Coach to Sprinter: "I want you to lower your arm stroke to bring your knees up"

The last High School meet of the season, “The BorderDuel”, which has the top High School track athletes from Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, was yesterday. My daughter ran the open 400m and did well.

Track practice ended 2 weeks ago after she finished at Regionals.
For the past 2 weeks I have had her working to the workouts she did last year.
This meet still counts as a High School meet, and part of the 2012 season.

A cool day in Portland, Oregon and of course, it started raining before the 400m race, a big downpour up until the seconds before the race started.

My daughter in lane #6, running in the open 400m race:

http://youtu.be/XxqRdrZFJGc

She has learned alot just from this race, such as:

Even though she angled her blocks towards the inside of the lane (she proudly says “coach Tony Veney taught me that”) She needs to make sure she comes straight out of the blocks, as she came out shooting towards the outside of the lane and had to reposition.

At the first 100m point she started to slow down, she said she thought she got too far out front and was going to pace herself with the other girls…she ended up having to try to catch up instead.

If anyone can see things that need help with, please feel free to post.

This was a very good race for her, she said she felt stronger running through the second turn and felt she had more left after the turn and…

She bested her previous PR by a Half second.

She ran 59.47, trying beat her High School’s freshman record of 59.11, as this meet counted as a High School meet in season.

She is very happy with her time and is looking forward to summer AAU/USATF track to see if she can keep up with the PR’s.

Except for the 2 meets that she was feeling lethargic because of running the previous day/days, she has PR’ed in every consecutive open 400m race this year:

1:01.17a April 7

1:00.70 April 26

1:02.82 April 28 (2 days earlier: PR’ed in open 400m, ran 4x100m, 4x400m, open 200m. felt lethargic for this meet)

1:00.40 May 3

1:00.35 May 11

59.92 May 18 State Regional

1:01.64 May 19 State Regional Final(PR’ed 17 hours earlier, the previous day, less than 7 hours sleep, felt lethargic, no energy)

59.47 June 2