What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

[TrainerPhil]

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

[guruof track]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

Training.

[TrainerPhil]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

Training.

Gay and Bolt and Asafa are in training but you won't see them shut it down so much that their times in consecutive races as for all intents and purposes laughers.....

[track_expert]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

You dont improve after trials. His season is a double periodized plan where he builds up his capacity, improves fitness, etc. and then does the speed work and tapers down to peak for the trials. A short recovery period and then hes back to heavy training and tapers off again for world championships.

[guruof track]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

Training.

Gay and Bolt and Asafa are in training but you won't see them shut it down so much that their times in consecutive races as for all intents and purposes laughers.....

This is typical of Crawford though, before Trials me may have had 1 or 2 decent races. His training is different from theirs.

[TrainerPhil]

Fair enough. Just was expecting/hoping to see him build on his solid US Trials performance. Do you think he will be able to run a legal sub 19.8 by Berlin?

[track_expert]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but coming off the US Trials I thought that Crawford was in terrific shape and would be the third man on the medal stand in Berlin in the 200m. Granted the wind helped his time in Eugene, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee. His most recent 200m time in Athens was 20.42 and he finished 3rd. I didn't see the race, but 20.42 in 0.00 wind is not promising. What's going on?

Training.

Gay and Bolt and Asafa are in training but you won't see them shut it down so much that their times in consecutive races as for all intents and purposes laughers.....

It depends on the program as well, Crawford has had a LOT of intensive tempo in his program this year and thats the reason why his times werent going until we saw some spark at trials. A similar approach is kept from trials to berlin with adjusted volume.
The difference between asafa/bolt/tyson is that they all have done single periodized plans. The build up for the big event (worlds). While in 2007 Tyson was forced to do a double periodized plan for trials AND worlds.

Asafa and Usain never need to do a double periodized simply because they dont need to run that fast at jamaican championships to qualify, and only 3 races for Asafa while Usain can cruise through the 200s after that, doesnt need to be in peak form.
Tyson has had the similar approach this year because he isnt running at trials, so the result is faster times before Berlin as you see.

In the past with top sprinters who raced indoors, the plan has been triple periodized when they've had to run world indoors, nationals and worlds/olympics. All depends on the country and what your plan is.

[track_expert]

Fair enough. Just was expecting/hoping to see him build on his solid US Trials performance. Do you think he will be able to run a legal sub 19.8 by Berlin?

It's not possible to build after a peak in the program, you can refresh and rebuild once again.

Read post above ^^

[26mi235]

Fair enough. Just was expecting/hoping to see him build on his solid US Trials performance. Do you think he will be able to run a legal sub 19.8 by Berlin?

It's not possible to build after a peak in the program, you can refresh and rebuild once again.

Read post above ^^

Is it tough for a lot of sprinters to take this approach because it leads to a number of so-so races and can be hard on the ego, self-confidence and pocketbook? My opinion of Crawford changed a bunch last year and I will really respect his approach if he makes it work again (and, boy, did he do well on that turn at USATF/Trials).

[track_expert]

Fair enough. Just was expecting/hoping to see him build on his solid US Trials performance. Do you think he will be able to run a legal sub 19.8 by Berlin?

It's not possible to build after a peak in the program, you can refresh and rebuild once again.

Read post above ^^

Is it tough for a lot of sprinters to take this approach because it leads to a number of so-so races and can be hard on the ego, self-confidence and pocketbook? My opinion of Crawford changed a bunch last year and I will really respect his approach if he makes it work again (and, boy, did he do well on that turn at USATF/Trials).

Well the other approach would be not peaking for trials which simply could equal.. no tomorrow..
Asafa/tyson/usain without peaking equals the better races.
But the american guys being forced to peak = mediocre races that follow the peak.

[justblaze1011]

Everyone has a different approach to getting ready for big meets. Crawford and other will be fine.

[ndamix]

Everyone has a different approach to getting ready for big meets. Crawford and other will be fine.

Not to mention, folks like confusing battles with wars. :wink:

[3a]

Re: What's wrong with Shawn Crawford?

, but he looked good. But since then he has looked as bad as Muna Lee.

Who, BTW does nothing but post moans on her Twitter in relation to being in Europe on the circuit, (also known by other athletes as - earning their living/ seeing the world/ stamping their authority on the sport) "Wants to be at home", "Wants American food", "Is bored in Europe " etc seems to be the tone of her ramblings. Seems her inability to see how lucky/gifted and short living her window of opportunity to be an elite athlete is her biggest downfall.

Crawford didn't look too bad the other night, however!

[Paul Henry]

Hopefully 2 or 3 guys run out of lane or pinch the outer lines...or better yet a series of false starts leaving Crawford with 2 other guys in the blocks. with the form I'm seeing leading from his last major outing these would be major considerations for his camp.

[rainy.here]

Crawford has the same pattern so far as last year. He didn't look great, surprised people at US Champs, got worse, then ran pretty well at Olympics.