The contrast is striking. the Selina Büchel seems not only confident, but not enthusiastically, almost all of the races went this Winter is promising. The had not been in the past season. The Mittelstrecklerin from the Toggenburg was in bad health, the bronchi, difficult Breathing, there is a small injury was added here and there – anything other than ideal conditions for good performance.
the results of The Swiss record holder over 800 m were sobering, at the European Championships in Berlin rank 7 in 2:02,05 remained. For the first time in years, Büchel 2018 is not made it, the two laps to run under two minutes. A Must to include in the competitive discipline only in Europe to the enlarged tip.
Biggest successes from long ago
The 27-Year-old has drawn the consequences, and that some of its principles abandoned. Büchel was long the Swiss athlete, who went their way up to world class level, almost exclusively from home. You kept a lot of training camps abroad and appreciated their quick, younger club colleagues in the TV Bütschwil as a sparring partner.
And in almost twelve years, their coach, Marlis and Urs Göldi made with your careful design work, a runner, had both at the world Championships as well as Olympics, final chances, and this by only hundredths of a forgave. The biggest successes she celebrated 2015 and 2017, as it was indoor European champion and this title, then defended.
comfort zone
Now Büchel says: “I had to leave my comfort zone if I want to return to this Level.” She lives still, in Wil SG, her coach since the fall of Louis Heyer, who is also national coach of the medium – and long-distance runner at Swiss Athletics. This means that Büchel trained only partially in the Eastern part of Switzerland, just as often, but also in Biel or in Magglingen.
And to the sport everyday, she works up to ten hours per week as a space planning drawing. “I’m the distraction, I’ll take care of anything other than my Training and my body,” she says. The last summer you have as “almost too comfortable” experienced, “it is good, if I even once otherwise am required”.
“I know, how you react, for example, in stress situations.”National coach Louis Heyer
A change of coach is often a delicate matter, in Büchel’s case, however, it was human, not a complete fresh start. She says: “We know us for a long time, Louis Heyer has cared for me has always been on the big occasions.” He added: “I know your Training diaries for 2015, and I know from the title fight, how you react, for example, in stress situations.” Heyer believed that Büchel’s Stagnation stems from the fact that it moves for more than ten years in the same “System”, “well-understood a superb, it has made a world-class runner, but your body is no longer irritated, he knows everything”.
The 3-points-Plan
He placed the beginning of Winter, therefore, a 3-point Plan. New stimuli and a different rhythm in the daily life, the running economy will improve and more training camps with international competitors work. Heyer talks about his new task, he is keen to stress that his training are not better than those of the married couple goeldi, “but different”. Büchel describes this, she says just: “The focus has shifted maybe a little.”
“you Have Championships, you run the saw at the Hall? Your last round? It looked so loose!”National coach Louis Heyer
But you can’t see Büchel in this weeks run, it is the runner of yore, your style has changed noticeably. Heyer asks full of enthusiasm: “Have you run seen Championships at the Hall? Your last round? It looked so loose!” It has its foundations shaken and tried, the spatial steps wean – to finalize your run-of-economist. “Her steps were controlled, from thighs, the shorter the steps should come from the ankles,” he explains. You over in the acidified area, the case of the shorter steps are easier or at least less severe than with long.
Not less than over a decade of ingrained automatisms, he tried to change with the athlete – also with regard to the arms which define the running rhythm. Büchel was easily recognizable as a runner with a strong arm. “I tried that your torso is more compact, the arms of said close-fitting and with a smaller momentum,” Heyer.
Apparently, the athlete has learned well. With 2:00,98 she ran in Torun (POL) recently in the Top 3 of Europe. In the head it now has space for the dream of a third European Gold. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 01.03.2019, 10:03 PM
