Saturday Feb 13
4x40m.
2x150m.
All untimed.
Went to the synthetic track where there was a comp and did some work. Wow, was the first time in like 5 years I put spikes on. Felt great … on the first 40 :D. Lol, I think I spent all my energy there, because the next three I felt flat on acceleration. 150’s weren’t bad, did them on a flying start, since it was pointless to try accelerating from a stop. I think I’m not in that bad a shape, I feel reasonably quick.
I also found out there is a track at another park close to me, but it’s only 300m. But who cares as long as it’s usable. I’ll investigate Tuesday when I should do track again.
I’ll be buying a stopwatch early this next week, don’t have anything to time recovery with right now.
The happening of the day, was that I saw a world record, yeah, lol, A WORLD RECORD. One really doesn’t expect in the midst of the mediocrity that is an argentine track meet, to see something like that (male 100m. winner 10.85, women 12.47). There is this 17 year old javelin throwing prodigy here, he got bronze in last years youth world champs - with another year in the youth category ahead. Today he threw 84.85m. 3m. clear of the old record, and 5m. farther then his PB of last year. Geez, you could tell from his warmup he was going to do something huge, his warmup throws were almost hitting the tartan at the end of the field. The infield probably only has 90m. in the national high performance center’s track. Then his first throw was that, WR, and I think he threw even farther on some warmup throws. He packed up and left after that first throw. I guess he wants to improve it again elsewhere. All things said, I haven’t seen anyone in any category throw even close to that far, in particular since javelin really doesn’t have many people practicing it here. So that was pretty cool, as a sprinter one doesn’t get very excited about field events, but when you think about it, this is the equivalent of like if I had seen Usain Bolt pop his 200m. World Youth record.