable of winning local OPEN meets. Or my fellow countryman Michael Sherar running 51 point at [...]
Share Part 1 started with Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting which showed the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 of this series was covered in How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. So this is Part 3. I want to review strength and resistance [...]
Share Yesterday’s post on What is a Swedish Relay? deserves a few videos. The USA team, comprising of Youth athletes (i.e. U18 or under 18), came very close in breaking the WR with their 1:49.47 performance. The first exchange is critical as it is occurring at near top speed (100 to 200). As expected, Japan, [...]
Share Why is the world in love with Christophe Lemaitre? I hope it’s because he represents fresh, raw, young talent and not because of the colour of his skin. If you watch his Rome 100 meter race against Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, Christophe Lemaitre actually stays beside Bolt up until the final 10 meters. [...]
Share Last fall, I hailed the India’s Women’s 4x400m relay as the greatest race of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Perhaps it was one of the greatest races in ALL of 2010 with Usain Bolt having an off year. Nobody expected India to medal, let alone win a gold. Even the TV commentator ruled them out [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
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Robby Andrews NCAA 800m – Smart Race or Just Lucky?
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 [...]