Acc Dev in GPP

I recently attended a IAAF course, excellently presented by one of the forum members, and heard it yet again (without going into the s-l, l-s agrument): to develope speed you have to develope speed first. You need speed before speed endurance or anything further than that can be done.

The plan as I read this is that you want to make him quicker over the 200m, yet I don’t see to much speed developement work. You asked where acceleration could fit in. I would make acceleration the main focus, not simply have it fit in. If you watch GPP essentials this is much the focus there too.

I would start by taking the intensive tempo out, imho intensive tempo is dead anyway. The time he has to run it in is roughly 85% of the speed that you want him to run at, I don’t believe, except if I missed something, that that will improve his speed. I believe in s-l and would introduce the longer runs later.

Build the speed base first. I would do acceleration work on the Wednesday and Friday maybe, and later do MaxV work in one of the acceleration sessions. Or maybe Sunday and Wednesday. I think that if you want to do a long run it should be for recovery, so I don’t see why it should be after a rest day.

In order to drop from 22.7 to 22.0 I believe the athlete needs to be able to get to 95%+ at the pace needed to run 22.0, then he needs to be able to to hold that for a very long time. I would approach the training in that way.

These are my ideas but I may be way off. I would like to see Charlie and Kitkat’s opinions.