Are you saying your lack of strength around the knee or having too much strength limited you? I read it as “too much strength around the knee limited your output around the hip”. If so, this is very interesting. I read an article a few months ago that tried to distinguish elite sprinters from sub-elite sprinters by discriminating on anatomical differences. One statistical correlation that popped up was elite sprinters tend to have a higher ratio of upper thigh circumference measurement to lower thigh measurement than do sub-elite sprinters. The higher the ratio, the larger the difference in muscle mass between hip area hams and knee area hams. My thought then was that elite sprinters simly tended to have bigger thighs. Perhaps its not that their thighs are bigger, but that there is more of a difference in upper hams vs lower hams. I’ll reread.