The weather sucked all last week. This week was just plain cold.
Last week we did
Mon: 2x4x150 (rest was jog, walk, jog, set rest)
Tuesday: Tempo
Wed 5x200 in come home pace. I ball park it since I don’t know everyones personal best yet. I’m pretty good at estimating my group. For most this is intensive tempo work and for the older kids, specific work for finishing strong in the 200/400
Thur: tempo
Fri: tempo (scheduled acceleration day on wed, but had to move it to today, then went to tempo when several kids complained of excessive tightness in calf and quads. Obviously most have not done much over winter so this is expected.)
Sat/Sun: Off
Mon: Sprint ladder (modified due to ice on one complete turn) 200, 150, 100, 50, 40, 30, 20
Tues: indoor mat tempo, 2 x 10 x 30 seconds (30 sec rest was one of the ab circuit exercises) one person ran, one person did abs at same time, then switched.
Wed: 2x300+150. Today was cold but with only a few runs, we rested inside the team lockeroom by the track during the set break. Overall great workout considering the temperatures
Thur: tempo
Fri: warm-up and baton work for meet tomorrow
Sat: meet (various distances, 60, 200, 400)
This past week I did modify some a bit for indoor group.
Monday my sprinters and girl hurdlers were in the halls doing short speed work 3x30, 3x40, 3x50 (rep 1, standing, rep 2, block, rep 3 flying 30 with 20m run up) all with full recovery.
Tuesday mat tempo (boy hurdlers did our half space to race pace progression over 3 hurdles instead and used Monday as a tempo day)
Wed: 3x20, 3x30, 2x EFE 20-20-20-,2x FEF 20-20-20 (girl hurdlers did work over 2 hurdles to prep for sat race)
Thursday" tempo (boy hurdlers did one last hurdle workout similar to Tuesday)
Friday": warm up
sat: Race
Saturday March 23 meet report:
Overall great day. I saw continued progress with me #2 hurdler, setting another PR today at 8.85. He started in Jan at 9.20.
In the girls 4x200, 2 distance girls ran solid 28 splits. Last year my girls 4x200 ran 28-27s towards end of the year. One of those girls ran a 28 as well.
In the girls 4x400, my grade 9/10 team from the spring is all back. 2 girls ran today, 2 seconds off their outdoor PR. Very exciting, considering one girl has only trained hard 2 weeks.
The boys 4x200 was good as well. Two guys ran mid 23s indoors. Last year they PRd at high 22s. One was switched out due to a bit of tightness, but he is surely capable of same times, and the top hurdler is capable of breaking 22 this year. I think they have a chance to medal at state finals.
The boys 4x400 was great as well. Kids ran near PRs. We are in need of a 4x400 team, with only one member returning (the hurdler who ran 48-49 splits last year for us at anchor, and has 300h PB of 38.1). 2 kids ran 55-56 range. One has only done short to long work all winter. Very impressed with times so far. We are off 17 days for training. A lot to get done! Excitement builds for the season ahead. We may not win a championship this year, but seeing kids hit PRs and run well is just as rewarding for me as a coach.
One last note, my long jumper from last year PRd today jumped 20-1.5" taking 3rd. His best last year was low 19s. He spent most winter in weight room and has great pop off the board. His flight mechanics and landing is not great, but throughout 6 jumps, improved his landing a bunch, improving over a 12" from this first jump.