trackhead wrote:
guys like Greene and Johnson run (and did run) over 30mpw. That's more than some of the "runners" on this board.
Very different training styles. Clyde Hart's guys can get to 30+ (fall only), or more than some 800 guys. John Smith's different. Early season training (January)from a seminar given by Smith:
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Monday:
1. Warm up and Drills
2. 3 (3 x 60)
3. 300 / 200 or 2 x 250 or 3 x 200
Tuesday:
1. Warm up
2. Starts
3. Relays
Wednesday:
1. Warm up
2. 3 x 300 or 3 x 250 or 5 x 150 or 3 (3x80)
Thursday:
1. Warm up
2. Starts
3. Relays
Friday:
Rest if competing or
4 x 4 x 40 Meters W/ 90 second R/R (5 minutes between sets)
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Charlie Francis would have some aerobic volume, from 10X100 @70% three times a week for 100 guys to 4K aerobic three times a week for 800 guys like me. But we are definitely not talking 30 mpw here.
As to the main topic of this thread, just about every true sprinter would agree. I'm kind of in both worlds since I'm with Charlie, but my main event is 800 (I do 60/100/200 during indoors). But if you go anywhere that sprinters hang out, you won't find ANYONE referring to themselves as a "runner." For someone competing in 100, that's almost a deragatory term. As in someone too slow to sprint. We're NOT runners. We're SPRINTERS.