r/Sprinting

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I just had inguinal hernia surgery 3 weeks ago, going on 4 and feeling great. With the hernia, I sadly had to stop jogging entirely for 4 months from the diagnosis to the surgery, so I am rusty.

My question, from either personal experiences, medical expertise or scientific approach, by end Next week, which will be 4 weeks of recovery, should I start light jogging on a treadmill or take it to the street?? For references, I have been able to do some power walks and can easily stomp out 20K steps easy. I'm able to walk up hills and feel little to no pain in my groin while doing so, so I'm feeling the burn to start running.

thanks

I wonder what he's doing now. it's a shame how he ruined his career over a stupid thing like Steroids/Doping.

Not sure what flair, but I think this one works. Just had a couple of questions and wondering if anyone else has been in my position/put a pause on track.

I’d say I’m relatively new to track overall, only started my sophomore year of high school and was able to go from 13.3 down to 10.48 in that timeframe. Recruiting came and went, and I was too late my year to get an offer I liked but I ended up at a D1 school and ran track there.

Like all things, adjusting to college and a new program was rough. I knew the program didn’t work for me, and many of the other sprinters were unhappy overall. There were many things about it (lack of funding, coach not accepting feedback) that made freshman year rough. I was able to get a SB of 10.68 out of it however. As a result, I went in the portal and started asking around, had some offers but ultimately didn’t get them because of the whole roster cuts. Now going back, coach was hurt that I tried to leave and didn’t let me back in the team.

As of this year, it’s my first season without running and I do miss it, but I do feel like it’s hard to start and some “unlucky” timings with myself make it mentally tough. Just curious if anyone else has had that lack of confidence and how they were able to just push through that! Thanks and look forward to hearing feedback!

I’ve got about 6 HS boys between 9-11th grade who are all between 12.1-12.6 in the 100m.

Most have never done track until this year, so don’t have much sprint training.

I know what they need to do physically, but how do you get buy in of “hey let’s get faster, let’s do speed, plyos, and strength consistently”?

How have you achieved buy in for your group?

Daughter plays soccer and part of Australian institute of sport academy for strength and conditioning (won’t say which one). She’s under 15s this year.

At the most recent quarterly performance testing she posted a 20m indoor standing start 3.11. Asked to run it again as they said that can’t be right. Did 3.12, and a final 3.55 effort (which was her best from three months earlier).

She beat the male sprint athletes and they all assumed she ran track or sprints.

Standing start, joggers, think indoor floor would have been very grippy but they still seemed a little shocked at the time.

Hard to find any reliable info outside of some academic studies. Hoping this group can shed some light on the result in relative terms.

- Trains 4-5 sessions a week in soccer plus x2 dedicated strength and conditioning with academy of sport coach plus a game so load already upper end.

I’m talking Xero speed force level ‘barefoot’ with sprint specific intention