10/2

Every end is but a beginning….
After yesterday’s pretty good workout, especially all things considered, I started thinking about the next step. We are now in fall, a fact that crept up on me, and the BU mini-meets are coming soon. Not too soon but soon enough that adjustments need to be addressed if not actually made. We are going to continue on this ten or eleven day cycle twice more starting the first of the two cycles today. Then we will keep the training scheme the same except the sprint days will change from all out sprints to speed endurance.
The BU mini-meets are in the middle to the end of December and we are going after the 400meter at the beginning of the indoor season. At the end/towards middle of Indoor, so middle of January and all of February, we will transition to the 800meter. This means that in less then three weeks the sprint days will move from all out sprints of 60 meters or so with four or five minutes rest in between each to 200’s-500’s at 95%-all out efforts. These 200-500meter sprints will be accompanied by a lot of rest, up to eight or ten minutes after a single 200. This type of training will take all the speed we have been working on for the last few months and start to turn it into speed endurance for the 400meter. It is exciting to see the year start to unfold from the end of one phase of training and into the beginning of another phase.