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Just answered a coach who wanted to make the 400 the focus of his program...
I believe that the 4x4 needs to be promoted as an elite team's focal point... the circled event... the greatest event ever... a sacred, full-team experience. I have no respect for track teams that aren't good in the 4x4.
Having said that, I totally dismiss the old school notion that track coaches should train everyone in the middle... to train everyone with huge volumes of "running" and no sprinting... then move the genetically fast guys to the 100-200, the genetically slow guys to the 1600-3200. This is BS.
Train SPEED.
Then train sprinters to sprint further once a week starting a month before your first meet (23 Second Drill, 4x4 Predictors).
Find hurdlers and jumpers from your sprint group and work with them after your brief speed and x-factor workouts. Those workouts are so brief that they can be considered warmups.
Your XC team will become your distance runners.https://t.co/54z9mqfuYs