Gillick second

thirstywork

Kikaya and Ireland’s David Gillick featured in a well contested men’s race with the experienced African record holder coming out on top in a time of 45.35.
Gillick was just behind in 45.48 with U.S. Virgin Islands’ Henry Tabarie taking third place in 45.54.

sleapy235

Solid if unspectacular performance from Gillick, lets hope he's saving the rest of his sub 45 performances for Berlin! Some good runners behind him all the same, Tabaree, Borlee, Blackwood and Neville.
I think he's running Monaco during the week, and thats his last race before Berlin, not sure though, can anyone confirm this?

VR46

He says in his blog that he's racing in Monaco on Tuesday

http://www.davidgillick.com/blog/Race-6---Barcelona-Spain.html

So it was great to be back out on the track, getting another race under my belt before I move on to Monaco for a race on Tuesday

And talks bout his race the other night.

Race wasnt great, not too happy with it. It was a lazy run, 1st 200 was not great, came home well in the last 50/60 meters to take second. I feel i should have won it but ya cant run great all the time i suppose.

Very solid performances so far this season. More of the same in Berlin hopefully

Pherekydes

According to the results' page his reaction time was a ponderous .59 which would account for some of the slow time. IIRC, his reaction time for his other races was about .20-.25.

thirtyfoot

Pherekydes wrote: »

According to the results' page his reaction time was a ponderous .59 which would account for some of the slow time. IIRC, his reaction time for his other races was about .20-.25.

I think they are all off, Michelle Carey had a slow one too as did many athletes. Don't think we can read too much into them.

RJM22

400 reaction times are very important - I remember reading an article about the beijing 4 final and it compared the reactions with the results - basically the majority of the field could have placed higher if they reacted faster than the person in front of them...

thirtyfoot

RJM22 wrote: »

400 reaction times are very important - I remember reading an article about the beijing 4 final and it compared the reactions with the results - basically the majority of the field could have placed higher if they reacted faster than the person in front of them...

Very true but here I think we can assume the timing is faulty. Kikaya 0.542, Williamson 0.560. They aren't right, it would mean the Borlee was 2 or 3m gone before the others reacted:eek:

1 8 COD - KIKAYA Gary 04/02/1980 8 0.542 45.35
2 5 IRL - GILLICK David 09/07/1983 5 0.594 45.48
3 6 ISV - TABARIE Henry 01/12/1987 6 0.267 45.54 SF1
4 2 BEL - BORLÉE Kevin 22/02/1988 2 0.175 45.72
5 3 CUB - COLLAZO William 31/08/1986 3 0.246 45.81
6 4 USA - NEVILLE David 01/06/1984 4 0.294 45.81
7 107 JAM - BLACKWOOD Michael 29/08/1976 10 0.517 46.01
8 108 USA - WILLIAMSON Darold 19/02/1983 9 0.560 46.72
9 7 BAH - WILLIAMS Andrae 11/07/1983 7 0.437 47.60

RoyMcC

RJM22 wrote: »

400 reaction times are very important - I remember reading an article about the beijing 4 final and it compared the reactions with the results - basically the majority of the field could have placed higher if they reacted faster than the person in front of them...

Really? I would have thought that the odd 0.1 or 0.2 secs at the start of a 400m would be insignificant compared with all the other factors in that race. It's not like the 100m where everyone is running maximally throughout.

I don't know though. Be interested to hear from any quarter-milers on this. Do you place emphasis on good blockwork?

thirtyfoot

RoyMcC wrote: »

I don't know though. Be interested to hear from any quarter-milers on this. Do you place emphasis on good blockwork?

Big time, a key part of the race is the first 60-70m when you get to your cruising speed as fast as possible when you are only using ATP. Its like a free 6 or 7 seconds that you don't have to pay for at the end of the race.

Obviously reaction time is only a part of it, my reactions are usually 0.17 or 0.18 but I would be very slow out to 60-70m due to my lack of power. Good reaction and a good acceleration.

RJM22

I'm a 400m runner ... here's the article that I read

http://speedendurance.com/2008/10/24/chip-time-vs-gun-time-controversy/

I wouldn't spend alot of time practicing my blocks because at my level it would negligible when I could instead get another speed endurance session in or what not. But this article says Rooney and Neville would have done better in Beijing if they reacted quicker.

RoyMcC

RJM22 wrote: »

I'm a 400m runner ... here's the article that I read

http://speedendurance.com/2008/10/24/chip-time-vs-gun-time-controversy/

I wouldn't spend alot of time practicing my blocks because at my level it would negligible when I could instead get another speed endurance session in or what not. But this article says Rooney and Neville would have done better in Beijing if they reacted quicker.

Hmm, I'd say that article is more of a mathematical exercise than anything else. Without having raced a 400 since school (when it was 440y ) I'd say you are correct in not worrying about the odd 0.1 at the start. However I see Tingle's point in the importance of the block start for getting into your race efficiently and smoothly.