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    1st meet in 11 years

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        • Participant
          Blivit on March 24, 2009 at 1:37 am #15497

          I ran in my 1st meet in 11 years on saturday. I have really only been training for 3 months or so but spent almost one year before that in the gym lifting weights.

          I am really not proud of the numbers and almost do not want to post them here but what the heck. As an unattached runner I was against an all college crowd. So I was running against kids 10 years younger than me..I finished though and ended up with 8th overall in the 400m and 10th overall in the 200m.

          400m: 61.61
          200m: 26.23

          Going into it I felt a lot stronger than I did actually running the races. I now know things I need to work on but it felt good to be out there again.

        • Participant
          Floppel on March 24, 2009 at 11:38 am #79814

          Heh, this sounds a lot like what I will be doing soon, except that I gave myself one and a half year to prepare. Every time when the all comer meets were on I was sick or injured or didn’t feel ready. Oh man, time goes by so quickly…

          What kind of meet was it?

        • Participant
          Blivit on March 24, 2009 at 1:10 pm #79822

          Heh, this sounds a lot like what I will be doing soon, except that I gave myself one and a half year to prepare. Every time when the all comer meets were on I was sick or injured or didn’t feel ready. Oh man, time goes by so quickly…

          What kind of meet was it?

          Here in florida there are a lot of open meets which is why I decided to get back into it. There are a lot of professional runners in the area and a lot of facilities that hold meets. If I really wanted to, I could enter in a meet almost every weekend here from now until June.

        • Participant
          Floppel on March 25, 2009 at 8:56 am #79863

          Wow that’s awesome.
          Here in the SF bay area there’s the All Comer Meet series in Los Gatos, and that’s about it. I will start looking if I can find other meets in the area…

        • Participant
          Blivit on March 30, 2009 at 11:42 pm #80145

          Meet #2 this past Saturday

          This time I ran only the 200 and did so 7 days after my first meet (trained for 5 days and took 2 days rest.)

          I felt really strong and placed 2nd in my heat which felt really good but I still ran right around the same time.

          To my end though, I thought about my training some more and realized that I have only really been training to run for just over a month. To me, being able to come back after 11 years and train for a month and run these times makes me feel a bit better. But I am still a bit depressed over my times overall. I am really trying to work on my training now. I recently met Sekou Clarke (Jamaican 200/400 runner) here through a friend and asked if he would help me train to which he agreed so that should help.

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