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That means there would be roughly 3 months (Oct, Nov, Dec) between my GPP and Pre-comp. Shouldn’t I be doing something inbetween those three months? Seems I will be losing a lot sitting around for 3 months.
>Mark
I see what you are saying. Me personally, I don’t know what I would do. Like I said, you could get some friends or something and do mock meets, or if you want to run indoor, only do a couple of meets. I don’t want you to get in trouble.
If you can, give me the date you started training, the last day of last season, how long you want each phase to go, and the dates of some of the indoor meets.
My friends are the “cool” wrestlers and basketball players, so a mock meet is out of the question. It is a great idea though.
I’ll find something to do for the three months, a speed and tempo a few times throughout the month maybe. I will post on the Planning board to see what they think.
As for meets:
Kent’s were in Jan and Mar of this year, but they are the spikeless meet.
Findley’s meets are USATF. There are like 30+ 60m heats, from 8 year old girls with $100 track spikes to 70 year olds. I’ve had the pleasure of sitting through this, and will not again.
Mount Union had one mid-March I would say, but can’t find any information about it.
Oberlin had one or two I think. Field House is in great condition, so that might be worth it. Close too.
My track coach gave me a schedule of all the indoor highschool meets throughout the state, but I think I threw it away, so I can’t give you much better estimations of when the meets were.
The last date of the season was the last week of June, Wednesday (Regional 4x1). I ran on June 9th and 10th, but then slacked off. Sooo… Didn’t start again until the past Tuesday (30th).
Phases-
I haven’t grasped these yet… GPP, Pre Comp, Comp, <insert phase here>, Unloading is the order I think. I have no idea how long they should last or anything. Any help would be great. Send me a PM if you want, cause I’ve made this thread so offtopic of the original question 
Thanks for your help and time 400… It’s much appreciated
>Mark
Hi This is just a side note with regards to weekly trainning
(for the 100m anyway);
In competition phase you need to prepare for the races themselves.
You might want to look at exactly when you’ll be running. In a lot of meets I’ve been to, the rounds run on Friday night and you need to be ready to go again Saturday.
If you are used to putting out 100% and then resting for a day this can cause some apprehension when you show up to the track Saturday after running rounds Friday night. (unless you can cruise through the rounds with no fear of being eliminated like BJ).
If this is the case for you, maybe trainning hard two days and then taking some time off (just doing circulatory work like temp or drills/stretching) for a couple days might work well.
(by trainning “hard” I refer to intensity not excessive reps/sets).
Charlie was always pretty big on how his athletes looked during trainning, if they didn’t have proper lift, or the turnover wasn’t there on a speed day he’d have them take off their spikes.
Your nervous system is generally the best indicator for weekly trainning, so if you are in competition mode, don’t try to stick to your “schedule” if your body isn’t responding.