Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Training at the Coburg track tonight with Brian. didn't feel too bad after the long run yesterday, but running to the station and the track from Batman the legs just didn't have any drive in them

Get to the track and theremust be about 30 people ready to go - most of them female! Things are looking up at the 'Burg. Was glad to see Glen Carroll there, who is one of our new athletes who is already showing a lot of promise

Did our usual limbering exercises session. Then into the main session

Tonight - it was 3 x 400's with 200 jog recovery, then a rest. Then it was 4 x 300's with 100 m walk recovery, then a rest. Then we had 4 x 200's with across infield (about 100 metres) walk recovery

Did each of the 400's in around 67 seconds. The first one was 67 and Glenn went with me through the first one. On reflection, a tad fast. The second 400 was I think 69. And the last one was 67 again. We had a pretty decent break, I would say about five minutes and we are lining up for the 300's

The second set - the 300's - were all in around 49 seconds. I was reasonably happy with that given that the instruction was to do them faster than the 400's and at 49 that works out to be 65 second 400's. so if not the same pace, a touch quicker

We line up for the 200's and do the first one in 31 seconds. I find that as we go though each of the 200's the other guys are getting a tad faster and I am remaining constant. I end up doing all four of the 200's in 30-31 seconds. Maybe this is why my 400's and 800's on race day aren't improving that much. Food for thought

Through the last two 200's I notice that first my left calf is cramping and on the last one both calves are cramping. I have not experienced this before while doing "sprint" work so will have to watch it

Scored two bottles of red wine after training from Jo F for my work in the summer season which was a lovely gesture. Thanks Joey! I am drinking one of them as I type this. Little does she know that I love the summer season and if i had the chance i would take six months off from work every year just to concentrate on it! i love the bravado, the competitive spirit, the friendships and the in your facew attitude of the summer season. you just don't get that during winter. there is so much going on at a summer meet and if you have a bad run in an 800, you can always redeem yourself in the 3 km, 5 km or whatever. Summer season rocks!

Anyhoo, good session tonight and it will see me in good stead for my 400 metres at the Shield Final on Saturday. Oh yeah, Our Division 4 men's team made it to the Shield Final against the top two teams from each region for Division 4 in the state. And all I qualfied for was the 400 metres. Might have snuck in for Long Jump if it was on the program

What's worse, I have to race against this 45 year old guy from Richmond who has run way faster than me this season. He runs at a different region, so on the track we have never raced against each other. If it was an 800 or above I would have him covered. But over the sprints ...

TOTAL DISTANCE = about 4 kilometes including warm down