Pella Atletieks Track & Field Club

What an incredible opportunity for our Pella Atletieks track and field/multi-event athletes to participate at the 2009 AAU National Olympic Games. This year's meet was held at the prestigious Drake Stadium in Des Moines, IA. What a week! Many of the nation's best youth performers were on hand for the week. Records were being broken all over the place! All we can say is WOW and way to go Pella Atletieks Track and Field!

See results at:

http://aauathletics.org/results/2009/jogames/daily/completeResults.htm

Congratulations to our Pella Atletieks middle distance runners for their fantastic performances in Omaha! See results for our athletes at: http://www.nebraskausatf.org/2009reg8joresults.htm

Congratulations to all Pella Atletieks athletes who participated in the USATF Iowa Junior Olympic Championships! Fantastic performances by numerous athletes! Way to go!

Official results can be found at: http://www.usatf-iowa.org/docs/youth/2009%20Iowa%20Association%20Results...

Wade Pingel jumped 10' 6" in the intermediate boys pole vault to take 2nd place for team Pella Atletieks. Pingel competed in Bloomington, IL at the 2010 AAU Northern Indoor Track & Field National Championships, Friday, February 19th.

As many of you start to think about spring, we at Pella Atletieks are in full swing with indoor track. HOLD ON, the club has not started an indoor program, but your coaches are back to work with our older athletes (high school and college).

Just a few notes and dates for the 2010 USATF track and field meets to start posting on your summer calendars:

USATF Iowa JO Track and Field Championships: June 19/20 (tentatively to be held at Johnston HS)
USATF Iowa JO Combined Events Championships: June 13 (tentatively to be held at WDM Valley HS)
USATF Region VIII Meet: July 8-11th at (tentatively to be held at Simpson College-Indianola)--EXCELLENT LOCATION, no traveling to Omaha or Wisconsin!
USATF JO National Championships: July 27-August 1

Congratulations to all of our club athletes that are advancing to the 2009 AAU Junior Olympic National Summer Games to be held at Drake Stadium in August! Pella Atletieks was well represented over the 4 day week, and numerous athletes missed qualifying in some of the events by just one or two places! Check out results and be sure to contact Eric if you are planning on competing at Drake in August.

http://www.aauathletics.org/index.asp?a=pages/results/nq_results.html

Congratulations to all of our club athletes that are advancing to the 2009 AAU Junior Olympic National Summer Games to be held at Drake Stadium in August! Pella Atletieks was well represented over the 4 day week, and numerous athletes missed qualifying in some of the events by just one or two places! Check out results and be sure to contact Eric if you are planning on competing at Drake in August.

http://www.aauathletics.org/index.asp?a=pages/results/nq_results.html

Pre-AAU Meet workout for those competing.

First of all, don't think you have to try to cram any practices or more running into the week prior to the meet. All the work you have done throughout the summer is the work that will carry you through the meet. With the heat and close proximity to the meet any additional hard work will only tire you out unnecessarily.

So we want to work smarter. Work in the evening or morning when it is cooler

1. Warm-up
200m jog
10 toe touches
skipping 3 x 30m with different arm swings
4 x easy 30 yd build-ups to full speed.

2. Starts / Acceleration Work
4 x 30m starts

3. Technique Work
shot, long jump approaches etc

4. Speed Endurance
2 x 100m @ full speed for the midget and younger athletes
3 x 150m build-ups for the youth and older athletes.

No practice heat due to heat. I will post a possible workout later this afternoon.

Great job to all who competed this weekend. First real test of running in the heat and against good competition. I was proud of all the Pella Atletieks runners and jumpers. You represented the club in fine fashion.

This week will be tough to schedule too many practices. The AAU National Qualifier Meet begins on Thursday here at Central. So, the track will be unavailable to all non-competing athletes. Your support of your fellow club members would be greatly appreciated. You will have to pay to get in, unless you want to volunteer to work.

As of this time, Monday afternoon, I am not scheduling any practices. The heat advisory does not make conditions conducive to a safe practice. If the weather changes, I will post information by noon tomorrow (Tuesday). If the heat continues, I will post a workout to the website that athletes can do on their own. The best thing you can do for your athletes is keep them rested.

Contact me with questions.

Eric