SecondsSprint vs Sprint Pacer

SecondsSprint makes it possible to determine the exact distance an athlete sprints given a fixed number of seconds. Sprint sessions where this app will be very useful: - 23” (men) or 27” (women) sprints, made popular by Chris Korfist and Tony Holler. - The Kosmin test, used to predict 800m and 1500m times. - Any other sprint or run with a fixed duration. HOW IT WORKS - Place cones at regular distances (e.g. 1 yard or 1 meter) in the zone where the athlete will finish. - Choose the number of seconds the athlete will sprint. 23 and 27 seconds are available by default, but any number of seconds can be entered. - Tap the big red START button as soon as the athlete starts to sprint. - Follow the athlete during the sprint and the video will freeze when time is up. - The frozen video will make it easy to determine the sprinted distance.

Around the world training programs for sprinting describe the "intensity" that athletes should be running at during training sessions. Usually, this is described as a percentage, for example: "2 x 150m @ 90% intensity". Sometimes coaches emphasize that this percentage is only intended as a guide and that you need to run according to how you feel on a given day. Other times coaches may give a target time for athletes to run, which they believe best matches the intensity indicated by the training program. There are a few problems with this. Firstly, using the percentage efforts on training programs only as guides is not specific. It leaves athletes to train entirely on feeling, so when race day comes and they're not running the times that they want, they're left confused as to why. Secondly, coaches usually have to manage many athletes at a time. So when they give a target time for a training session, they're addressing more than one athlete. The problem with this is that individual athletes are unique and giving even just 2 athletes the same directive can take away from each athletes' specific capabilities and goals. With Sprint Pacer, athletes are not left guessing at whether the problem was that they weren't following the intensity on their training program correctly. And, they can rest assured that their training times cater for their own personal goals.