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Share Time for some clarifications on last week’s article On Top End Speed and Speed Endurance. In the article Usain Bolt 100m 10 meter Splits and Speed Endurance, I wrote at the time 0.83 was the fastest record split before Usain Bolt ran 0.82 (from 50-80m) at the 2008 Beijing OG. He subsequently ran 0.81 [...]
Share I’ve always said the Relay is like the Irving Berlin song… Anything Goes… The 4x400m meter relay at the 2010 World Indoor Championships (WIC) in Doha were no exception. Every time you line up for the finals, you have to believe you can win or medal. It doesn’t matter if you are sandwiched between [...]
Share It’s time to update who has the most sub 10 second 100 meters of all time. The 2010 summer season is only halfway, and at the time of this post, Asafa Powell’s season best was at the Rome Diamond League. Hopefully Asafa will keep running into 2012 (age 29) and possibly 2016 (age 33). [...]
Share Anyone who watches Usain Bolt before any race will notice he is loose and confident before every race. In a big pressure race of the Olympics or World Championships, he’s playing and smiling to the crowd, while others are focused, staring at the finish line or staring at their belly buttons. Asafa Powell, who [...]
Share When doing time trials during testing week, should you run alone, or as a group? My early days with Coach Dennis Barrett were always in a group to simulate a race condition. Some of us didn’t use starting blocks because our Club only owned two! As an Alan Wells fan, I would say “screw [...]
Share Like Victor Conte, Ben Johnson news won’t go away. No matter how much of an anti-drug person you are (i.e. LetsRun.com) every time they make a media presence, they make noise. And that noise may be irritating to you. Who can forget Ben Johnson’s 9.79 in Seoul 1988? I’ll bet a lot of you [...]
Share The past articles on my visit to Rieti and David Rudisha’s 400/800 performance brought on a few emails asking the obvious question: Where Are The Videos? Okay, here they are. I decided to use some high tech server technology and use the JWPlayer to display MP4 files instead of the usual FLV (my apologies [...]
Share Remember when Justin Gatlin was a household name? Why not? He won the 100 meter gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games when Asafa Powell was considered the favourite. This NIKE commercial was shot in the spring of 2006 prior to the announcement of his eight-year ban from track and field. That didn’t stop [...]
Share The International Olympic Committee (IOC) just launched The Best of Us Challenge, a global competition in which ordinary individuals compete against their peers and Olympic athletes such as Asafa Powell, Lolo Jones, pole vaulters Steve Hooker & Yelena Isinbyeva and multi-eventer Carolina Kluft. Yes, it even includes Michael Phelps! It’s all for a [...]
Share Can you imagine having a 17 year old male sprinter on your team who runs 11.45 for 100 meters, then the following year as a Junior he runs 10.50. 10.30 is the IAAF “A” standard so you dare to write him off as “Nah, he’ll never be a world class sprinter” kind of attitude. [...]
Share Did anyone notice the arm action in Usain Bolt’s 200m on the straightaway? And how it slightly differed compared to the last 40 meters of his 100 meters? This brings up the topic of arm action in sprinting. Famous Canadian Track Coach Geoff Gowan would say, “You run with your arms on your legs”. [...]
Share Complete meet information for the IAAF Grand Prix meet in Rieti, Italy can be found here. Asafa Powell set the 100m WR of 9.74 on September 9, 2007 in Rieti, Italy. Videos of that meet shows a very sparse crown in the hills of Italy. Remember, Asafa ran 9.77 three times. The WR lasted [...]
Share Imagine if someone said to the Jamaican 4x100m Team: “You can’t win, all you have is Usain Bolt”. Afterwards, in victory of course, Jamaica would reply: “All you need is Usain Bolt”. In Zurich, 45 minutes after his 9.81 100 meter victory, we finally get a chance to see Bolt run the Anchor. Bolt [...]
Share Usain Bolt 9.81 Weltklasse Zurich Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? How tired is this human after his 19.19 200m World Record? His “weak” 4x100m relay leg showed he was human after all! Will he just go for the win against fellow countryman Asafa Powell? UPDATE: Check back on this site in a [...]
Share Usain Bolt Berlin World Championships Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? That seems to be the question these days, barring unfortunate weather conditions. His 10.03 jogging the last 60 meters in the Quarter-Finals made me believe he is ready for another world record. He appeared to relax (while the rest of the field [...]
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Performance vs Maintenance: When Do You Quit Sprinting?
Share The recent talk about Tyson Gay’s injuries leads me to ask the question: When should you stop thinking of “performance”, and focus on “maintenance”? Or perhaps move up in distance? After Tyson Gay scratched out of the 100 meters semi finals, people suggested he retire, or that he only has “two or three” good [...]