My quest for 6.7

Track_man · July 19, 2010, 8:10pm

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

syrus2001 · July 20, 2010, 9:42pm

Still no word on the results from that meet. The meet organizer must be busy with the real world juniors to bother. I’m sure they will surface sometime. The winds were decent today in the 100m heats though.

Did a smaller workout and lower CNS load today.

2x150m
15x 21lb kettlebell back throws (15.7m best)
5x5 good mornings @ 175lbs

Tomorrow evening I leave for Moncton to watch thursday and friday’s World junior action.

RB34 · July 20, 2010, 9:46pm

What are your ohb/blf pr’s??

syrus2001 · July 21, 2010, 10:28am

My over head back throw bests are:

4kg/8.8lbs women’s shot: 20.8m/68.4 feet
7.26kg/16lb men’s shot: 17.8m/58.4 feet

And various distances with the different weights:

21lbs: 15.7m
8kg: 16.5m

RB34 · July 21, 2010, 10:34am

Board or flat surface?

syrus2001 · July 21, 2010, 10:36am

Off the shot put toe board, although the 8kg toss was done on flat.

RB34 · July 21, 2010, 10:38am

How much distance you think you gain off the board?

rainy.here · July 21, 2010, 11:49am

Not more then 20cm; usually less. It depends on angle and speed of release, but that would be about the upper end.

syrus2001 · July 24, 2010, 11:56am

Just got back yesterday from Moncton, watched 2 days of World juniors, some pretty good action.

I got back yesterday and went for a light workout. My legs were so tight from sitting in the car the whole ride back that the speed endurance was pretty bad so i cut it to 2 runs instead of 3.

2x120m

3x5 box squats @ 295
3x12 weighted hip thrusts @ 225

Can’t wait to unload, my body is falling apart. Still a little heavy, in the 199lb range. This indoor season I’m going to really clean up my diet and try to get down to 185-189 which i believe is my optimal race weight.

syrus2001 · July 25, 2010, 2:18pm

Last workout before my taper. Much needed taper. The bobsled week took a larger toll on my body than I had anticipated. The side effects didnt really show up until a few weeks later as tightness and fatigue. I wanted today to be more intense than normal to make up for the taper that will follow.

4x flying 20m

15 minute break

100m

15 minute break

120m

syrus2001 · July 27, 2010, 11:45pm

4x5 ohb throws with 21 and 16lbs

1x150m @ 17.5s

RB34 · July 27, 2010, 11:52pm

Found your results?? What’s up with the 17.5?

syrus2001 · July 29, 2010, 8:00pm

No results yet. The 17.5 is just to control the intensity during my taper. Doing things submaximal.

Today:

10x back throws
4x20m blocks

1x80m @ 9.7s

Been having a tough time relaxing during my sprints so I did a 120m, that was 30m full out, 90m no effort, completely relaxed, like the easy part of an FEF.

3x3 box squats @ 295

RB34 · July 29, 2010, 8:02pm

When does your season end?

syrus2001 · July 29, 2010, 11:13pm

I’ve got a meet on Aug. 3rd, going to run the 100m and 200m. Another meet on the 9th and then my last meet of the season on the 14th. I’ll run both the 100m and 200m at both. I think only the last meet has heats and finals for the 100m.

They’ll be pretty high quality meets. The middle one will be on the world junior track again. This time I’ll get some results though.

syrus2001 · July 30, 2010, 5:31pm

Check out the seed list for the meet I’m running on the 3rd. This is our big local meet.

Event: Men’s 100m
Pos Name Category Team Seed
1 Dix, Walter Senior UNA 9.98
2 Perry, Willie Senior TRIA 10.13
3 Leblanc, Michael Senior S.E. 10.17
4 Smith, Oluseyi Senior OTTL 10.31
5 Agyapong, Ashhad Senior UNAT 10.32
6 Barnett, Bryan Senior CAP 10.36
7 Adu-Bobie, Richard Senior OTTL 10.47
8 Bawol, Michael Senior HAC 10.79
9 Macadam, Gerry Senior ISLA 11.00
10 Bouchard, Jason Senior FLT 11.18
11 Higgins, Sean Senior UNA 11.44

Unfortunately its a 7 lane track and I’ll have to run the B section.

Track_man · July 31, 2010, 12:00pm

When’s your yearly break?

syrus2001 · July 31, 2010, 2:49pm

After the meet on the 14th, I’ll take some time off. Probably until the start of september then I’ll start up GPP again. I’ll take a full week off, then the following weeks will be active but no track stuff.

syrus2001 · August 2, 2010, 2:03pm

Sunday:

7xback throws with the shot

5x block starts

Feeling good for the meet

syrus2001 · August 4, 2010, 12:24pm

Meet was a little disappointing. I had a feeling that the month of bobsled training and testing took its toll on my SE fitness because going into my first meet I was quite adapted to these SE workouts and in decent 200m shape. When I got back from calgary I felt as though that was gone and didnt feel as good on the 120’s and 150’s.

100m:

11.10 (-2w)

Was feeling really good in the warm up. I was put in the B section and 2nd place next to me was 12.00s. So there wasnt any competition in that heat. The winds were brutal, swirling from -2 to +1 from one race to the next. For the 200m, there was a huge headwind on the curve that disappeared once you hit the straight because of the stands that blocked it.

200m:

23.00 (-0.2w)

The 200 is what shows me that I’ve lost that fitness that I had at the beginning of the year. If things were more ideal I would’nt have lost it during that month, but I guess that is the sacrifice I had to make.

2 more meets left in the season. All I’m going to do between now and then is maybe have an odd SE session to try and top myself up. We’ll see how things go.