Well I just had my first meet and there were some good points and very crappy points.
I got to talk to drivephase for a little bit and he looked pretty good today. He ran 6.56 I think in the prelims and then 6.59 in the final of the 55m (winning this very slow meet). I was in neither heat of his, but he ran very easy today with little to no competition at any point.
As for my meet, I started out by false starting in the prelims. I have never false started in my life (in track, in football, anything) and I was really disappointed in myself for that. Now, that starter had held us there for 4-5 seconds and the people to each side both twitched, but there is still no excuse for that.
I begged the meet directors to let me run in the final though. There were only two heats of prelims and there were supposed to be two heats of finals, so everybody made it. They let me run in the slow/1st section. I had a great start that time around, but around 20-25m or so I had an extremely sharp pain in my foot that I have had my plantar fascia issues with (right foot). I shut it down before I got to 30m and I hobbled through the line. I went 6.65, which I think is pretty decent given the circumstances. I talked with a guy and got to see his video (hopefully he will be e-mailing me a copy) and my last 10m was around 1.3, so I was slowing down pretty significantly. My start and acceleration was great–my foot just couldn’t handle it I guess. It felt great this morning and in my warm-up, so I was pretty surprised it gave me such problems.
Anyway, now I am finally back home and I have minimal pain in my heel (which had been the issue the past 2.5 months or so), but I now have a significant amount of tightness in the arch of my foot. I really am not sure what the deal is with this–if it is an injury, a cramp, or what. I’ll find out more tonight and tomorrow based on any pain/inflammation/etc.
The meet has really boosted my confidence from a standpoint that I know I am in great shape. I ran a 30m training PR (well not sure if it is PR because FPS is such crap, but it is at worst very close to training PR) and then today I probably went through 20-30m at a significant PR before I dropped off.
Now that I’m done writing that novel of an entry, looking forward to hearing how everyone else did this weekend.