Don’t be afraid to be creative with your relay order. The unwritten rule is to start a relay with your second faster runner, hand off to your third fastest, followed [ … ]

Don’t bother with 4×100 splits. If you already agree with this sentiment, I’m probably not going to say anything you haven’t already a millions times yourself. If you do still [ … ]

Cut in gradually in races with a one-turn stagger.

It boggles me how few athletes do this, but I constantly preach it with my runners. Feel free to double check my math, but in the diagram here (not to scale) we are assuming that the break-line following a one-turn stagger is about 90m to the 200m mark. The blue line represents a sharp cut-in and the red line represents a gradual cut-in.

In the jumping events, an athlete’s center of mass is predetermined at takeoff. This is obvious (well, kinda), but it’s neat to think of it in those terms. Any projectile [ … ]