I urge you to get the SPP lecture series to understand how to map out a plan for your specific needs and competition schedule. My plans are interesting to allow you to see a solution to the scheduling into world championships at the world record level but are not directly applicable to all situations. you need the tools to work with and I tried to provide them with the SPP Lectures.
Good post James thanks. I guess for me the main frustration is that Iām just a self coached athlete who runs a small business and I donāt have much time to figure things out on my own.
I have about 4-5 good years left to run and to possibly make it pro then my time is over. I donāt care to become famous our rich I just want to end my running career with good PRs and at least make it to the Olympic trials in 2012 (end of world date lol). If I felt as though I did not have the talent I would not have put myself though a decade of sacrifice and discomfort.
Anyhow, I do consider myself lucky however because I came across charlie methods before I got too old or before I cashed in my chips so at least I can go to the grave in peace knowing that I gave myself the best possible chance to succeed.
Not to many people can say that, because when I look around, many people give up on there dreams very early in game.
Iām not sure that I can effectively put into words my own frustration with the coaching industry. One example being the lack of, according to my definition, qualified coaches out there.
Iām not looking for an argument with that statement. Itās my professional opinion.
Itās disappointing to me, for instance, that you are without a coach.
Iāve had the same discussion with RB34.
As far as Iām concerned, athletic potential that goes untapped due to a lack of accessible and qualified coaching is a travesty.
Start off easy and see how things progress. You should see nice improvement after the first few weeks. Keep volume low at first. It goes a long way. I had a baseball guy drop his 60 times by over 0.2 doing 1 speed workout a week, with workouts similar to posted earlier. Itās not as hard as you may think at your level.
If someone were to use the split runs as you have it here (2 sets of 5x60m) would they comeback to the longer runs later in the season? Im looking at my vanc 04 graph and the spec. end 1 graph finishes the 12 week spp with 150s Sorry to but in this discussion but Im trying to think of a way to prgress 60m split runs for endurance since the track that I will have access to is a rectangular mondo track (a real pain in the ass or achillies in my case!!!)
Yep, and to add insult in injury there are abundant unused acres of training grounds, new tracks surrounded by fresh cut manicured grass and clean weight rooms that I personally see never get used!
In my area pretty much every HS/Collage has there own track and I NEVER see anybody use it. Every time Iām out there Iām the only guy using it.
As a matter of fact I just found another track in my area that is BRAND NEW and itās so nice I never want to leave the D$M track when I go there.
Here is a news clip of the track; its all finished and lucky me it only takes me 8 minutes to get there!
Im trying to think of a way to prgress 60m split runs for endurance since the track that I will have access to is a rectangular mondo track (a real pain in the ass or achillies in my case!!!)