Henk Kraaijenhof, P.T., B.A. is a performance consultant to international elite athletes in athletics, speed-skating, volleyball, bobsleigh, triathlon, fencing, archery, swimming, tennis, handball and soccer. He has coached individuals and teams to national success in Olympic and world level competition including sprinters Nelli Cooman, Merlene Ottey and Troy Douglas. He is currently technical dir [...]

The new decade is almost here. 2009 was a good one for track and field in general as well as ELITETRACK. The continued dominance of Usain Bolt, Berlin World Championships, no major drug busts, and some of the best sprint performances from both the men and women that have ever been seen. We had some great discussions on the forum as well. In the second annual "Best of ELITETRACK" edition I'd lik [...]

This site is now over 7 years old and the quantity of information on here is growing at an increasingly fast rate. As a result there's potential for many entries to get buried in the clutter. We have an onsite search engine but unfortunately it isn't perfect. There is a better way to find things around here though whether it's an article you read 5 years ago and can no longer find, a forum topi [...]

Thanks to all members (and Usain Bolt's performances at the World Championships) for making August the biggest month on record for ELITETRACK. Every metric for monitoring the use and popularity of the site surpassed previous all-time highs from earlier in 2009. I wished I could have been a bigger contributor in the great discussions during this time but business related duties kept me away for th [...]

We're deep in to the heart of the international track and field schedule now and have only 3 weeks before the start of the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin. The season has had plenty of highlights so far but none greater than the solo fireworks of Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt. Reigning double World Champion, Tyson Gay, has the world leading performances of 9.77 and 19.58 to his credit. Olympic [...]

Earlier this month (on June 10th to be exact) ELITETRACK turned seven years old. I started the site with some simple hard-coded HTML in 2002 as an extension of a class project I had begun as part of my Masters degree curriculum. I purchased the domain name and paid for the hosting service with money that my then fiancée (now wife) gave me to buy a grill as a gift. She still jokes on me about that [...]

Do you have a reason for what you believe and do in training (or life for that matter)? We’ve had some pretty hot debates on ELITETRACK over the past two months ranging from ways to make the sport better and the need of Olympic lifts in training plans, to the role of ethnicity in sprinting. In general, the debaters tend to fall in to two primary groups with a minority diplomatically straddling s [...]

Twitter has entered the public consciousness and it's now impossible to ignore. Whether you like the premise or not there are millions of people on twitter now and it's growth has been faster than every other social networking site in web history. I've been on for about a year and a half (@mikeyoung) and I use it to crowd source ideas, market my business, follow what others are doing and share [...]

Today, May 30th, 2009 is a day Aaron Springer will remember the rest of his life. Today he was part of two relays which received medals at the Illinois State High School Track Meet in Charleston, IL and those two relays played a pivotal part in his team's 3rd place finish and a state trophy. Aaron has been posting his training log on Elitetrack since November, 10th of last year and while his e [...]

My next request to make ELITETRACK better is to rate the articles and blog entries on the site. There are thousands of visitors to the site every day yet the daily blog entries average about 10 ratings a piece since the rating system was implemented. The articles are rated even more infrequently. How is this going to make ELITETRACK better you may wonder? How about these two points:It offers you a [...]