"Training times are rarely reproduced in competition," he said, "but if you compare them with how people were running a year ago, we have a group of athletes here who are heading toward a potentially great summer season."
The one low point for the group was this morning (Tuesday 26th) when England Schools international, Edmond Amaning, pulled up with a hamstring strain for the third time in ten weeks, but the remainder are very positive.
Their opening competition is at the Florida Gliders' Spring Classic, at Lake Brantley High School track, north of Orlando, on Saturday. The squad entry for this meeting is as follows:
100m
Dwayne Grant
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| (L-R): Ellis Zorro, Omardo Anson and Josh Atille in training at the ESPN facility, in Orlando, Florida |
David Bolarinwa
Edmond Amaning (Withdrawn)
Omardo Anson
200m
Jason Hussain
James Ellington
Dwayne Grant
Ellis Zorro
Edmond Amaning (Withdrawn)
Matthew Threadgold
Joshua Atille
Lawrence Wooldridge
Ellie Doel
The squad may also enter two 4x100m relay teams and possibly a 4x400m quartet.
Trackspeed1 have a full programme from the Brantley meeting on. They return to training straight away the day after, and have sessions on the Monday and Tuesday as well, before a recovery day prior to their next competition.
On Thursday May 5th, everyone will travel north east of Orlando to the University of Central Florida and compete in their annual Twilight meeting, hoping that this year it does not get cancelled due to electrical storms as was the case last year.Then its training for their final eight days in the States before returning to home shores and the season proper.
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| David Bolarinwa, 17, the fastest under-18 in the world last year, is recapturing his form in theStates after a hamstring problem interrupted his winter preparations. |
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