Why? Sounds pretty healthy after a hard day, you doing an heptathlon?
no, i only did LJ today. Tommorow is HJ, hurdles, and jav… so a hep minus the running. My appetite has been raging more specifically for borderline/unhealthy food for days in a row… its excessive. 
honestly there is only so much more i can take
last year my bad day was good enough for 7th in the country, and this year i would be happy just to get back to where i was my sophomore year of HS. even the training week we’ve had isn’t enough to excuse the performances and i am sick of making excuses every meet anyway.
it is just making me really depressed, i managed not to cry all day but it was not that easy…
i hate this school
i want to go home
LOL. I read you message and I’m just laughing. This is what track and field is all about. I’ve been on that mood ever since I started sprinting. But actually. Its just not me. Its been everyone. We’re all on and off that mood all the time. Sports generally is a very stressful thing to manage. so much psychological damage. Ups and downs and so on. But you know what. Only these who survive all this are those who will get there. Cause these people who quit, always quit on one of the stressful bad times. And the rest go on until a few more quit and so on untill we get the rest. And the rest are these we watch on T.V. in major champs.
thanks for the brilliant analysis… if you want to laugh at my posts then go ahead, but there is no need to belittle my situation when there is a lot about me that you don’t know. i’m not a quitter and i’m not giving up, so hopefully that was what you were trying to get across.
day off today, i am eating my chocolate bunny 
AM lift:
-snatch-grip pull: 5x6 @95lbs
-1/3 squats, 2 second pause at the bottom, 5x6. I worked up to 250 lbs and was frustrated because it was too easy and I didn’t want to do more because I had already done 2 or 3 warmup sets and another group was waiting for the platform. At least I know for next time. squats paired with
-hamstring curls, toes turned inward, 5x4 @90lbs
-close-grip incline bench: 2x6@ 70, 2x4@75, 1x6@70, paired with
-close grip parallel chins: 5x4
I swear guys go to gold’s gym just to pick up girls- had a couple of dudes come over and hit on me… “do you have roommates in your hotel room?” sketchballs :rolleyes: My coach, who is 6’5 and built like an NFL player pretended to be my boyfriend.
shake, mooched bits and pieces of other people’s food for lunch, had a couple cups of coffee, relaxed
PM practice: there is a big thunderstrom coming so our coach wanted to get stuff done as fast as possible.
-zoomed through WU, short sprint drills, abbreviated dynamic hurdle drills
-3x (20,30,40) walk back between, 2-3 min. between sets.
It started to rain so we cut out multijumps and multithrows. My shin was hurting- it’s just as well that we cut out the other stuff because i’ll only take myself out of a practice if it’s excruciating pain, and when my leg is bad i probably don’t do that enough.
Otherwise I feel pretty good- had a mild panic attack last night so I had a little bit of breathing constriction but by the end of the sprints I felt fine. I let someone buy me dinner because I have: 5 gatorades, 1 fat-free yogurt, a single-serve packet of carrots, free coffee, and $8.51 in the bank. yessssssssss
You need to start getting guys to take on you out on dates just so you can get the free meal. Then when the night’s over let him down easy and tell him it’s just not gonna work out between you two. Do that a couple times a week and that’s a pretty decent money saver.
hahaha thats not a bad idea
drama at the track this morning- a girl on my team hurled a discus tool (basically a metal ball on a chain) into another girl’s head. she’s in intensive care now, stable but waiting for surgery for the dent in her skull.
so with the delay I ended up being at the track for almost 5 hours.
-full WU, hurdle skill circuit, hurdle drills
-HJ drills, approach run-throughs, 8-10 full jumps. started getting some more pop back
-shot standing throws progression, 10-12 full throws with light shot
-general strength circuit: abs, pushups, etc. with 100m runs in between, i think 800m total
-4x100m fast, 2 min. between
-long stretch
no afternoon practice, waiting for hospital news
left shin pain has suddenly reached a high level. continuing with frequent icing, massage, and advil… i have some $$ for food now, so maybe taking away that stress will help my leg.
Holy crap… Hope she’s OK…
my teammate had 6 hours of surgery and will recover to be fine and normal, no permanent brain damage. Another inch to the left and that could have been it- doctor said 5 out of 6 patients with an injury like hers die. It was lucky that she’s a pretty sturdy girl with thick bones, some of our distance girls wouldn’t have stood a chance. very scary :eek:
as for me, AM prac:
-WU, spint drills, buildups, no hurdle mobility
-4xfull approach on the track, 4xfull approach pop ups into the pit.
lift:
-3x6 stiff-legged deadlifts, light weight just to stretch out
-6-4-2-2-2 push-jerks, worked up to 75 lbs; not quite heavy enough. 3 min. btw
-3x6-8 close grip bench @75, paired with
-DB curls with wrist cocked, then rotate and lower with palms facing the ground for the negative. also 3x6-8 w/15’s
shake, and now i am icing and waiting around to get something to eat before 2nd session this afternoon.
RIP shin I told my coach that it was really bad while we were doing run-throughs, and he told me to try to ignore it and do stuff anyway. Probably the first time he’s ever told me to work through pain- I only speak up if it’s getting into excruciating territory, but I guess he really wanted to get this done since it’s the only LJ I will do this week. This afternoon is either short speed or endurance hurdle work plus a speed endurance run. ouchhh
PM session: muchhhh needed
-full WU, hurdle drills, sprint drills, a couple hurdle jog-throughs
-did a hurdle endurance workout with my head coach (the sprint guy) because that is where he thinks I am lacking as opposed to poor technique, and I agree. He jammed 12 hurdles (7 strides apart) so that the steps in between are more like high knees instead of full running strides, and then the last 20m or so were open to just sprint through. I did this 4 times through with about 2 min. between, then did 1x150 hard because my form was falling apart over hurdles. My butt pretty much fell off, I have missed this type of work!
-long jav drill series, very deliberate work on specific technique, a few short approach throws
My head coach informed me that we were going out to dinner- my field coach was supposed to come to but then had to stay late for some other kids to finish practice. I was kind of nervous but it turned out to be really good- I steered the conversation around to why I am underperforming, and I explained to him that I am used to doing some kind of running workout just about every day, and now I am doing them only a couple times a week. I also brought up my unhappiness with the lack of mobility between events, and he told me that he already seriously considered putting me in the 400 hurdles and he would like for me to run in open events in every meet if possible. He thinks I should tell my field coach that more running has worked for me in the past and see what he says… I already bug him about it so I’m worried he will get irritated, but it makes no sense to stay quiet and stick with a program that needs to be tweaked for me. I do feel better about finally having said something, and my coach agreed with me. plus he paid for my food which was great 
I iced my shin in between practices, had some advil, and put tiger balm on it… it doesn’t feel great and I will have to ice again, but it could be worse. My hamstrings are already feeling some soreness from the workout, but I need to get prepared to do 800m pacework tommorow morning yessssssss 
I love running
AM prac:
I felt like I was in fog, it was horrible, I couldn’t wake up even though I had coffee. I had soe gatorade before I ran which got my blood sugar up a bit.
-full WU, hurdle drills, hurdle skill circuit instead of sprint drills
-shot progression, standing throws, glides
-800 pace workout: 2x (400-200-200); 1 min. between runs, 10 min. between sets. My coach told me a specific pace to follow and didn’t want me to push it down because the purpose was to get used to the pacing. I was meant to go 72/73 and 36/37. I went 72-36-36 and 74.01-36-34. It felt very smooth and solid, not anything like the first time I did this workout which was horrible.
-strides, jogging
-15 min. continuous general strength circuit
afternoon off, we are leaving tommorow for a meet in virginia on saturday, then heading back to school. I will miss warm and sun :rolleyes:
Hamstrings and shin are sore, having only one session today was well-timed.
bus ride all day, now in virginia. it’s cold and wet and apparently the track surface is very hard which wouldn’t be nice on my shin. My hamstrings are also still sore and tight, so I may not compete tommorow, at least not in all three events. I went to the gym across the street which was filled with dirty old men and I was kind of uncomfortable being there alone at night so I didn’t do too much.
-20 min. bike, worked in 4x30s speed intervals, but mostly just wanted to loosen up the hams
-chins to warm up, bench 3x6 light and fast
-cleans: light and fast 6x2 @85, 1 min. between. 2x1 @95, 105. 2 min. between
it will be a sleepless night
running events were rained out at our virginia meet yesterday, most field events were still held inside. I HJed ok, threw shot not so well, then got onto the bus for 15 hours and arrived back at school at 6am. feel like deathhhhh
15 hour bus ride… damn I thought my 2 hour drives to meets were long…
repeat…
ya it was horrible
my coach was considering having us do a speed endurance workout at some point today, but i didn’t hear from him so i guess he decided not to. just as well, my hamstring is still a bit tight from the long ride. I slept most of the morning but I will need to sleep a lot tonight to keep from getting sick. the gym is closed so i don’t really have a choice but to take today off.
tommorow it is back to the same old routine, which of course includes my strict diet, so my two weeks of getting fat have officially ended :mad:
hamstring feels better today, i’d say 95%.
We are doing “testing” for the next couple days, so fletch gave us some neural options and left us to do what we wanted. The testing consist of 30m from stand, 30m flying, 150m, standing LJ, 600m, shot OHB and BLF, standing triple, and 25m speed hops over the next two days. I don’t know why it’s necessary to lose two days of training to do this or why we need to lose any training at all, but i guess thats the way it is.
-AM 30min. low-intensity elliptical
PM prac
-WU, sprint drills, dynamic hurdle drills
-2x(10,20,30) walk back between reps, 3 min. btw sets
-10 min. easy bike, 10 min. core circuit
-bench light and fast 4x6, 1 min btw
-cleans light and fast 5x2 1 min. btw, 1x1 heavy
Stimmed my left shin and iced both for 10 min. Unfortunately now I am loading up on caffeine in excess amounts because this testing will take up a lot of time with a big group and I have sort of a lot of work to take care of. 6 more weeks until classes are over… if I could stop failing econ sometime soon that would be awesome :rolleyes:
warmup, tested OHB shot, 25m single leg hops both legs, and standing LJ. We left out 30m and 150m because we had to make it to team meeting, so pretty much i didn’t do shit today and tommorow will be about the same. my shin hurts a lot, but what is of more concern is that my right ankle- the one I shot to hell last year- has started getting stiff and aching again.
i pretty much hate track right about now… not really hate it, but i am so frustrated. I have been working really hard and giving the program a fair shot and doing my best to do the little things right for SIX MONTHS with NO results, if anything i have gotten worse.
enough bitching, as soon as i start thinking about it too much i start to cry
off to model for 2 hours and then drink coffee and fuck around pretending to do work. I won’t really have time to go to the gym so i will have to just accept today as lost. i got 5.5 hours of sleep the past two nights with another late night tonight, i think it suits me :rolleyes:
have been having trouble sleeping, maybe because i have been drinking 5 cups of caffeine a day! it’s a killer week in school, i have been up until 1 or 2 for the past 3 nights and tonight will be no different and probably worse. last night i went to sleep around 2 and woke up at 7 before my alarm and lay in bed fretting until i had to get up at 8. everything for this week has to be done for tommorow so at least afterwards i can relax.
-comp warmup (shorter) + strides
-standing triple and BLF shot tests
-600m test: cruised relaxed in shoes to a 1:50. Once I was done I knew it was a little too easy and I hadn’t gone hard enough and my coach thought it could have been better too, but it was what it was. I was running with our other hep girl who tends to go out moderate and finish hard, while I need to get out hard and hang on to the end because i know I’m not one of those people who can make it up in the second half. I let her pace it which i should have realized would get me going slow. i would have expected more like 1:45.
-30min of hill intervals on the elliptical
-iced lower legs in the whirpool
I am starting to get that rundown feeling, all I need is to make it through tommorow pleaseeeee, I don’t want to get sick! My eating is all over the place, i need to sit down sometime when i have time and analyze all the nutrition threads and figure out what i should be eating because i have realized that my perceptions are all skewed. also ventured onto the scale today, NEVER AGAIN will i get near that evil device