What did we learn at Believe and Achieve Meet

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain...
- Vivian Greene

All athletes improved on their previous time trial, congrats all.  But why the quote?

After their race every athlete told me what went wrong with their race; why it wasn't perfect.  Olympic athletes never have a perfect race.  They have a race plan and they execute it. You have all shown huge improvements technically in the last 3 months but; when the gun went you forgot it all!!!

For the December meet we will have race plans and practice executing them.

So what should a sprint race look like?  How do I execute?

1. Block set up (you all have your set up - PG do not try a new setup on race day!)
2. Starting block clearance (press back on blocks - zero step)
3. Acceleration phase (body angle - knee to chest and drive back behind - longer ground contact times)
4. Transition from acceleration phase to max velocity/top speed)
5. Top speed/speed maintenace (high knee/force application/relaxed)

  
Remeber the drills in training where we put cones every 15-20mtrs and practice the different stages in the race; now we will execute in a race.

It was a great day out; thanks to Aisling for the great bakes; thanks to the athletes for teaching me the dab and a huge thank you to Believe and Achieve for  a great meet in a great facility.

Results are posted on link below. 

RESULTS