Based on his best so far this year, 9.88 against Gay, the 10.42 is almost 95% on the money.
So while I know you were being sarcastic in your post; in reality, even though this 10.42 is something of a bust at first glance, relative to what we’d all like to see, it still qualifies as ‘speed development’ relative to his best this year.
On that note, while the 9.88 is nothing compared to what he’s done in the past it is the most he’s done in quite a while. Thus, in this regard the 10.42 just days later doesn’t seem as much of an eyebrow raiser as the 9.88, again relative to his current readiness/preparedness, is much more of a CNS stress then it would have been last year.
Perhaps then it was by design- maybe an instruction of Francis- as the 95% would still qualify as a meaningful enough CNS stimulus to count towards the 18 relative to his preparation this season.
I see what you’re saying, but what about his training? I mean there must be a sh*t load of sub-max work throughout the year to have him ready from that perspective. Cause I believed up to this point that it was the maximal effort speed work that he needed ?