Unless you have systematic programs, allowing them to do summer track with a club may simply get them significantly more running than they'd otherwise get. But if they would otherwise run very significant base, then this will hamper their xc season.
Unless you have systematic programs, allowing them to do summer track with a club may simply get them significantly more running than they'd otherwise get. But if they would otherwise run very significant base, then this will hamper their xc season.
Dr. Wu wrote:
Actually, that's exactly why.
It simply isn't. We're 40 years further along than we were back then and we understand the science better. Look at the All time lists. For the mile, the period of LSD produced no sub-4s in high school. It was interval heavy 60s training, and now smart, balanced training that has produced the fastest times. The only HS distance records set between 1965 and 2001 are steeplechases, the 10k, and the Marathon for boys and the 10k and marathon for girls. Mainly events that aren't even contested at the HS level.
So my next question is my athletes just finished a spring season of training and just tapered for state qualifiers...
Now if they go into summer track (6-8 week season), how should they be trained? I mean should they continue a taper or jump back into some tempo/rep work for 4 weeks...then taper again?
I just want to make sure they are getting the correct training.
The 2M record was set by Jeff Nelson around 1979 in 8:36. That lasted until German Fernandez and then Verzbicas broke it.
The 800m record was broken a number of times in that period, including by Kersh and I think Granville.
In fact, until 2001-the present, the great era in terms of depth and world level performances, both in hs and after, was the 1970s and early 1980s.
Bumping because I'm a HS runner considering tacking another three or four weeks onto my track season. I currently have a foot injury that's preventing me from running with only three weeks left in my spring outdoor season, and summer track would give me more chances to get my times down once I'm recovered.
The plan would be to run two or three AAU meets and be done with track by the end of June. In July I would ramp up the mileage to build up for XC, which starts in mid-August. I'm an 800m/mile specialist, not a long-distance type, so XC itself would serve as somewhat of a base phase too. Rather than have a full track season in the summer, it would be more like extending the spring season a few weeks. Is this a good idea?
No way. Distance and striders
Most XC kids peak in early October. So why not extend track season through July, recover in August, build base through end of Aug to September essentially shifting everything back 6 weeks?
untimely injury wrote:
Bumping because I'm a HS runner considering tacking another three or four weeks onto my track season. I currently have a foot injury that's preventing me from running with only three weeks left in my spring outdoor season, and summer track would give me more chances to get my times down once I'm recovered.
The plan would be to run two or three AAU meets and be done with track by the end of June. In July I would ramp up the mileage to build up for XC, which starts in mid-August. I'm an 800m/mile specialist, not a long-distance type, so XC itself would serve as somewhat of a base phase too. Rather than have a full track season in the summer, it would be more like extending the spring season a few weeks. Is this a good idea?
extending your season is the last thing you want if injured. Focus on xc
According to the usatf distance school it takes 20 weeks to fully develop your aerobic system. You need to figure out your goals for your athletes. Personally I would be careful who's coaching my athlete in the summer. I don't want conflict nor my athletes second guessing me as often happens. I want them to have a low key stress free summer of running and training. I once inherited a team where some of the kids went from outdoor track to a jackass summer club coach who actually said that it only took him 5 weeks of intense track work to get the kids to race fast. No kidding. He bad mouthed the previous coaches telling the kids intensity not volume us what they need. But they had lousy xc seasons and seeds of discontent were further planted and they had no faith in the school I took over coaching. Be careful and if you do give your kids over to someone else discuss goals with that coach.