My quest for 6.7

[Track_man]

@syrus2001

Got to test out the World junior track today at a prep meet the organizers put on to test out all the procedures. They had us check in 50 minutes before, call in was 15 minutes before event. We had to go to a marshaling area and were walked out and everything. Pretty legit. The stadium is amazing, mondo super x everywhere. Unfortunately the stadium is windy as hell.

They had a slight mess up. They never called the mens 100m, instead they called 2 extra heats of womens 100m for which no one showed up. We got the whole thing sorted out 10 minutes before we had to race.

My shoulder was killing me and was feeling pretty crappy so during my warm up I had pretty much scratched the 200m by then.

They didnt post the results for the 100 anywhere and they didnt post them up on the board. I came 2nd in the race next to a friend of mine. The time popped up on the instant clock as 10.85 for the winner. I could feel a headwind as I ran the last 40m of the race. Apparently the meet director will email the official results at some point.

I’m going to try to predict what I ran and the conditions based on what I know the winner ran. He had recently run 10.52s at a meet a few weeks ago, so its a good bet to say it was a headwind. I felt as though I was closer to him than the last time we had raced, which I was .27s away from him (10.66 him and 10.93 me).

Based on that my prediction is that I ran 10.95-11.05s with a -2 m/s wind.

I was hoping to run a 10.8, or something that converts to a 10.8, given that I was training through this meet, it would be a pretty good result.

I’ll post up the official results whenever I get them.

Also I forgot to mention that I gained a fair bit of weight during the bobsled camp and have been trying to cut back down to my pre bobsleigh 194lbs. Currently at 201.

At national juniors, the wind was strong to the point where the fastest 100 time didn’t even break 11 seconds. Bit worse than -5m/s