im glad i found this journal.
I was never sure if this guy’s for real, but he always cracks me up. Keep moving…
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Try some ice 14 mins 3 x a day - then later hot & cold showers on it.
Don’t push the stretching too much at first, stay off the track and get in the pool for a couple of days.
G luck
YES THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ADVISE.
But you said days, i got hours brother.
But i want to compete today, i had a good sleep, and my carv feels better. Its just tight alittle bit, but when i stretch it, it loosens up.
Am going to ice it, now and all that.
WOAH! i have 3hours left until take off. Thats when i leave to go to the meeting, am crazy.
But i beleave i can do this!
ahhhhh i hate injuries!
CONFESSIONS PART 1
Yes i competed last night as i said i would. I tried so hard to get my calf better, but by the time the meeting. My calf was still sore, and tender i found it very hard to get up onto my toes.
Am a person, who dose’nt love myself, but i have a load of respect for myself. Well aleast i thought i did, but after yesterday. And what i put myself through, i serious am considering, who i am, and what i am trying to do.
Yes i went to the meeting, and did the 100meters. I missed the first race, which a 100% me would of won, the race was won in 11.50sec.
So as i run down, to the starting area trying not to put pressure on my left leg, i ask the man.
Can i do the second race, i quickly got change, and do a few stretches.
Am injuried, i did’nt even, warm up, and did some stretches, pathetic stretches.
as usaully, i was confident, as the first race finished the track organisors, told the second heat to get ready.
Yes as i said, i was confident and cocky, as usaully. I said to the track organisors, i will win this, yes i will, as long as my leg does’nt blow.
Everyone in the race, hears me saying this.
At this point in time, am thinking to myslef, this is’nt a race. I was in the race with to old men, and 40, and other people, that did’nt intimindate.
This is because i missed the first, and best heat.
The started calls, on your marks. Still am totally, disrespecting myslef. I can feel my leg, sore, as i get down into starting position.
I was last to get ready, because i like to do this.
GO!!!
The only thing good about the race was my reaction, the rest was just pain. I should of pulled out at 50meters, as i look back and remember now.
But still, i don’t want to loose, i push on. Risking injury, and a season maybe.
I was running flat footed, on my left side, and was’nt really pushing off. Still i carryon, this was silly of me.
But as i get about 20meters out, i see the clock, its on 10. This hits me like a knife into my heart, the rest 20meters of that race.
Was the longest of my life, i was very emtional.
I just walk away from the athletes when they try to shake my hand, i was in a world of my own.
I had just disrespected myself. And am admitting it, i made a fool of myslef.
I have run 1.50sec faster than what i run, just three days early.
CONFESSION PART 2
As i walk off to get my bag, i was even thinking. My heart was just in my mouth, i was very close to tears. Because i was so pissed off, i don’t even think i won the race.
I came seocond! pathetic, and i was saying this over and over again, as i walk down the track.
For some crazy reason, i now desided to run the 200meters. Which starts in 15mins, i warm up, trying to ignore the pain in my calf.
Then it all just hits me in one moment, i just begin to get change, and say to myself, am not putting myself through this.
Confessions part 3
That night when i arrived home, my mum asks me how i got on, i mubble something. My mum knew something was wrong.
I make something to eat, and just sit there starring at the T.V, not even paying attention to what was on the televsion. Over and over again, in my head. Am saying to myself, i can’t beleave i have just did that today.
made a fool of myself.
This is twice i have did this, first i run the 400m with the flu, and now i run with a messed up leg. As i sit there, eating my chillie con carne, for the first time in my life, i dout myself.
Why am i doing track and feild, what am i here for, can i run sub 11, can i run sub 22, can i run sub 50. (for once in my life, there was no confidents)
19years of my life, and i have never, not beleave in myself, i my have considered loosing, and all that, as a kid. But everything i have did, ever sport i have had beleif.
I can even remember as a kid, i would always want it, the hard way. Having races, i would give ridiculous head starts, to other children. Everyone in the play ground would dout me, and i loved it. WATCH ME DO THIS, WITH MY CURLING HAIR PEOPLE!
I considered, packing it all in, track and feild LAST NIGHT. But then, i her 99 problems by jay z.
I feel the beat, flowing through my viens. I frawn, risers on my four head. I begin to nod my head, the cat is looking up at me, in the kitchen wondering. What the hell is he doing, then i say to myself am going to do this.
The only thing that can stop me is myself, i will return, and do what i beleave i can do.
Alot of people dout me, and i love this. I feed off that kind of energy, am not scared of putting pressure on myself. And am not scared of saying what i want to do!
its just my personality.
From this day on, i said to myself. I will train but train smartly, and i will choose my meetings, cleverly and right for me no stress. I don’t give a dam, what sate the club is in.
Track and feild is not a team sport, and it is me against them, don’t get me wrong, i will do what i can do.
But the fact of the matter is, is that i injured myself, competing for the club. Doing events like the high jump, that i don’t train for.
Even though am still the best!
I was down on myslef, last night. But today i was a different person, i trainned down at my track.
I did 60’s and 30’s, my leg felt fine, just alittle but tight, but way way beter than the other day.
I will not compete now for 5weeks, i will just train hard.
I will be back for revenge, on all the douters, and haters.
I respect all my compedators, i hope for the best to all of them.
But its me against them, and just like in a boxing fight, i must take them all out.
am cocky, and am Arrogant
and i kind of like it!
I will try my best to turn negative into a positive!
Hey Mr shumon, I really don’t know how on earth have I missed this journal for all that time. I have voted for you on the poll. You ARE the best no doubt. Don’t worry man. You’ll do it all. Just work smart. That is train hard when you can, moderate when you need and stop when you must. You’ve got calf injury so wait for a while and then train again. I have lost about 3 - 4 years of my training life injured because I can’t wait. I would be running 9s now if I would’ve just waited. So Can you please do me a favor and rest your leg pleease. I want to see you in the Beijean olympic final. I know I’m going!!! Thats because I have learnt about massage and I know when to train and when to stop and when to not over do it. Please take care and if you need any help just tell me.
take care budy
Man thanks, it means alot to hear some positive thoughts. I have been massaging my leg, i do massage in college.
Dam you can run sub 11, i wish i could do that.
I know i can do it it is just a matter of time, this september i will start to train weight training pacific for my needs.
I read all of this site, and i have learnt alot, over time. And i will put togther a weight training programme, this winter.
If i can run sub 11, this year of just track workouts, and i doing some moderate strength work. (body weight exercisors).
thank you
Now you have to unlock your thinking. 10sec 100m is eeeeasy. Trust me. its does take some training. but its straight forward. you getorganized and you run 10. Look shuman. Give me your e-mail. I’ll send you some of the things I used to do when I was an 11 guy and what type of things I had to do to run 10s and then what I did to get to my personal best and so on. I know I’m not perfect but I know that you may take some help out of it if you need. Take care of your self man. I usually don’t give my work to anyone but I can see it in your eyes! If you know what I mean.
So todays stuff.
I have just watch Asafa Powell, and i think he was WOAH. This man gets me excited, like Maurice Greene, i did’nt think any other athlete could. Also i think he is great talent, am trying to keep things in context. BUt he is taking over, and everyone knows am right.
I thought he was going to run 10XX at 50meters, but then Powell reached another level.
I see by the way that he walks, and the confidents i can feel off him, he will be king.
I hope Maurice Greene can do something speacial to win the world champs, but i think he is facing his toughest athlete yet, asafa powell.
and athletes, i don’t have to mention there names, plus everyone beleaves that they can beat each other. Justin gatlin, Shawn Crawford, Leonard scott, Obikwelu, and guys like Kim Collins, god dam the lists goes on.
Greene says he has something for them, i hope so.
And all this talk about who is the greatest sprinter of all time, well i thin it is already Maurice Greene, but if he wins the world champs this year.
Don’t even mention Ben Johnson or Carl Lewis, on the same breath as him.
Its not just the championships Greene has won, it who he has beaten to get them, very tough athletes.
DONOVON BAILEY 9.84SEC
BURIN SURIN 9.84SEC
TIM MONTGOMMERRY 9.85SEC
And yet to mention all his indoor titles, and his brinze medal last year, in the fastest race of all time.
four guys 9.xx
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so todays trainng
5x200m, in sets of two, with 2min recovery inbetween each rep, and 10min for sets.
I think tis is vital that i do this kind of work, becuase am a allround sprinter 100, 200, 400. Plus i have missed a fair bit of these training sessions.
I did the first two sets in 25sec, but the last two sets, i did not enjoy. I did them in 27sec.
I was going to drop out after the second set because i ahd nothing left, but i know i must train hard.
I remember way i was doing this, and to acheive you must knock down walls, noting is easy.
Out of tradgey i triumphy, i have done this is life, now i will do it on the track.
I wil be doing these in 24sec, all of them, in 3weeks, my body adapts very quickly when i train, i have nocticed this.
On satuday, i will do my speed work, and i will throw in 150s, just two of them, flat out with 6mins inbetween.
I will compete in one weeks, time. But there is a twist i will do the long jump, and a 100meters.
i am not putting any pressire on myself, am not saying that i will do this, and that.
Am just going inot the meet with, a open mind. And a smile, of my face!
I might even do a 400meters, i don’t know yet. But am for sure, doing two events.
Tommorow, i wil just relax, and recovery for saturday.
might take a trip inot college, i have’nt been in all week.
BUt i will blast my work next week.
It was good training, will my trianing gorup tonight. I tied up badly in the last two sets, but i can oly improve, and build on this.
I just wnated to finish the workout!
Am a crazy kind of person, and i do crazy stuff. I train with a few 800meter guys, and they go one about how, tough the event is.
I know they are right, it is very tough, the tougest event.
my hats off to them!
And some time tis season, i will exsperinece this. Am the most versitile athlete.
I thin i could run 2min.10sec, just for fun i will do one this season.
Am trainng hard, and smart. Am thinking about what am doing, going over my trainng.
I go about sub 11, but at the same time, i want to run sub 50.
i know i have the abilty to do this, but sub-10, means the most to me.
I would be happy with 50.xx, by the end of the season. Ive run 52secs, tis year so far.
after a 200meters, and 100meters.
Right at the begining of the season.
than you very much
oh i have just seen the poll, about all the training journals. And i see i am doing, quite well.
I read other journals, on here, and they are very organized. I see the way other athletes set out there training programmes, day by day.
But me personally, its too many numbers. And i don’t like maths, i did’nt even pass it.
Am a vocal kind of guy, and i like to get vocal, i don’t like numbers.
But i don’t think i am organised, and am very unpredictable, and up and down I have went back to the begining of my journal, and red some of the stuff.
And i think that am crazy, i had to delete some of the stuff, becuse it was too crazy.
I certain amount of organisation is needed, in life. BUt never become too organized, people who are organised,and know what they are doing day in day out, are very borring.
The element of surprize, is good.
For example if you have a girl friend, or wife, if your a man. Or even if you like a gril, and you have your eye on her.
The element of surprize is good, be different stick her mind.
Being organized is borring, and i just wanted to say that.
I say thank you to the people who have voted for me. Personally, am happy, with a hand full of people voting for me.
That makes me feel good, to know that someone noticing my crazy journal.
I won’t change the way i right, because its me.
I started this journal as a laugh, and i was just messing about, i was’nt very serious. But thens time went on, i got more serious.
so thats it!
Keep doing your thing, Mr. Cool.
I like reading your journal, you have an interesting story everyday :o keep it up.
Yes today, i got up at 12 o,clock i have two peieces of bread with nuttella on them, and a drink of water.
I know this is’nt a good breakfast, but i needed to get out and train, early, because around 2. All little kids will be messing about, around the track, and they will annoy me.
I mean, they don’t mean no harm. Most of teh time they are just very curious with what i am doing.
So what was on the agenda today
4x60meters with 2min recovery
10mins rest
2x150meters with 6mins recovery
10mins rest
broad jumps x6 three stes of these 2min rest inbetween sets.
10mins rest
single leg bounds
then a nice warm down.
Well aleast i thought it was the end but i was surprized, to see one of the tougest athletes, in the sport.
Yes a 800meter runner, i respect these guys.
But you know, us sprinters are the heavyweights, and it will always be that way. But i almost look at the 800meters, as a sprint, its the new sprint event. (but am crazy)
So yes, one of my training parteners, turn up to train,on there own. I timed him on all of his runs, and then. He said that he would time me over 100meters!
I just did it for a laugh, my legs where dead, but i did’nt care. Sprinting is what i enjoy, so thats what i was going to do.
He timed me at 11.8sec, i was happy with that after all my hard work.
Am enjoying trianing, and when i go the sauna, i listen to people. Who say,
“oh i did this and that, in the gym today, am dead, i find it hard to keep coming”
These people go on as if, trianing is hard, if its holding there life back, but some love it.
Me i love training, when i feel the pain, i know i am doing it for a reason. And that reason is to learn and improve.
But today, i felt very go on all of my sprints.
Your wondering why i have give the title of this post.
Well am a sensitive person, and deep too.
I train three days a week, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
And everytime, i walk home, i see a special gril. Am getting deep here, but i don’t care.
I mean no harm!
Yes so this girl, why is she speacial. Because i like her, and she is stuck in my mind.
And am not the type of guy who, gets like this. I can just laze about, and not even GET be bothered with grils.
Well this girl, i seen her when i was out over christmas. I confessed, and said she was all that, and i wanted to take it further.
(I did’nt say it like that, i can’t repeat what i said, because i was drunk as hell)
well she did’nt give me a kiss, i could’nt understand why she did’nt give me one.
But now i know that she has a man. And everytime, i walk to training. I see her and him go past, in a different car everyday.
She knows its me, i see her look at me. Well this guy dose’nt look goOd, he looks like a fool.
Also everytime, i see her with her mates. I hear her say, theres that guy.
I would say something but am shy.
I see her, with her man. In the cars, and all that.
Well i have’nt got none of that. Am a bum, i have no job, i got no money.
I just get money off my parents.
But i have got one thing, and thats. I know how to threat a woman.
I like to make them smile, you know what i mean.
I have’nt got money, all i have got is love.
And i don’t think most grils these days, appreciate men like me.
And thats that.
I have gotten abit deep here, and i don’t know why.
I am sorry for going off the topic.
The next time i will train is on tuesday, i will go the sauna, tommorow. To do that hot and cold stuff so i will recover for tuesday.
Because i think i am going to be sore, tommorow.
So if you have red this, thanks.
MIKE TYSON V KEVIN MCBRIDE COME ON TYSON!
WOOOOOOO
Nutella is AWESOME.
I know you went deep in your post and I’m commenting on the nutella…
So I’ll say a few more words. There are a FEW nice guys who are all about love and caring and there are also a FEW nice girls and it’s hard for those selected few to find each other, but NEVER settle for anything less.
Go for what you want, and not for what is easy out there.
Just in case anyone was wondering
am
height 5"11
weight 10stone 8pounds
Martial status: Love Machine
i know how you feel man. just keep your head up, youll find a girl thats worth having.
I will always love you Mike. Stars shine bright and give of tremendous energy.But they all burn out.
One of the most talented sports athletes ever, his best years wasted.
He has made a impact on sport and the world, with the force of a comet!
Thank You
If this the end, of a 20year journey.
Am very pissed off, with everything. Everything is going to exsplode, and am going to loose control. I have got until the end of the weak to do all my college work, otherwise i am out.
Am the kind of person who goes of the rails.
My club is annoying me, because i find all the athletes annoying, and weak. None of them think like me.
Plus my training group is the best, its good sociliseing and all that, all help each other. But the other sides of are club who train in different places are silly.
I am the most underated athlete, in my club.
But am angry, and am training with bad intensions.
Am not just going to beat these guys, am going to destory them.
I think college work, and life its self, is building up anger inside of me.
It going to be hard in college, and i hope i don’t bump into any foo’s.
interupting my work.
am trying to do work now online, but i find it crap.
Why do we have to go to college, i enjoyed school. As a kid, having fun messing about.
But now, this is just taking the piss.
Life would be so easy if you could just choose, what you wanted to be, and then train you there and then.
Am just lazy, and am academdically unchallange, i beleave i am brighten than most students who go to oxford, or any of the other major universitys in the world.
Its just that i think differenet, my brain is in a different gear.
It am not motavate to do something i won’t do it.
am not challange, or motavated to do anywork this week.
I have applied for universitys, but am not really bother about going. There is more to life, than studying.
I will make sure i finish college. BUt if i don’t go to universosty tis year, i will get a job. This will be the first job of my life. I will try to travel abit, also i will train.
weight training, full time, 100%.
Life about enjoying yourself, and having fun, and if you are not .
Get out of it, and do something that you enjoy.