ELITETRACK Forum

World’s Greatest Athletes

2008-06-21T04:20:54Z

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121392004594090355.html?mod=yhoofront

Saw this on yahoo’s front page...nice to see some track athletes getting some love…

Learning from Mistakes

2008-06-16T04:55:12Z

I was thinking a great way to learn (but sometimes costly) is to learn from mistakes. What is the biggest mistake you have made and what did you learn from it?

Mine was not taking a week to back off every two or three weeks, and I learned how you have to tone down your intensity sometimes.

Northern Schools Competing in NCAAs

2008-06-14T06:40:36Z

I have only been following the NCAAs for two years now but when was the last time two or three teams from what would be considered the colder weather states finished in the top five? I look at the results from this year and last year and have only seen one cold weather team finish in the top five.

Fantasy Athletics 2008

2008-05-26T10:59:35Z

http://game.fantasyathletics.iaaf.org/ifa/

Fantasy Athletics 2008

Those who have entered in the preceding years, can use their old accounts and don’t need to register again.

Go to the site for instructions and rules.

I have created an Elitetrack Buddy League, labeled “ELITETRACK” with pword “apple”

There are also options for a Logo Image, and a Buddy League slogan known to IAAF Fantasy Athletics as “Battle Call”. If anyone has any ideas or a link to an image.

Usain Bolt - 9.76

2008-05-05T01:35:50Z

whoa,
this dude is crazy!
ran the second fastest 100m time in history saturday at the jamaican invitational in 9.76 seconds, with a legal 1.8m/s wind.

I can only hope he’s not taking steroids.
he looks intensely built in the picturesso we’ll have to see.

here’s the article:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/04/sports/athletics4.php

Tyson gay said that he was even impressed with the preformance.
tyson opened with a 20.00, 200m

What do you do when track season is over with?

2008-05-08T03:34:06Z

So what does everyone do once their track season ends and there are no more official school competitions?

Recruiting HS athletes to come out for track

2008-04-02T01:25:08Z

I was wondering what people have done in order to help your numbers at the high school level? I have seen people do display cases, make websites, send letters and go talk to athletes. Any other good ways to get these kids to come out for track instead of playing cracketball for an AAU team or whatever other things they want to specialize in? Just wanting to hear some ideas. Take care.

Say it aint so Mike

2008-04-13T17:05:23Z

Mike, what can you tell us about Dallas Robinson.
I can accept him having a bad race, but the internet is full of speculation.
Can you clarify what is going on?

Pre-meet Travel

2008-03-24T13:11:00Z

As we move into outdoors I’m assuming us northerners will be facing some longer travel plans than we did indoors. How do you deal with flying one day and racing the next?

I’m interested in how people would handle the time interval from de-planing to the start of competition. E.g. how (if at all) do warmup protocols change, length/substance of am “wake-up” session, pre-meet session the day before, etc.

Scenario: Following a couple flights, your athlete arrives in the competition city on Thursday, say 2:00 pm. Competition starts at noon on Friday. Assume you can get to the track and are able to use the facility at any time. Assume no weight room is available.

How would you change things if the athlete didn’t compete until Saturday, therefore having Friday at your disposal as well?

Academics and Athletics

2008-03-18T20:59:35Z

I am finishing up “Confessions of a Spoilsport,” right now and really liked the book. It tells the tale of the Rutgers 1000 and the demise of higher learning at schoools having division 1-a sports.
Personally, I feel that when comparing elitetrack.com to other sports boards and websites that the level of intellect required to understand some concepts is quite a bit higher than for other sites, for example t-nation. I view elitetrack.com as a bridge between the world of athlete-students and the world of student-athletes.
So, I was wondering what everyone’s take on this website is of grades and academics in collegiate and high school sports. I am proud to say that at my community college on a bus ride to a recent meet I noticed that there were at least a few athletes reading books that were not required for a class. And I am even more proud to say that two of them are the best athletes on the team, a high school sub-11 100m runner and a high school sub-15 110 high hurdler.
What causes the gap to grow in between academics and athletics, not just Track and Field but in all sports? For myself, to get better at something I apply the best power I have, not power from my legs like most people have, but the power of knowledge, in hopes that I can understand the technical aspect of an event to a greater level than those around me to give me the competitive edge.
I feel that in Track this gap is not as great as with other sports; but what can we do as the elitetrack.com readers to help bring intelligence back into sports?