Thursday, August 12th- Warmup / therapy day
Light flushing massage
hops, skips
a bit more massage
warmup 1x10, 1x20, 1x30 (flats only)
medball throws
1x5 squat throws vertical
1x5 chest pass
1x5 squat throws forward
cool down
There was a meet scheduled for Friday, August 13th, so this day was just a flushing massage and warmup to ensure readiness to run well in tomorrow’s meet. The massage today felt really good, it was nice to get a nice light massage after all the painful fascia stuff of late.
Friday, August 13th- Austin High School
Time trial:
warmup
200m: 25.80
150m: 17.59
The meet was cancelled, so we decided to go to Austin High and do a time trial instead. I ran the 200m into a headwind, and never felt like I got it going properly in the first 30m, so the time was rather sluggish. I didn’t even feel tired at the end of this it was so slow. We took a 15 minute break and came back with a 150m going in the other direction. The last time I had a properly timed 150m was indoors, and I ran it in 18.75 or something like that, it was early on. Still, I was not expecting to run in the 17’s! I definitely ran it very well, I could feel myself cooking as soon as I hit about 50m, and it was effortless to get to 100m, and very easy coming through the last 50m split. I felt very tall and could only feel my hips and hamstrings, I was not pawing the track at all.
Still, the wind was fairly stiff, so I definitely got some help there. I was very happy with this time though. Overall though, I ran the entire thing very well, and the result was very good! These days at the track don’t happen very often, gotta enjoy them while you can!
We ended up going out for some terrific Puerto Rican food from a trailer at I-35 and 51st Street. It took a while for the food to be prepared, but that’s because it was made from scratch when we ordered- I could even see the guy peeling the plantain in the back. Austin has some great trailer food!