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Share Last year, Tasha Danvers interviewed Tyree Washington on her radio show. Great Britain’s Natasha “Tasha” Danvers is the Olympic bronze medalist from the 400m Hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It’s a long interview, almost 90 minutes long (you may want to fast forward the first four minutes). Tyree Washington has a special place [...]
Share At the 2010 Gibson Relays, Usain Bolt ran an impressive 400m anchor leg making up more than 20 meters, but it wasn’t enough to win against a strong University of Technology team. Bolt’s anchor leg split was 43.58 seconds. Listen to the crowd as 15,000 spectators stand and cheer on their feet as he [...]
Share NOTE: Some of my older guest posts on other Websites are now being shut down due to the economic climate. Thus I will present them here. How much do the tight indoor curves affect your performance? Even with the banked curves to counteract the centripetal forces, it does affect your stride length and stride [...]
Share Bill Bowerman is more famous for co-founding NIKE and coaching long distance runners, but he did coach sprinters and field events. I covered Harry Jerome and Otis Davis in previous articles. From his book Bill Bowerman’s High-Performance Training for Track and Field (Third Edition) he compares the training patterns of Stan Wright, Jim Bush, [...]
Share In my last article about the Harry Jerome, Bill Bowerman and the University of Oregon connection, I didn’t mention Otis Davis, the Rome 1960 400 meter and USA 4x400m Olympic Champion. I am currently in Rome, so there is a special connection every time I visit the Rome Olympic Stadium, whether it’s for the [...]
Share If the number forty-three-point-one-eight (43.18) doesn’t mean anything to you, then you aren’t a real Quarter-miler. One day, that number (or lower) will be the 100 meter freestyle swim record. It was ten years ago today, Michael Johnson set the Men’s 400-meter world record in Seville. Michael Johnson should have demolished the 400 World [...]
Share When Michael Johnson became the first man to win the 200-400 double at the same Olympics, a lot of people didn’t know that feat was accomplished TWICE by a female athlete. USA’s Valerie Brisco-Hooks did it in the Eastern Boycott Olympic Games of Los Angeles in 1984. Then Marie-Jose Perec of France did it [...]
Share Interesting email from the USATF this week. Relay selections has always been a center of controversy ever since the 1936 Olympics. Prior to 1936, the 4x100m relay pool was a special group of athletes outside of the individual 100 meter athletes. Then, usually the medal winners at the Trials plus the 4th place finisher [...]
Share The post on the CIS indoor 4×200 meter relay showed some interesting analysis on how to properly exchange batons for a relay. April is around the corner, and that means Relay season. Penn, Drake, Texas… you name it! I prefer to use a visual exchange for both 4×200 and 4x400m relay. The 1968 USA [...]
Share The world is still buzzing about Sebastian Bayer’s 8.71m Long Jump on his 6th and final jump. And it wasn’t performed with a fancy 2-and-a-half hitch kick either. Here’s a good question for Track and Field Coaches: In the long jump and triple jump, should you try to win the jump on your first [...]
Share The IAAF article can be found here. Click here to download the PDF file. How were these splits recorded? Transponder antennas were laid under the track at the 0m, 100m, 200m and 300m. Athletes wore chips on the inside of their front bib numbers, so when they crossed the transponder threshold, a time was [...]
Share This study showed the kinetic parameters at 150m and 350m during a 400m race. The male subject was the 44.94 by Thomas Schönlebe and the female subject was the 48.56 by Marita Koch. The study was from “Incidenza dell’allenamento di forza su alcuni aspetti structurali delle prestazioni dei velocisti – esperienze degli allenatori della [...]
Share Click here for What is Speed Reserve? Part 1 – 400 meter Sprinter types The news of Usain Bolt going after the 400 WR in 2010 inspired me to write this article. What is Speed Reserve? Speed Reserve, or Anaerobic Speed Reserve (ASR), is simply the difference between your maximum speed and your maximum [...]
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