question about allan wells training

[Sharmer]

@kitkat1

Many years ago Loren Seagrave told me he thought one of the things he brought to athletics coaching was his insights and some movement ideas gained from his own background in ice skating: hockey maybe, can’t remember now. As an aside, when you go to Oslo you see lots of speed skaters etc walking in deep, slow lunges around the track doing their summer training for their ice season…

However, I do suspect the ice work may be of greater help to an athletics sprinter in taking the bend, rather than any other aspect of the track sprint.

Short track ice work would be more specific for the bend. Long track speed skating involves 100m straights. The elite guys do break 10s for the first 100m, the first 10m is literally a sprint on Ice with speed skates.