I am writing this post wondering if someone can offer some suggestions to why my times have flattened arent gettin any better, i have been doing sprinting for 4years seriouly now but lately i have had quite a few comps where i have competed in the 100metres, about 5weeks ago i ran a pb(.1 faster than my previous) this time came out of nowhere as my time had all been about .3 off this in all other races, while in this race i felt the feeling of floating across the ground i had read about this in the training for speed book and knew it was the way you were suppose to feel, but in the many races following where i expected to achive similar result i have been unable to recapture this ‘floating feeling’ and my times once again slumped back to .3behind what i had achived in my p.b, i have been contemplating it alot and trying to find how i got to this feeling in this race, and came to the conclusion that in the races folwing i had been presurised and lost my relaxation and tightened up, and thought that the reason i couldnt regain this form was because i was not running over the ground i was runing into it, i thought it may have something to do with shortness of stride or something of the like, i was just hoping some1 experieced on this would be able to give me some feedback in order to help regain the floating feeling
I know exactly what you mean about the floating feeling but i think that just happens when everything in your training is good and you have prepared for it. When you are rested but psyched up yet relaxed.
Basically you can’t run pbs every race. You need to periodise your training and plan your whole season around peaking. Racing race after race after race won’t cut it past a certain training age. Race when you are ready and i’m sure you will regain this feeling and improve. I reckon planning is your problem. Reread the chapters on periodisation in CFTS and start talking to your coach about choosing some good competitions to peak for and plan from there for next season.
TC
thanx for the feedback, as suspected today in another regional competition,(i have had 4 split up days of competiting in this past week) i had the 200metres i knew that from the start of my warm-up that i felt stale and flat when doing runthroughs, i belive it is because of the constant compteition of the last week and alot of training in leading up. so when the race did begin i went out aroudn the bend wich is usally my strong point with no progression watsoever agenst the U18 competitors and on the straight had nothing else to acelerate with either. i have state championships in under 4weeks and am belviing that in this coming week i need to rest of sprint training and recover and regenrate my body and just do some lite joggin and road runs, do u think this is the best thing to do this close to state chapionships??
I would maintain the intensity (~90%) on the things that I know work for me, but drastically reduce the volume, at least for the next week, as fatigue seems to be your main problem at the moment. Then build up from there with champ/p as your main focus.
Tempo (e.g., relaxed 100s on grass with rather short recoveries with total volume of 2 km tops), yes; long runs, no!
Hope this helps!