Learning to run Fast

Loren Seagrave added me as a friend on facebook today which prompted me to seek him out on google. I found this read on speed development. I the following quote interesting and partially true.

The point? It does not matter how strong one is, no strength would help to do that skill faster or better. So strength is not the key. Speed is a skill: just like any other skill, it can be improved. Any coach can make you tired - but that is not the purpose of training for speed; the purpose is to become faster! A coach must apply a systematic approach to improvement. There is also a profound difference between coaching and training.

I love this one

Stride Length

Take a young Costa Rican sprinter and say, "Run with long strides for coaches." She would probably exaggerate her strides to please the command of the coach. She would increase her actual SL from the toe of the right foot at takeoff(t.o.) to the toe of the left foot at touchdown(t.d.). This is the simplistic concept many athletes have of stride length. But SL is better understood in relation to the athlete's Center of Gravity (COG), and the distance the COG travels from t.o. to t.d. is used to figure the actual SL.