Subject: RE: Sprint 2 weeks after Olympic....training plan ideas? Depending on how badly you abused your body, which will be largely a factor of a) how hard you went relative to your fitness, and b) how much of a fitness base you had... You will need to 1) recover from the oly fully, and 2) "taper" to show up with fresh legs to the sprint. You won't make fitness gains between now and the sprint that will show up in the race. The physiological adaptation to training stress/recovery takes longer than that. So if your primary goal is to have the best sprint possible, your strategy now should not involve trying to make any fitness gains, but rather to try to stay fast and fresh for the race. In my opinion that involves a healthy dose of shorter and faster workouts. Fast enough that you feel awesomely fast when doing them, but short enough that you don't get all that fatigued by doing the workouts. And when I say fast I don't mean all out sprint repeats on the track... I mean race pace or just slightly faster, but at a volume of about 50% of where you've been training. It would also be a good time to practice free speed techniques based on any mental lessons you took away from your olympic race. Could you make your transitions more efficient somehow? Is there something wrong with your swim technique (not fitness) that an expert could identify and help you fix with immediate results? Can you develop a more efficient pacing strategy for the race (lots of folks give too much on the bike and then have not enough on the run... whereas if you hold back on the bike you'll usually more than make up that time on the run). Hope that helps. Josh |