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Hello, my name is Sarah and I'm a sophmore in highschool. I've been through many exhausting and depressing trials with friendship and drama and know my fair share of heartbreak. If you have a problem I'll be here to answer so don't be hesitant. :]

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Hey! I know, I ask a TUN of questions about tracK!

but, I have a meet on monday! (Im asking this on Saturday Morning) and I have HORRIBLE pains in my knees and ankels when i run, and after i run i have the pains in my ankels. it always feels like my i am going to sprain my ankel!

I have pratice in about an hour!

so, i need some help! what should i do to make myself go faster, despite the pains.

I know how to at the meet because i only have to do it one time, but at pratice wtih the continous working, what should I do??

and any ways to go faster, and im in the 4X1 relay! anyone have sugestions for that either?

Also- I know what the pains are coming from-its the track.

:/

sorry its so long, but i only have a little over one hour before i have to leave for pratice!

Thanks In Advance!

-*KelC*-

hum.. hum hum.. Well, having the fact that I do play soccer.. I would know some things about speed, though there are two kinds of speed, and two kinds of ways your muscles can adjust. In your muscles are fast twitch and slow twitch reflexes. Fast twitch are more for the sprinting type of thing your talking about, where as slow twitch are more for the cross country or endurance runner. Down side to these muscles are that you can never have high levels of both, you are one way or another, or at least this is what my coach says. (who knows, he's a crazy old person.. *shrug*) For this, because soccer players need to have plenty of speed, he has a speed camp to build up the fast twitch reflexes in our muscles. There are a lot of small little things that make you have to react and move faster that we do at soccer, primarily a "speed camp" my coach holds... some examples..

( picture provided under each description )

hoops - he sets some plastic hoops out in a sort of flower pattern, you jump and change which foot is in the hoop every time and go all the way around the circle. Sometimes we do about like 3 reps one way, and then 3 the other. Since you don't have hoops, just take some chalk and make circles on the ground.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/Jadewolfen/soccerhoops.bmp

hurdles - There are small hurdles we use (he sets some wood blocks ontop of cones so that it's lower than a normal hurdle) and you do two steps in between each going as fast as you can.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/Jadewolfen/soccerhurdles.bmp

crates - You those plastic crates? the ones that you can see inside, and they are those boxes. Well, that can be an easy tool. Just set it down, opening facing the ground. Jump over the box, placing your foot on the top (the one that's closest to the box on that side) You can do this in intervals, like pyramids. 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min.. back down. And who says you have to use a box, use your little brother if you want, anything you can jump over will do.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/Jadewolfen/soccercrates.bmp

I hope I provided plenty of ideas for you, good luck with track.. :)

p.s. excuse the sloppiness of my pictures, just thought that would more easily explain things..

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