Friday, August 13th- Therapy day
I wasn’t excessively sore from the 200m / 150m time trials yesterday, but there was definitely some soreness in my left hamstring and glute. This has been a bit of an ongoing problem over the past couple of weeks. I’ve always had a bit more soreness in my left hamstring than my right after hard workouts, and today was no different. I got some work done in the hamstrings, glutes, and hip flexors, with of course some loosening in the lower gastroc and always-tight soleus.
Sunday, August 15th- Austin High School
Tempo workout:
warmup
2x250, 2x200, 1x150, 3 mins between reps
This day was blistering hot, and I ran through each of the 200m splits in about 30 seconds. The rest was 3 minutes, which is normally long for me, but in 105 degree heat, it feels short as hell! I did a nice job of finishing up with a strong 150m, even though I dogged it in the last 50m a little bit. The Austin masters club was out doing their workout at the same time, and I really couldn’t make sense of it.
There was a warmup with drills, then a lot of medball throws that looked somewhere between explosive and non-explosive, but there was a lot of volume, probably over 200 throws.
Then they got on the track and did even more explosive type throws, and eventually, after about an hour of warming up and throwing, they did a bunch of speed work. Bizarre. You get what you pay for!