Speed endurance the key to *all* 11/12second sprinters?

[Charlie_Francis]

@fogelson

From PJ:

Pardon me, but how are either of these workouts extensive tempo? The breaks are far longer than any recommended, relatively fast, and done on the track, in spikes IIRC. I think they are about as clear of an example of intensive tempo as one could get. If that isn’t intensive tempo, then nothing is.

Also, Bolt as consistently behind at the start UNTIL the WC. I am not talking about his first few races, but all of them.

When breaks are 8 and 12 min, basically full recovery for the pace of work done, it isn’t any kind of tempo at all, it’s Speed Endurance work. The effort level of the speed work may take it down a notch but that’s what it is.
Tempo work can be described as incomplete recoveries within reps and sets.
It was my understanding though that he did 2 sets of 300,180,150 at a much more moderate pace earlier on in the season with short recoveries, and the pace decribed there would have been extensive.