"I believe that you're born with a certain gift for speed and a certain gift for endurance and that both can be improved with work." -Jack Daniels
Starting a run from a good forty meters from where Jen waits with watch. Gaining momentum to hit the spot at full sprint I proceed with an all out effort for six seconds. Six seconds of stepping over my knee followed by a full application of force to the ground. A relaxed aggressiveness moves me forward with giant strides off-placed with balanced swinging of arms. Then Jen shouts and I stop, six second done and it is her turn to get a good running start and to then do six seconds of all out sprinting. In between is roughly five minutes rest as we rack up three six second sprints.
If toughness, training direction and racing opportunity are equal then speed is the definition of talent in running. With our spring season so many months away we are working on the base of our talent, with an upper limit set by genetics. However, if you never recruit this base of speed then genetics don't matter, you will never have that dormant speed to use.
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