cues for short strider ?

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I am very strong, very powerful, and reasonably mobile\flexible athlete, however I only run 11.5 for the 100 at the moment, everytime I feel like i am NOT GOING FORWARD, then it annoys me and i tense up and take short quick steps instead…

A change in mindset is a must here, what i am doing isnt working, same feel every race… in training its much better most of the times.

I figured next race and in training i will just think about this:

" stretch backside and thrust it forwards, repeat "

" stretch backside and thrust it forwards, repeat "

" stretch backside and thrust it forwards, repeat "

When i’m thinking about stretching the back leg, and then thrusting if forward over the knee in practice i look great… even my tempo runs look faster than my races that way, but theres alot of thinking involved… thats why i am confused.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you

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when is ur next race

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2 weeks … had one yesterday… another 11.61… im pretty much stable on around 11.5…

footage from yesterday’s 11.61 soon… so you can all see what im talking about…

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“step over and drive down” is what i tell my frequency folks. if that doesn’t work go with my favorite cue … “F@#$ it, just run”.

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along with some of the lower body cues is to make sure that one gets a proper and complete arm action-through the full range of motion.