Many top athletes get to jet off to California, South Africa, the Carribean for there warm weather training. I got to go to Swindon yesterday. Gorgeous sunshine - just about perfect conditions,
Did about 2 hours of hurdling. Long warm up, stretching and drills. Then lots of drills over hurdles. Started on the lower hurdles then moved up to the 3 footers. I don't want to get lured into thinking the low ones are normal.
The main session was over the first 3 hurdles. Short lead in the up to full pace. Working on different stride patterns and different positions in the lane. Hurdle 2 is crucial. I tried 17s fairly comfortably, but end up on the outside of the lane trying to lose the half a stride. Then went to 16s an I'm really stretching to make it.
Did a few of these, but the legs were still tired from Saturday. Need to experiment with this over the next few weeks. I'd like to do 16s to 5 to try and conserve energy and give me a better flow over the first part of the race.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Warm weather training
Posted by
HarrierCoach
at
7:36 AM
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment