[Jay Turner]

Jay Turner on February 16, 2010 at 5:28 am #16532

During a Special Endurance session, should you ALWAYS practice race modeling? Is race modeling the whole point of SE?

For years I’ve had my 400m runners just run all out for the given distance, never giving thought to race modeling. I’m kinda bothered because I may have been doing my quarter-milers a disservice. If this is true, how has this affected them (regardless of negatively or positively)?

[Eric Broadbent]

Eric Broadbent on February 17, 2010 at 2:36 pm #94838

I don’t know if you want to always do it or not but I do know that we have been doing it quite a bit this year and I have really enjoyed it. We have done a lot of take the first 50 out hard… maintain…bring in the last 50-100 depending on the rep. Haven’t done any 400’s yet this yr but I have a feeling its going to help. I wouldn’t worry too much about not having done it thus far with your 400 guys, but I feel like the way that it has helped me is feeling what it should feel like in a race as apposed to just hearing my coach tell me what to do and practicing it strictly at meets.