Question for CF:

[Pioneer]

@Charlie_Francis

Depends on the programs approach (S-to-L or L-to-S), how long the comp period was, how the weather is currently there, and the importance of the early meets. IE, if you have a L-to-S approach and you will open with 200m only first, you have more options to fit in longer stuff but in either case, it is a good time to use split runs because you can get to the pace you need virtually right away.
If the athletes are showing tiredness from an extensive comp period, you’d want more tempo GPP type work and less speed or SE though there’s no time to get into a real GPP phase now.
Try to work out a way to get a 10day period of lower CNS stress/grass work at the end of the indoor meets and fill in the blanks working back from the conference meet. you can always fine tune it from there. I wouldn’t be too worried about training losses as the meets do count for training.
BTW, what’s the temp there now?

S to L. Comp period was very short. Jan 16 until Feb 27.

At the present moment, it is snowing and 31 degrees F but typically not the case- it’s usually decent enough to go outside here in Western NC-where you put on a seminar actually.

I guess the importance of early meets is only that there are four consecutive meets on as many weekends, one week end off then conference the following weekend. I hate the way it is so compressed but that’s how it is.

Re:Hills since it has been since about mid to late November since doing those and we’ve done no sled pulls at all this school year 08/09, would it be wise to go back to hills just to improve or touch on acceleration ability or would that be unnecessary?