• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Click here to download the  free ebook of Alberto Juantorena’s  detailed training workouts leading up to the 1976 Montreal Olympics

SpeedEndurance.com

Success in Track & Field ... and Life

  • Home
    • About
    • Contact
  • Track & Field
    • 400 meters
    • 800m & Mile
    • 1/2 & Full Marathons
    • Long & Triple Jump
    • Hurdles
  • Training
    • Weight Training
    • Abs & Core
    • Injury Prevention
    • Shoes & Spikes
    • Masters
  • Coaching
    • Freelap Friday Five
    • Interviews
    • Sports Nutrition
    • Sport Psychology
  • Archives
  • Shop
    • My account
    • Checkout
    • Basket

10K Runner Galen Rupp Joins Sprint Coach Brooks Johnson

You are here: Home / Coaching / 10K Runner Galen Rupp Joins Sprint Coach Brooks Johnson
1
SHARES
FacebookTwitter

April 13, 2008 by Jimson Lee Leave a Comment

Last Updated on January 9, 2009 by Jimson Lee

I love it when distance runners wake up and smell the coffee.

It All Comes Down to Pure Speed

From Oregon Live:

Galen Rupp, on leave from the Oregon track team while preparing his bid for the U.S. Olympic team in the 10,000 meters, plans to go to Orlando, Fla., to spend quality time with sprint guru Brooks Johnson.

Johnson, a former head coach at Stanford, is a year-round U.S. Olympic coach who primarily works with the relay teams. His expertise in the science of biomechanics is a resource that Rupp, Adam and Kara Goucher, Josh Rohatinsky and Amy Begley — who train with Nike Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar — hope to tap.

Salazar said Johnson wants to introduce drills and strengthening techniques to focus on the hamstrings and gluteal muscles. Combined with speed work Rupp put in this winter, it could translate into more power and acceleration at the end of the 25-lap 10,000 meters.

“We’re leaving no stone unturned,” Rupp said.

It comes down to how fast you run your 100 meter time. Here are some famous Track and Field theoretical conversions:

  • 800m = double your 400 meter time and add 10 seconds
  • 400m = double your 200 meter time and add 3.5 seconds
  • 200m = double your 100 meter time and add or substract +/- 0.2 seconds
  • 100m = enter your 60 meter extrapolation here

Do you prefer the other way around? Okay, do a One Mile time trial, then use these conversions:

  • 5Km = (Mile time + 33 sec) x 3.1 miles
  • 10Km = (Mile time x 1.15 ) x 6.21 miles
  • Half Marathon = (Mile time x 1.2 ) x 13.1 miles
  • Marathon = (Mile time x 1.3 ) x 26.2 miles

The faster your Mile time, the faster your Marathon, assuming you do the mileage! The faster your 800 meters, the faster your mile. Get the picture?

My good friends Jonathan Dugas and Ross Tucker wrote a recent article on close Marathon finishes:

However an examination of just Berlin, Boston, NYC, and Chicago shows that close finishes occur quite frequently. As the archives are limited, we have examined only these races and only back 10 or so years for Chicago and London. Yet out of the approximately 100 races we have analyzed, 25% have been decided by 10 seconds or less, fully one quarter of the finishes!

You see, it all comes down to a sprint! Some races come down to the last 100 meters! Imagine running for 2 hours (at a sub 5 minute per mile pace) and it comes down to a sprint! Those quads must hurt like hell the next day or two days later when the soreness really sets in… and it’s not lactic acid!

I won’t even stress the importance of a 40 yard dash for football scouts or even 60 yard dash (180 feet) to test baseball players!

The moral of the story is to find a good speed coach, and hone those speed skills. You don’t have to beat your competitors by 10 meters, you just have to beat them by a nose.

See also  Training 800 Meter Runners

Category iconCoaching,  Track & Field,  Witty Tag icon100 meters,  Mile,  Nike,  relay,  speed

About Jimson Lee

I am a Masters Athlete and Coach currently based in London UK. My other projects include the Bud Winter Foundation, writer for the IAAF New Studies in Athletics Journal (NSA) and a member of the Track & Field Writers of America.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xbs-aWxyLk

Shop Our Store

  • Bud Winter (9)
  • Championship Productions (6)
  • Clyde Hart (2)
  • Derek Hansen (1)
  • Electrical Muscle Stimulation (2)
  • Jim Hiserman (6)
  • Jimson Lee (4)
  • Uncategorised (0)

Articles by Category

Products

  • Jim Hiserman - Developing 800m Runners: Identifying, Categorizing and Developing 400m-800m Type Athletes $42.99 $39.99
  • Private Coaching - Monthly Plan $600.00 $525.00
  • Jim Hiserman-Developing-Distance-Runnersv2 Jim Hiserman - Developing Distance Runners Volume 2: A Systematic Approach to Developing Individual Success within a Dynamic Team Culture $34.95 $29.95
  • Feed-the-Cats-Clinic-3-Pack-701 'Feed the Cats' Clinic 3-Pack $64.99
  • Tony Holler's Feed the Cats": A Complete Sprint Training Program Tony Holler's "Feed the Cats" Complete Sprint Training Program $49.99
  • Bud Winter and Speed City presents Arthur Lydiard 509x716 Bud Winter & Arthur Lydiard MP3 [Download only] $9.99

RECENT POSTS

  • Oregon22 Coaches Club now Online
  • IFAC 2022: The Return of In-Person Conferences (with Virtual option)
  • Here is our 400m Discussion Recording… over 2 Hours Long
  • The Best Free Coaching Book – post Beijing 2022 Olympics
  • The Ultimate 400m Track Webinar for Coaches & Athletes
  • NACAC Athletics Coaching Science Series 2022
  • Top Six 400m Predictor Workouts (Number 4 is my Favourite)
  • Best 6 Podcasts for 2021 (and Beyond)
  • Why Karsten Warholm’s 45.94 400mH WR is my Highlight of 2021
  • Sprinting: 10 Research Articles for Effective Sprint Training [Part 23]

Copyright © 2023. SpeedEndurance.com is owned and operated by Aryta Ltd. Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}