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The Tape Ladder Is the ABC Ladder

Red, Blue, Green and Yellow sit 4, 3, 2 and 1 feet under race spacing: the A, B, C reps and the working-set home.

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One Ladder, Two Documents

The founder's discounts are 4, 3, 2 and 1 feet. The tape colors sit 4, 3, 2 and 1 feet under the race family.So the tape already carries the ABCs and the working-set home.

Practice repDiscountColorWomen ft (28-ft family)Men ft (30-ft family)
A rep4 ftRed2426
B rep3 ftBlue2527
C rep2 ftGreen2628
Working-set home1 ft (hurdles 3 in down)Yellow2729
RacenoneBlack8.50 m race marks30
Discounts on the tape derived arithmetic
Coach notes
  • The founder's worked example: a female hurdler who normally hurdles about 28 feet apart runs the A rep at 24 feet. That is the Red mark.
  • The match is exact on the imperial tapes. On metric tapes the step is 0.30 m, about 0.98 ft, so the colors approximate the same ladder.
  • The tape sets spacing only. The working-set home also lowers the hurdles 3 inches; tape does not carry height.

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  • Needs the founder The tape documents label the colors by purpose (max discount, heavy discount, moderate rhythm, race-feel opener) and do not name the A, B, C reps; the founder has not confirmed this mapping.
SourcesWALK · b11; WALK · b13; TAPE-MAN

Related

  • The ABCs -- Three block starts over discounted spacing, tightening toward race spacing. The first splits of the practice.
  • Working Sets and the Hurdle Count -- The working sets are sized by what the warmup has already spent from one capped hurdle count.
  • The Tape System -- H1 is zero. One color down the track. Colors are practice spacings; black is race truth.

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