Well, the timing situation is that US Nationals are two weeks from this coming weekend, and we have races every week through that period. I wasn’t planning on going (not close enough to winning if you’re around 10.2 to make it worth the cost) but I’m rethinking that now, and obviously, I’d love to schedule the peak for the 20-27 of this month if possible.
I was thinking about having a race-like training session (3X50+100 all with long rest) midweek, then a real 100m race next weekend (and not racing 200 in any of these meets), followed by the major taper for supercompensation–trying to make it similar to what you did with Ben with races every 3 days for the overload, then supercompensation into WC off that.
From what you’re saying, if I do this again at the end of SPP2 next year (and I will, unless the performances fall off or I get injured in the next couple of weeks), I’ll need to schedule this a bit earlier in SPP, which means a shorter SPP going into it, in order to have the 3 weeks of training coming out.
What I see from John Smith isn’t anything like this. HSI has a two week cut down to comp which is basically an exponential taper. It goes from 4 workouts (and 4 weights before track) in the last week of SPP, to 2 workouts and 2 weight sessions in the first week of the taper, then 1 workout and one start session in the second week of the taper. After this everything is submax not over 80m and starts, with only the race on the weekend being high intensity. What you’re seeing right now from Carmelita Jeter is coming out of this kind of thing: She did a lot of work on starts during indoors, then a lot of overdistance after indoors with 400 meter races the first 2 weeks of April–and the fastest time in the world for 100m at Mt. Sac. Now, Carmelita has beaten the Jamaicans and run ~10.85w…twice.