ASTONISHING LATE SEASON FORM FOR TS1-UK

It was bound to happen.  A blog published here highlighting a late season personal best, and then within 24 hours came four more spectacular sprints from a Trackspeed1-UK squad who have quite literally been on fire this year.

Headlining the performances at Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Wednesday evening was again Niclas Baker, who shattered his previous lifetime best over 200m with a 21.33s run.

Having been discussing training for the coming winter with coach John Powell online only hours earlier, and his need to improve basic speed for running 400m next year, he clearly decided to start early!  He had two 21.41s runs wind aided to his name before that, but otherwise had run only 21.99 legally.

Chaka Maillett - sub-11 at long last! 

It was an inspirational performance which followed three other super sprints over 100m by Tracksped1-UK training partners.  Chaka Maillett had been tantalizingly close to cracking the 11-second barrier at Bromley some weeks earlier when he clocked 11.00s, but at Lee Valley he broke through at last with a fastest ever 10.92s.

Also, running the shorter sprint was Nima Jam, whose form this year has seen a modest club level sprinter convert to a potentially classy act, and he produced the second fastest time of his life with 11.36s

Meanwhile, back in the 200m, former European Junior Champion David Bolarinwa cracked 21 seconds for the first time in 3 years, clocking an impressive 20.97s.

“I nearly fell over when I was messaged these times,” said coach John Powell who was away for this meeting.  “We have had some great results this year – no championship medals, but it is a squad rebuilding now, and poised to compete with the best again.

“I’ve been again taking ideas from literally international sources, and the programme I am already putting together for this winter’s training phase is very exciting indeed, and elaborates on what we have been doing this past 11 months.  Everyone should be resting up now for most of August, and then getting back into the groove with renewed vigor after this season in September.

“We have a terrific group of athletes in Trackspeed1-UK again now, and there are many who are poised to turn heads in 2017, assuming the vultures stay away!”