In track training, most of our workouts are centered around distances. Run 6 x 200m, 8 x 150m, etc. This makes good sense and is easy to standardize, make comparisons, and track the progress of training. The problem though is that success in track is judged by time not distance. So I was thinking...what if you made all (or some) of your workouts time based rather than distance based. While I alrea [...]

Did anyone else watch last night's Democratic Presidential debate on CNN? It wasn't the standard fare debate. Sure it had the usual canned questions but this one actually had some substantive battles and quite a bit of drama. How does this relate to a track and field site? Because as I was watching, I thought to myself- "this thing is like a great indoor 400m race." Some people got out real ha [...]

The indoor season has officially started and I'm sad to say that even though it's only been a week long, I've already witnessed some very poor cases of race distribution. Some of them were my athletes, some were not. Perhaps it because it's the early season and athletes aren't truly race fit for the events they've been placed in? Perhaps it's because some athletes don't fully comprehend th [...]

This post may not appeal to many of you that are not involved with Track & Field. This represents a close to 40 year obsession with the 400 meter event. this is an approach that I have used throughout the years with real good results. It certainly is not a traditional approach.The thinking behind this is to take a fresh look at race distribution in order to take full advantage of the athlete&rsquo [...]

Sacramento, CA- The last day of track at the NCAAChampionships was ahot one. I actually can't recall a better NCAA Championship for sprintperformances. What's amazing is that most of the top performers arecoming from underclassman. A perfect example of the underclassmanshining was the men's 200m. Sophomore Wallace Spearmon (Arkansas),Frosh Xavier Carter (LSU) and Senior Tyson Gay entered the f [...]