Short to Long Sprint Training

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@fogelson

I’m going by what Glen Mills “said” in an interview for this year, after saying that they did 2009 a bit different with Bolt being late to start back-up training and what not. Did I say it was clear cut? No. I mean, the whole basis for what anyone is calling short-to-long or long-to-short essentially amounts to what Mills has said and whether or not he ran a 100m race before a 200m race and whether or not he did some starts, so I don’t think either is exactly a well founded position. If you look at the workouts posted, it seems quite ‘tempo based’ in nature with very high volumes of moderate tempo pr CSW or whatever you want to call it type work on grass. He ran a 44.low relay leg in early winter (after supposedly starting up training only in November or so after substantial rest), so it is not as-if the guy isn’t doing a very significant work over longer distances relatively early in his program.

Play dumb? Not actually dumb? I wouldn’t be surprised. A friend of mine saw a large stable of American athletes in SoCal over spring break, seeing each workout for the entire 8-9 days he was there. He is a long distance guy, but from what he told me, I am not sure I would consider anything they were doing “smart” (people taking breaks between drills to talk on cell phones for long periods of time, coach going off and not watching people’s runs, etc.). This isn’t exactly rocket science and it isn’t like Glen Mills started coaching in 2008 (hell, he was coaching Bolt for 2007 as well).

I guess every NCAA program does S2L if you based it around starts. Don’t know too many programs who aren’t doing starts within the first 2 months.