Its been a while, but I’ve been logging training data. I think things are finally back on track for me. Progress is coming quite nicely, and its looking like I will finally break through this plateau I’ve been at for years.
My season opener a few weeks ago was hampered by calf cramps in both and still managed to finish the heat in 7.08.
2 weeks later I raced in Montreal, ran 7.00s in the heats and 7.01s in the final. I had a really shitty start in the final, I usually always run faster in the final unless something technical breaks down. I’ve got a few weeks to train until my next competition and I’m fairly confident things are headed in the low 6.9s but only time will tell.
I’ve collected some good data on strength training, with volumes, intensities and strength improvements. Plyos with volumes, intensities and improvements in jump height/contact times. Speed times, I’ve logged in all my fly’s over the past month and will continue to collect it for the next month.
The key for me thus far has been an improvement in reactive strength and pushing a quality amount of speed volume. Using the gates I can safely gauge what is too much work and what is the perfect amount. I try to push how much work I’m actually doing without a drop in intensity.
I’m hoping to present all this data at the end of my season for review. It’ll look pretty neat with some good volume and intensity graphs from my workouts.
Until then, its back to sprinting and getting to the low 6.9s.