A former athlete asked me a few questions on behalf of her roommate via text. Edited for clarity. Pre-race and post-race meals. Cori: So you’re supposed to have pasta the [ … ]
Category: Track & Field
Warm-up Routine
If you haven’t yet received the memo, here it is: gone are the days of spending the first 15 minutes of practice doing static stretching. Basically, the research says doing [ … ]
Track Tidbit #4
Don’t be afraid to be creative with your relay order. The unwritten rule is to start a relay with your second faster runner, hand off to your third fastest, followed [ … ]
Track Tidbit #3
Don’t bother with 4×100 splits. If you already agree with this sentiment, I’m probably not going to say anything you haven’t already a millions times yourself. If you do still [ … ]
Track Tidbit #2
Cut in gradually in races with a one-turn stagger.
It boggles me how few athletes do this, but I constantly preach it with my runners. Feel free to double check my math, but in the diagram here (not to scale) we are assuming that the break-line following a one-turn stagger is about 90m to the 200m mark. The blue line represents a sharp cut-in and the red line represents a gradual cut-in.