RB34
August 14, 2009, 9:10pm
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Great post and all but I think things boil down to weather and facilities for most people. What if you only have a 30m hallway, then you must work on accel and focus on top speed and SE when you can. What if you only have a two week gap btw indoor and outdoor?
Depending on the type of progression (l-s or s-l) certain aspects of the race will develop at different times. It also depends on how you set up you gpp/spp leading up to a season.
If things go according to plan in my spp, then I would expect acceleration and speed to be in place for competition season indoors. Competitions should be used to tweak technical and psychological aspects of the race while tapering down.
For outdoors, I build upon my speed in the 60m and make sure my 100m endurance is in check for the season.
What I personally do is let the competitive season take care of my 200m times in a short to long. Its not completely necessary, I just prefer things that way.
In a long to short, you might not tap into you’re true speed potential until a few races in, but I would imagine it would be the opposite of what I do with my 200m. That is that your 200m endurance should be in place, and you let the competitions take care of the 100m speed.
I’ve found that competition season isn’t the time to be building, its the time to let what you’ve built come to fruition. If you plan properly, you should have no worries come competition season. What I would never do is go into a competition season with poorly prepared speed, acceleration or endurance and expect the competitions to improve them, because competition only offers limited improvements in itself.
Charlie’s SPP video describes this plannification really well. What you’re competition times tell you is how well you’ve prepared/trained leading up to it.