Gabby Thomas has revealed one of her weaknesses that her coach constantly warns her from.
Triple Olympic champion Gabby Thomas has opened up about one of the things she has totally failed to get over despite several warnings from her coach Tonja Buford-Bailey.
Gabby Thomas is a perfectionist and would always be looking to analyse all of her races, bothering her coach with questions after every race.
However, her coach is not a fan of those questions as she insists they might affect how she executes her next races as she will be focusing on making everything better, something that is close to impossible as it is always said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
She added that being unable to master the drive phase is something she is always glued on, revealing that it is something they are always working to improve in each training.
“I am very type A and into analysing how I run. I’ll talk to my coach about it over and over again. She tells me to try not to get wrapped up into it all the time,” Gabby Thomas said in an interview with Guardian Sport earlier this year.
“Because when you’re overthinking you do start to run slow. But the drive phase, in particular, is something we practise over and over again, meticulously. It’s very, very technical but it sets you up for the entire race.”
The world 200m silver medallist insisted that once she gets it right, she will be able to start thinking about the late Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record.
Flo Jo set the 200m world record at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, clocking a time of 21.34 seconds to cross the finish line. In the same Olympic Games, she also set the 100m world record of 10.49 seconds.
She disclosed that how an athlete runs the first 100m will determine how the execution of the second part happens and it is very crucial.
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“If I can get that part even stronger, I will be really, really hard to beat. When you look at Flo-Jo’s 200m world record her second 100m is insane, astronomical in fact,” Gabby Thomas said.
“So that’s what you really want to do: your first 100m is setting you up to have an unreal second one.”
