Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

my high school coach would have us walk back 16 shoe legs and place a cut tennis ball. once the incoming runner reach that tennis ball we would would start running. the problem there was i was slow to accelerate so the incoming runner always run up my butt. i had to move back to 24 steps to be able to have a clean hand-off. once each of the legs individualized our cues we dropped atleast .3 to .5 through our hand offs and we were a relay that were only able to run together 3 times.

gotcha.

With my guys this year, we follow a short, long, short, long method, (leg one hands off early in the zone, leg two carries approx. 115m, leg 3 short, etc.) We do this because there is a large gap between our fastest two and our slowest two. It’s a bit risky, we get close to the edges sometimes, but its proved our fastest times for sure.

I’ve never tried the silent/blind handoff, but willing to try.
The 2nd and 4th leg shouldn’t be a problem, but the second handoff could be shaky getting so close to the end of the zone.

Has anyone who has ever followed the short, long method ever had problems with the silent/blind handoff?

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