MJH KID-SPORTS ARE AWFUL LOG

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3-19-2024 Tue

(2) flying 200m 10'r ..... aka quasi-23-second drill.
super windy. 1st one was a 21.63
2nd DNR

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3-20-2024 Wed

full rest

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3-21-2024 Thurs.

Did some constrast sprints between the sled for 20m,
and then regular sprints with blocks.
Went out to 60m x3 with the regular sprints.

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3-22-2024 Fri

Full Rest

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3-23-2024 Sat. meet

Funny story. He got into the elite division by his (old) seed time for both 100 and 200.
for 100m he was the top seed for the 100 in the seeded-div (intermediate), but then got
bumped up to elite 100 last minute. I guess someone cancelled/scratched.

He did OK. He was up set he didn't go sub 11.
Just 0.06 of current SR...but with less wind.

His 200m (elite, heat 2 of 4) went ok.
Was a SR. and just 0.04 of his all time PR.
Figuring wind, it may be a 'theoretical' PR of sorts.

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3-24-2024 Sun. REST

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3-25-2024 Mon.
<<<START OF "RAMPING THINGS UP.">>>
Go after two 'qualities' in the same session.

Blk Start with sled+10#: 20m x 1 x 6 w/3-4'r

rest a bit

Lactate Tolerance: 3x150m w/4'r predictor
best one yet.
The freelap fucked up rep#2, but I was doing the HH watch too.
I thought the freelap beeped, and blew off what I had on the stopwatch.
So had to write down by memory 10 min after ....but its mostly correct.
First rep was fastest ever @ 15.94.
Last rep was 2nd or 3rd fastest ever, only reps that best were sessions where reps 1 & 2 were way too slow.

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3-26-2024 Tues

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since last post he had a little groin abdbdbddductor strain. So we had to take it easy for a week or so.
He finally went sub 11 barely, but we had a overly (wind aided) good amount of wind ...
Last meet we just ran a leg of the 4x4 to be safe.

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He was upset (with me?) meet before last with his 100m progress, and next meet was completely "indifferent" about his first sub 11 because it was not Wind Legal.

I was pretty devastated when he lashed out at me a bit. He did it right in front of the head coach too. I left and almost cried....

Its funny, I got sucked into ANOTHER training cult thing: like SS is... or say how Crossfit is .... but with sprinting.
I won't name names, there is a speed-guru who preaches a very simple, high intensity, high frequency, but super low volume type of speed development training. It is SO SIMILAR to the SS mentality ..... its fucken scary .... and scary I fell for this shit.

And the guy is so anti-everything-else .... against the typical way sprinters are trained (ex: periodization is unnecessary )
Like SS, its real good for some newbie gains and beginners maybe, OR, if you don't have the time, energy, or resources to do anything else.

Big mistake for me. I really feel bad. Next year will be different.

So if you can imagine .... more of a "periodized" model:

GPP Phase,
-lots (well some) tempo (extenstive tempo),
-not so much focus on maxV ...but a little
-focus on accel in the way of power, sleds, weights, hills, etc

Transition Phase
- extensive tempo becomes intensive tempo
- a little more MaxV (30m flys)
- more specific acceleration work (blocks)

Precomp. Phase
- intensive tempo becomes lactate workotus
- maxV w/ speed endurance
- race modelling

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4-23-2024

Season is going pretty bad.
The (new) head coach informed MJ and I that he would have to compete in the open 400 and the 4x4, as well as his 100 and 200.
In his opinion, that is the best way for the team to score points....and we have a (very slim, in my mind) chance to win a championship.
....problem is MJ would have to run FOUR 400's in two days.... prelims for both 400's. And 2 x 100, and 2x200.
Its insane, and we have been training for this scenario.....coach dropped this bomb on us about 5-6 days about.
Divisionals is in a week and a half. So about 3 weeks to prepare and get in a crazy-kind-of-shape he has never been before.
We would have trained completely differently if we have know we were going to do this.

MJ accepted the challenge the coach put on him.
We both kinda know this will ruin his chanve for gold in 100 and 200 .... he'll be wasted after the prelims.

For context: Last year he did: 100,200,4x4 prelims; 100, 200, 4x4 finals.
We were able to sort of job our 4x4 prelim last year we were that good.

This year, I had planned to do: 100, 4x1, 200, (some alternate kid run the 4x4 for him) prelims; and the 100,4x1,200,4x4 finals.
So with all that said, we have shifted away from speed work and blocks quite a bit, adding more tempo work, conditioning, lactic power workouts, and what not ..... but intelligently.

Also he had been academically suspended for a couple of meets.
One meet he did not have a good time, was sick or something, could barely run the 4x1 and 200 (2nd, silver), and couldn't do the 4x4.

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The team has terrible attitudes except for 4 or 5 kids.
MJ, Dereck, Max, John, Noah all try hard, train, take it seriously, workout on their own when the can't make practice.
About 2 or 3 other kids do 'ok' with regards to effort, but just aren't gifted enough athletically to bump the needle.

The rest of the team is straight up trash, effort wise.
The stories are incredible .... too much too write here.
Maybe I will write it all up later **



I doubt the new head coach will be back next year. The place is terrible.