When Patrick and I were at USATF Level II school
many of the college coaches had a ‘holier than
thou’ attitude toward us plebian high school
coaches.

Until it came time for everyone to present their
final projects where we realized that a lot of
coaches from so-called big time colleges hadn’t
really been doing their homework.

It was an eye opening experience.

The other day I got a message from one of
‘my’ former athletes. This kid was All State Champion
at both 300m and 400m and of course went off to
run in college.

Here is what his message said:

“Listen to this one. I asked my coach the other
day if we (us 400m runners) were ever going to
do a speed workout. He says “No, you never run
full speed in the 400, so theres no reason to
do any speed workouts.”

Yeah, I was so confused thinking about his
response for the rest of the day.

We havent done any speed workouts yet this year.”

Interesting theory.

Incidentally, he was faster when I had him in
high school.

Now the old Latif would go off on a rant here.

But the kinder and gentler Latif doesn’t believe
in that.

So I’m not saying this approach is wrong. I’m
just saying I disagree with it.

I wrote an article recently that breaks it down
in detail.

To your success,

Latif Thomas

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