Observational Learning 001

Posted on January 27, 2009 by CoachJay

I submit the following from the 2009 UT/TA&M/Tenn Dual Meet…and no, I have no idea why they called it a Dual meet.  Comment as you see fit and I’ll make some comments later this week.

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  • Coach Mac

    .7 ouch – so close, yet soo far. He can watch that video over and over and find endless ways to cut .7 off an 800. The start, 5 more steps in lane 1 instead of lane 2, ten more hard steps on lap 1,2,3,4…

    Thats life in track and field…

  • CoachJay

    Great points and I thanks for the comments – I’ll write detailed thoughts tomorrow.

  • melder

    Jay,

    I could watch since it would stop every five seconds and reload. Perhaps the problem is on my end?

  • http://coachjayjohnson.com CoachJay

    Mike – I'm having the same problems…yikes. Maybe it's the most popular video on Flotrack right now.

    Anyway, I'll post some comments relative to my presentation at the Colorado High School Coaches Association clinic this Friday.

  • http://coachjayjohnson.com CoachJay

    Video's working now!

  • ericwrichey

    Jay – are you still planning on coming back and commenting on this video.

    My initial observations are that Hernandez ran a savvy race for early in the season – with his strength training paying off for him in the end while the Everret brothers got a little overzealous early.

    Hernandez looked smooth and consistent throughout – while the Everett brothers looked to be running a fartlek.

  • http://coachjayjohnson.com CoachJay

    Thanks Eric.

    My thoughts were threefold.

    First, Hernandez ran race splits that may look to be “too positive” to some, but that's the way most fast 800m races are won (and yes, I know that that when Seb Coe set the world record he ran each 400m within 0.1 of each other). Nice race.

    Second, time almost doesn't matter…who cares if any of these guys miss an auto or provisional this early – they're going to run much faster later and they'll get their marks no doubt.

    Third, these young men are well coached; this is not a race of “ran well early” and then they'll be fried by conference and nationals, the way many male middle distances runners are. That fact that I know the coaches supports this, yet anyone can go back through a few years of results and find the programs who run well early vs. the programs that get faster all year long…including getting faster all the way to the NCAA Outdoor meet, the real goal for these athletes.

    Thanks for playing along Eric – we'll do more of this throughout the season.