The discipline
What the sprint events demand
The 100 m is a dead-straight drag race, over in well under fifteen seconds; the 200 m takes that same violence around the piste, adding corner technique at full speed. There is no room to recover from a mistake; the race is effectively decided by the quality of the start, the first accelerating strides, and how much top speed you can hold while technique is falling apart under fatigue.
That shapes everything about the athlete you have to become:
Explosive power
The start and first metres are won in the gym and on dry land: maximal strength turned into explosive push-off, over and over.
Acceleration & top speed
Getting up to speed fast, then holding a low, technical position while producing maximal output. Speed you can't hold is speed you don't have.
Precision under pressure
One start, one chance. Sprinting rewards athletes who can be calm, technical and violent in the same three seconds.
How that gets trained (the energy systems, the loading, the recovery) has its own page. The short version: sprint training is short, brutally intense, and lives or dies on recovery quality.
Season & goals
Where the season stands
My season is fully periodized: planned backwards from the races that matter, in a training planner I built myself. Season 2026 started in November 2025 and was built around peak sprint form for the national championship on the piste in May 2026, racing at the sharp end while managing Type 1 diabetes in real time.
The goal underneath the results is constant: prove, with published data rather than just words, that a Type 1 athlete can train, recover and compete at full throttle without excuses.
The journey
From setbacks to start lines
The honest timeline: the illnesses, the diagnosis, the technology, and the way back to racing. Health events link into the health story.
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