Yezzy wrote:
My 60m to 100m conversion makes no sense! Could this be a muscle fiber issue? There is slow twitch, fast twitch and very fast twitch (fast twitch II). Is it possible I have a lot of very fast twitch fibers but a low amount of normal fast twitch fibers? Or is this just a fitness issue? I have speed, I have endurance (well, a bit of endurance lol) but absolutely NO speed endurance.
Yes I think it may be a fiberquestion, but also about the interaction betweeen different systems in your body.
40 years ago I was fairly good for my agegroup (14/15years) at 800 m, and I was comparatively good at 60 meters, sucked at 100 m, not too bad at 200 (24.8), sucked at 400 at timetrials (do not remember but maybe 58 seconds) and then 2:04:8 at 800 meters and also 9:28 for the 3000.
The last years I have read a lot about training, and one of the major things I have learned is that you become good at what you train for.
Coming from a soccerbackground I was good at accelerations (60 meters, ) but lacked the ability to keep topspeed (bad 100 meters), I had good form and ran smooth quite fast (good 200 meters) but never trained for longer sprints (bad 400 meters), but did a lot of endurance running and endurance intervals (800 m).
So. You have trained your topspeed, 60 meters are better, you have improved your endurance, but how much have you trained for specific 400 meter speedendurance?
I would suggest sometimes intervals (not repeats) of 200-300 meters, and then other times a lot of repeats at 200 / 250 and 300 meters.
That is what I would do, but I am no coach.
Good luck.