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Elite coaching special - Craig Mottram and Andy Baddeley on racing
Page 7: Craig Mottram and Andy Baddeley - Business as usual |
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Going out on to the track for that World Championship the pre-race preparation will be the same as for any other race.
Mottram said: “You make sure you’re awake and ready to go. In a 5K you can work into it a little bit more than in a 1500m. I run for 15-20min, do some drills, two of each, and strides.
“But you have got to time it right as in a lot of competitions there is a call room 15-30min before the start. In some major championships it could be several call rooms. So you get ready 45min before the call room time and go from there.”
The different processes before a race are something an athlete needs to be able to take in their stride, Badderley said. “It is important not to be thrown by the call rooms all being different, for example whether you are allowed to put your spikes on or not. You can’t be too meticulous as you’d be thrown by it.”
Baddeley sees it as a case of business as usual no matter the size of the meeting: “It’s what you do in training every week. Just zone everyone else out and do what you need to do.”
Mottram doesn’t believe getting held in the call room should have a negative effect or bother athletes: “Your nerves mean you could probably walk out on the track and go. The bigger the meet, the longer the time in the call room. You’ve got to be knowledgeable about what’s going to happen. You are there to run so concentrate on that, let your team management deal with finding that out. It’s just a process to get you on the track in an orderly fashion.”
After all the preamble it is down to business. That is where an athlete is most at home when surrounded by all the administration and bureaucracy of a big meeting: “I’m most relaxed when I’m racing. When the gun goes that’s the one time you’re not controlled by everyone else. When the gun goes you could just sit down and do nothing if you wanted to.”
When the gun goes in Osaka the chances of Mottram or Baddeley sitting down and doing nothing seem highly unlikely.
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