Archive for July 2013
Drugs in Sport- Is Track Screwed and how to clean it up
Today was drug Sunday. If you haven’t been living under a rock, the first big name to fall was American record holder Tyson Gay. The man who was supposed to challenge Bolt tested positive for an unknown substance. Following that up, 5 Jamaican athletes including former WR holder Asafa Powell will miss the world championships…
Read MoreA Peek Inside- Training log of Ciaran O’Lionaird in build up to 3:54 mile
In speaking at a couple coaching clinics this summer, one of the things that struck me was how many people came up to me and would talk about the HS training logs I posted on here. They’d talk about how after reading my training philosophies and then seeing the logs, it helped conceptualize things quite…
Read MoreBlind Feedback Workouts- Why feedback matters and how to ignore it
Times, splits, seconds, minutes. They are so ingrained in our head as runners, sometime cruelly, that we cannot escape them. We become slaves to watch and knowing exactly where we are during every workout and every race. But what happens if we take it all away? The role of feedback in performance is an intriguing…
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