Race for the record: Can Andre De Grasse go lower than 9.84? | Athletics North

You did an outstanding piece that you can read on cbcsports.ca, a deep dive into the Life and Times of Andre De Grasse and and of course his pursuit of shaving .06 seconds off to surpass Surin and Bailey 9.84 that Canadian record. But you were in Jacksonville, FL. We always love to hear from Andre and you had a front row seat to his training and what he’s doing. Morgan, where is Andre at right now? Where is Andre’s in Jacksonville. Right, right, right. Right. Mentally, physically, Spiritually, his outdoor season is set to open this Friday, April 26th at a meet at their home track in Jacksonville, FL. And so the story, yes, was about Andre de Grasse’s quest to set a 100m personal best at 29 years old in his 10th season on the world class stage. And it’s not a simple thing to do when you think about the fact that since we first saw Andre De Grasse, the personal best he set in 2015 was 9.92 seconds for all the medals. Maybe he’s won since then. In all the accomplishments and all the 200m national records, these 100m time in the last nine seasons has improved by .03 seconds. But to set a national record this year, he’s going to need to double that margin in one season. It’s a very difficult thing to do, but he feels like he’s entering a season healthy for the first time in a long time. And all the numbers that you try to use to triangulate and project how fast somebody should be able to run are starting to line up for Andre de Grasse in terms of his power numbers. There’s this now the the the the story opens with the scene of him struggling through a set of 250 meter runs, not through all of them, but definitely through the last one because it was in January and that workout is designed to be really difficult. But once his body starts adapting to those workouts, that’s when you see the Andre de Grasse that we’re used to seeing in the sense that he’s a guy that might not have the fastest Max velocity, but it’s close, but he hits it at the right time and maintains it better than almost anyone else on Earth. And so his big challenge is squeezing a couple, squeezing 1/10 of a second out of the 1st 30 meters of the race without it costing him in the last 40. And so this is we went deep into the the, the on track work, the weight room work, the recovery work that goes into trying to find six, 100th of a second to get Andre De Grasse to the national record. It’s a brilliant piece, Morgan. It is a lesson in science, Physiology, mathematics. So take a look at that. I I did. I did write it with all of my track nerdiest track nerd friends in mind, but also tried to put it in language that the casual sports fan can understand. Mission accomplished.