Darren A Coaching

As a coach I try and spend my time purely and solely on the improvement the athletes under my instructions.   Although occasionally you need to get involved in the other side of the sport, including officialdom and politics, if you believe it is for the benefit of the athletes in your care. The sport has had a bit of an issue with a timing mechanism.   This issue has spread a bit by wild fire when the official results appeared to be slower than the training times, hand times and video analysis suggested of athletes.   These comments moved on to social media, mainly Facebook, and where fuelled by the sprint fraternity, of which I am one, with athletes performing three tenths of second slower in similar conditions   than they did in previous weeks. I personally was involved in these conversations, trying to ask questions and be positive as the last thing I want to happen is for the volunteer officials to leave the sport (some of them are also friends).   Below is a release by the orga

Firstly, I apologise for only getting one blog done in Jannuary - life got a bit busy. The season is getting towards the pointy end, with the following events happening the next six weeks 25 February 2011           State Meet 24 March 2011               State Championships As I write this, we have another two weeks of SPP to go, prior to a 4 weeks competition peak.   The State Meet on the 25 th is a competition. According to Charlie Francis, depending on your training the number of races to achieve peak performance is as follows; 100m                    5-6 200m                    4-5 400m                    3 At this stage the athletes are competing at local meets, looking at 300m worth of races, which is their special endurance session for the week.   Currently the athletes are working off slightly different schedules, due to lack of training, and ability to train.   A sample week, is like this Monday           Specific Endurance               Example Session: 2 x 2 x 2