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.
Agree because there is so much to do in the pure speed area and there are huge gains still available through the general fitness area.