Hi my name is Pascal Deppisch. I am currently a senior at Danville High School and I am enrolled in Compass class, which is a self driven independent study class overseen by Ms Keach and Ms Modry. For my Compass class I chose to learn more about what makes a great runner and if you can become a great runner through hard work or if it’s an inherent ability. I will be studying the different types of training, and anatomical make up in different athletes. I chose this topic because I am a runner myself and am very interested in learning more about this field. I have been connecting with many College and elite coaches to learn and compare their different training methods, while trying to find out which is the superior training method for any single athlete.
For my first product I compiled a list of the different types of running there are and put them into a website and wrote a little bit about them. I used this project to mainly find my focus point on what aspects of running I wanted to study, and I came up with studying cross country and track. I have met with a few coaches in my free time and had them explain their training process with me and how they individualize specific training plans per athlete to suit their needs and running styles. I looked into training Mid level high school athletes up to elite college and senior level athletes. The training style that stuck out to me the most was that of the Ingebrigtsen family which keeps their easy run pace over 8:30 per mile, and while running intervals they track their lactate levels to make sure they’re training to peak performance without over training. This is a great example of how different training methods are needed for different athletes as some need slower easy runs and some gain higher lactate levels while running, such as middle distance athletes like elite 800m runners only train about 60 to 70 miles a week with a higher percentage of that being speed work, verses elite marathoners some weeks going over 140 miles. For my next product I will be looking further into the muscular and cardiovascular differences between elite level runners and the average runner. This will help to answer one of my questions about if running is an inherent ability or if you can just train hard to get there. I will also use skills that I have learned while learning about Radiology, which is a career that I hope to go into in the later future. After I finish my next product I will be putting together everything that I have learned in this semester into a training plan that can be suited to different runners of different styles and athletic abilities. I hope to continue expanding my knowledge on this subject and that others will find the same interest that I have in running.
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