[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 16, 2010 at 12:13 am #16666

Hi there! I got already here a long time ago but for some reason didn’t register. After hearing about Craig’s TJ I’ve been following the discussion quite intensely. So why not to put up my own TJ since I’m training regularly and spending some of my daily time on the site.

I’m 23-year-old guy (177cm/79kg) focusing on the 100. I ran 60 metres 7 flat this indoor season, actually twice (6.999, 6.997) annoyingly.. 😀 I got these marks already in the very beginning of the season (2nd and 3rd meet), then I had a flu and it took some time to recover. As a result I couldn’t improve anymore, however. This made me think that I didn’t get to my peak. I hope it will bring me some extra motivation to reach a new level at summer competition season.

I’m planning to go sub-10.90 in the 100 this year. I’m competing in 200 as well at least a couple of times, but the main focus is on the 100. I’m not really a 200 type of a guy. 100 PB is in the low 11’s (and wind-aided 10.94), but I’d like to think I’ve had the capability to go legal sub-11 for some years already (eg. 20 flying 1.98 like five years ago) but I’ve just had injuries and other stuff (eg something called univ studies) interrupting my training.

Some of my current 2010 numbers in the weight room:

power clean 3* 115 kg
bench press 5* 115 kg
squat ATG 6* 155 kg
half-squat 6* 245 kg

I’m looking forward to share my training logs here!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 16, 2010 at 12:34 am #97345

I hate to start my training journal with a shit training like this. I was supposed to have a rest day, but in the morning I had unexpected longing for upper body training, so I decided to give it a shot. After a few sets I realized that it wasn’t a good idea at all, I wasn’t recovered from last training. I choosed to complete the full schedule even though my level was a bit lower than usual.

15 Apr
Strength/ upper body
bench press 6* 90 kg, 3* 110 kg, 2* 120 kg, 6,6* 105 kg
barbell shoulder press 10* 50 kg, 6* 70 kg, 4* 80 kg, 6* 70 kg
chin-ups 6* BW+20 kg, 6* BW+15 kg, 10,8* BW
some core work

[Matt Norquist]

Matt Norquist on April 16, 2010 at 1:07 am #97349

Welcome to the forums.

What is your training progression like? What are your plans?

With a 7.00 60, I think 10.90 is exteremely doable – in fact you should already be there.

In my experience, a 7.0 converts to around a 10.85-10.9 – even when run at the same time. Assuming you continue to progress over the year and get to a 6.8 or 6.9 60m equivalent I’d think you could get down to 10.75 or so.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 16, 2010 at 2:51 am #97353

Welcome to the forums.

What is your training progression like? What are your plans?

With a 7.00 60, I think 10.90 is exteremely doable – in fact you should already be there.

In my experience, a 7.0 converts to around a 10.85-10.9 – even when run at the same time. Assuming you continue to progress over the year and get to a 6.8 or 6.9 60m equivalent I’d think you could get down to 10.75 or so.

Thanks! I really hope to reach that level. I’m used to perform quite nicely in the indoors but somehow I’m able to screw up my condition before summer. I’ll try to be at my level this time!

Currently I’m running 2-3 times per week and lifting 3 times per week. The running sessions consists of special endurance (eg 5*120m 5’rec), speed (mostly block accels 30/50) and some easy running (eg 120+150+180+200+180+150+120, 2′). Lifting consists of max strength training (power clean, jerk, etc., 2-5 reps), basic strength for legs (squats etc., 4-6 reps) and upper body.

I also have some plyometric sections in the beginning of running sessions and I’ll be doing some med ball throws and circuit training for middle section once in a while.

I haven’t yet trained with spikes at all after the indoor season, I’ll be starting next week. If everything goes as planned, I’m going to begin my comp season by running some 100’s in the end of May. However, as I’m living in the cold north, the odds are that the weather might actually be quite chilly at that point of year, so let’s see…

[Craig Pickering]

Craig Pickering on April 16, 2010 at 7:34 am #97360

Hi Indigo, good luck with your goals. Just to add to Matts comments, when I ran 6.95 I also ran 10.70, so you should be well on course to go sub-10.90. Im happy to help if you have any questions!

Where are you based? What do you do with your life, at uni, or working?

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 16, 2010 at 8:17 pm #97387

Hi Indigo, good luck with your goals. Just to add to Matts comments, when I ran 6.95 I also ran 10.70, so you should be well on course to go sub-10.90. Im happy to help if you have any questions!

Thanks! That sounds encouraging as I’m quite sure 6.95 would have been right there if I hadn’t got sick. On the other hand I’m not as good with the max speed as I’m with the blocks, so sub-10.90 will be challenge enough.

Where are you based? What do you do with your life, at uni, or working?

I’m based in Finland and studying in the uni of technology, mostly IT and management. I’m not trying to push forward my studies too quickly, after all working is something you end up doing the rest of your life anyway! I’m also working part-time in a web tech company. It’s gonna change to full time since June, which means it might be a bit problematic to combine training and a full-time job.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 17, 2010 at 4:23 am #97402

16 Apr
Easy running
warm-up, static and dynamic stretching, drills
120-150-180-200-180-150-120 with trainers, walk recovery
contrast accels 3*30

I felt some sudden pain in my left ankle while doing single-leg bounds. Luckily it wasn’t anything serious as it didn’t affect the rest of the session at all. Running was comfortable. I’ve had lately some lower leg pain, which is because of mixing plyos and a lot of running, but it wasn’t an issue today.

I’m doing this training in a 400-meter mondo indoor track. The track is quite nice with almost outdoor track equivalent curves. I just don’t like to do any kind of endurance training indoors because of the dry air, it’s so much more difficult to breathe if you compare with carrying out the same session outdoors!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 17, 2010 at 11:08 pm #97439

17 Apr
Leg strength
warm-up at the track
1. squat ATG 6* 130 kg, 4,3* 160 kg, 6* 140 kg
2.a) one-leg hamstring curl 6* 40 kg, 6* 45 kg, 5* 50 kg, 8* 35 kg
2.b) calf raise 15,15,15* 85 kg
3. X-squat 6* 150 kg, 6* 180 kg, 6* 240 kg, 6* 200 kg
4. barbell hip thrust 8* 140 kg, 6* 180 kg, 4* 220 kg, 10* 160 kg

Nothing special today, basic schedule. It was a sunny day outside so decided to jog a few laps at the track for a warm-up, I usually never do that before gym.

Got greetings from a friend from Barcelona! She will be part of the athlete-welcoming organization in the European Championships later this year. See the pic, I got a nice T-shirt! 🙂

The new mondo surface, technically identical to Beijing’s track, is already built to the Olympic Stadium of Barcelona. It turns out to have a blue and partly green surface (pics) . As we know, Lindford Christie set an olympic-gold winning 9.96 eighteen years ago at the same venue (vid), let’s see how the European Championships will turn out. Hope to see Craig manage well there!

It seems to be a bit unlikely that I would clock a sub-10.45 and be top-three in my country :D, so maybe I’ll just pay a short visit to Barcelona during the EC as a tourist, let’s see! Visited Barca last September and really liked the place!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 19, 2010 at 1:20 am #97500

18 Apr
Warm-up and drills
warm-up at grass 20′
dynamic and static stretching
drills, hip mobility work
core work 20′
more static stretching

Wuhuu, I’m feeling good about the nice sunny weather! Temperature is not yet high enough to do speed work or any other more intensive training outdoors but for an easy warm-up like today, it was perfect! Glutes and hams appear to be sore after yesterday’s work-out so there’s not too much expectations for block session tomorrow though.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 20, 2010 at 6:51 am #97549

19 Apr
Blocks + special endurance
warm-up, drills, dynamic stretching
accel runs and block testing with trainers
blocks 3* 30 m + 1* 60 m
-> electronic timing without RT: all sub-3.90, quickest 3.81
3* 100 m from the curve with trainers 90+%, 5′ rec

The first time with spike shoes this season, the result: consistently under 3.90 and quickest 3.81 which is not so far away from my best of 3.79 (December -09). Recently I’ve been lifting heavy so today was a satisfactory, to say the least. Took the first 30 blocks with trainers 3.88 (wtf!?), which might have been a timing error since I couldn’t improve significantly with spikes. Additionally clocked the 60 m in 6.88 seconds – acceleration is fine but max speed is not there yet. The first couple of metres from the blocks are poor as well, hope to get better soon.

[fletchy100]

fletchy100 on April 20, 2010 at 8:00 am #97552

great strength and times here mate, good luck with everything. Wish i was running 6.88 without my top speed ‘not being quite there’ yet haha.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 20, 2010 at 8:46 am #97553

great strength and times here mate, good luck with everything. Wish i was running 6.88 without my top speed ‘not being quite there’ yet haha.

Cheers bro! Anyway, the RT is not included to 6.88 which makes it more like low 7 in the official comp setting, still getting there!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 21, 2010 at 1:22 am #97280

20 Apr
Max strength
power clean 3* 115 kg, 1,2* 120 kg, 4* 115 kg, 5* 110 kg, 5* 100 kg
half-squat 6* 205 kg, 6* 235 kg, 4* 255 kg, 6* 195 kg, 6* 185 kg
explosive one-leg hamstring curl 4*6
depth jumps 2*6
accel runs with trainers 3* 30 m

I was a bit nervous lifting the first set @ 120 kg in power clean and failed to get a double. Second set was technically much better and managed 2 reps, nice! Clean has been gradually going up, let’s keep it that way!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 21, 2010 at 10:45 pm #97613

21 Apr
Upper body strength
bench press 3* 110 kg, 3* 117.5 kg, 3* 122.5 kg, 8* 105 kg
barbell shoulder press 6* 50 kg, 6* 70 kg, 5* 85 kg, 6* 50 kg
lat pulldown 8* 85 kg, 6* 95 kg, 4* 110 kg, 8* 90 kg
core work
jogging/walking at the track

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 23, 2010 at 5:18 am #97653

22 Apr
Blocks, speed
warm-up, dynamic/static stretching, drills
build-ups 2* 60 m
block starts 3+3 front/back leg
sled pulls 3* 30 m
block starts 3* 30 m
2* 60 m in spikes, three-point start, 6′ rec

more stretching later

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 24, 2010 at 1:08 am #97682

23 Apr
Special endurance
warm-up and stretching
some drills; A-skips, B-skips, high knees, bounding
accel runs 6* 30 m
200 (23.9”) + 180 (20.6”) + 150 (16.8”), 8′ rec
warm-down

Today was okay but once again, I hate the indoor track’s dusty and dry air :/ The idea was to accelerate rigidly, then ease up a bit and again accelerate slightly to the end.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 24, 2010 at 11:26 pm #97710

24 Apr

Leg strength

warm-up at the track

1. squat ATG 3* 140 kg, 1* 170 kg, 5,4* 150 kg

2.a) one-leg hamstring curl 6* 40 kg, 6* 50 kg, 6* 45 kg

2.b) calf raise 20,20,20* 85 kg

3. X-squat 6* 170 kg, 6* 220 kg, 4* 242.5 kg, 6* 210 kg, 6* 170 kg
4. barbell hip thrust 6* 180 kg, 5* 210 kg

Feeling down today. Reaaaalllly disappointed with my squat effort, I was aiming for a double @ 170 kg, but just managed one. The first rep was easy though. The later sets felt extremely heavy.

X-squat feels good. Maybe sprinter (high) split squat or such would be a better name for this movement. I’m used to call it x-squat since Xavier Carter does it in a youtube video. I’m squatting atg with free weights but x-squat is carried out in a smith machine: the bar is fixed and it can’t carry anymore than 242.5 kg so I’m not gonna search for more weight here. The positive thing, however, is that ~200 kg feels relatively easy and I can do the repetitions fairly fast. It’s a high squat and that is why I’m using quite a heavy weight.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 26, 2010 at 12:38 am #97726

25 Apr

Warm-up and drills

jogging/walking 20’

stretching and drills

core work

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 27, 2010 at 5:30 am #97764

26 Apr
Block training
warm-up, stretching, drills
block starts front/back 10+10

Today was a busy day at school, I was almost sure that I’d have to skip training but somehow managed to find some time. Had to compromise though; there wasn’t too much time so I decided to train just blocks today, speed endurance later this week. I felt some strange pain in my left achilles tendon, hope it doesn’t get worse.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 28, 2010 at 6:46 am #97795

27 Apr
Max strength
power clean 3* 107.5 kg, 2* 115 kg, 4* 110 kg, 6* 105 kg, 4* 107.5kg
half-squat 6* 175 kg, 6* 215 kg, 6* 235 kg, 6* 195 kg, 8* 165 kg
one-leg hamstring curl 3*6
hurdle hops 2*3* 4h

Last week I cleaned 2*120 kg but struggled today at 115 kg. Wasn’t fresh at all and it was really difficult! I’m feeling quite stressed because of my busy schedule right now. I’ll run into storm of assignment deadlines and exams during May and it’ll be hard to squeeze in all the training I’d like to do and still be able to recover. I’ve been decreasing slightly my daily calorie intake in order to get lighter body weight for the comp season, it has clearly weakened my recovery ability. I’m planning to make some modifications to weight training soon.

Do you prefer to keep your body weight around the same level throughout the year or would you go through some sort of low cal diet before meets?

[Linas82]

Linas82 on April 28, 2010 at 3:06 pm #97809

I’m trying to decrease my body fat during training, not just before meets. During season usually I just maintain my body weight. I don’t want to have low cal diet before meets b/c I like to eat. Actually at the moment I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, nuts and some seeds, I get planty of calories. My body fat still slowly decreases. I get quality protein, not from cooked foods.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 29, 2010 at 9:03 am #97817

Linas, your diet sounds really similar to mine, ie a sort of paleo diet. I’m eating also a lot of vegetables, fruits, nuts, olive oil and most important – berries. Protein I’m taking usually from chicken, fish and eggs, they are rich in essential aminoacids and BCAA. I’m used to drink a mix of carbs and amino acids during training, I think I’ll cut that off to decrease cals a bit. Even with a healthy diet I’ll need calorie deficit to decrease weight. I’ll also stop taking creatine as it gathers 1-2 kg of fluids.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on April 29, 2010 at 9:12 am #97819

28 Apr AM
Upper body strength + warm-up, drills
bench press 2* 110 kg, 2* 120 kg, 2* 127.5 kg, 5* 100 kg
lat pull-down 6*90 kg, 4*100 kg, 4* 110 kg, 5* 95 kg
core work
jogging, dyn.stretching, drills
accel runs 2* 30 m

PM
Blocks, speed
warm-up, stretching, drills
block starts 4* 20 m, 3* 30 m, 2* 40 m, 2* 20 m
shot throws 5 @ 4kg

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 1, 2010 at 2:17 am #97877

Rested yesterday

30 Apr
Spec end
warm-up, stretching, drills
bounding 5* 30 m at grass
hurdle hops 2*5*5h
4*60 m + 2* 150 m, rec. 4’/8′
cool-down

Caught cold while wearing a t-shirt and doing warm-up outdoors on wednesday. My voice is down and I can barely speak a bit. Just talked with a friend on the phone who commented my voice something like “Who is this, Darth Vader?”, haha.

Still decided to train, I was going to run 3*150 in addition to 60s, but didn’t take the last one cos my throat was killing me. Today I trained at different indoor track than usually, there’s basically a 100 meter dash and yes, there’s a bend too but it’s really steep with a soft surface. Felt funny to run this curve as I’m usually training at 400 track. The 60s were hand timed from first movement 6.6-6.9 and 150s were around 16.8.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 1, 2010 at 10:07 pm #97894

omg, it’s May already!

1 May
Leg strength
1. squat ATG 4* 145 kg, 4* 150 kg, 4* 155 kg, 4* 160 kg
2. single leg RDL 3*6
3.a) weighted jump squats 3*5
3.b) depth jumps 3*6
4. jerk 4*6

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 3, 2010 at 9:02 am #97941

2 May
Warm-up+core
walk 30′ + core 20′
static stretching 30′

Still had the cold today. Given the facts that I was feeling sick, indoor track was closed and it was around 10 celsius degrees and windy outside I thought it would be better to take it easy today. In the evening I started to feel better and had the typical “gotta do something” -feeling so did some walking and core. Hamstrings are dead after yesterdays RDLs – didn’t expect this really as I lifted only 3 sets of 6, it was supposed to be easy! If I’m better tomorrow I’ll try to do some speed work.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 4, 2010 at 1:20 am #97953

3 May
Blocks, speed
warm-up, stretch, drills
4* SLJ
block starts in trainers front/back 5+5
block accels 5* 20 m
standing starts 5* 50 m
hurdle hops 8* 3h

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 5, 2010 at 6:52 am #98010

4 May
Blocks + whatever
brief warm-up, some drills
block starts front/back 6+6
sled pulls 4* 30 m
accels in spikes 2* 30 m
lengthy warm-down outdoors

Arrived at indoor track to discover that it’s gonna be closed in 38 minutes.. They had switched to ‘summer season schedule’ or whatever. I was extremely pissed off, had been waiting this session all the day after working at school like crazy. I managed to do quite a lot of things but with far too short recovery time, it made no sense whatsoever.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 6, 2010 at 6:00 am #98043

5 May
Max power
power clean 2* 100 kg, 110 kg, 120 kg, 0* 125 kg, 4,3* 115 kg, 6* 110 kg
half squat 6* 160 kg, 205 kg, 245 kg, 205 kg
single leg hamstring curl 1*6
jerk 2*5

Light weight baby!!!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 7, 2010 at 2:06 am #98072

6 May
Upper body strength + tempo

bench press 2* 112.5 kg, 122.5 kg, 1* 130 kg, 3* 120 kg, 110 kg
lat pulldown 4* 90 kg, 100 kg, 110 kg, 6* 100 kg
core work

jogging/walking 10′
dyn. stretching
drills
8* 100m at grass in trainers, 1′ rec

Took 9.5 hours sleep last night, felt a bit dizzy in the morning but after a couple BIG cups of coffee got back on the track!

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 11, 2010 at 12:20 pm #98079

Whoa, forum seems to work again even though there’s definitely something wrong with stylesheet settings, lol! I’ll post missing logs here as soon as I’m done with this assignment paper.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 11, 2010 at 3:12 pm #98091

Ok, so here goes:

7 May
Speed endurance

warm-up, stretching, drills
accels in trainers 3* 30 m

100 m from the curve in trainers
standing start 2* 200 m in spikes: 22.4”, -”, rec 15′
extensive warm-down

Positive running today! Session was carried out at standard 200 meter indoor track (rising bends) so 22.4 HT was better than I expected. I feel really comfortable in the first 120 meters, last 50 slows down quite a lot but it’s not a big surprise because I haven’t focused much on speed endurance training.

It would had been interesting to figure out a 150 m split. In January I ran 16.1 HT at the same 200 indoor track, today was so easygoing that probably I’m not so far away from that shape.

First rep was timed 22.4, timing failed in the second rep but it must have been at least 22.7” as it was ran with higher intensity than the first one. Also finished twice ahead of 22.0 guy which is not too bad! 😉

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 11, 2010 at 3:14 pm #98092

Rested on 8th.

9 May
Plyos + weights
warm-up, stretching, drills

2* 30 m skip for distance
4* SLJ
4* standing 5-jump

2* 20 m single leg hops
sled pulls in spikes 3* 30 m @ 15 kg, 3* 30 m @ 10 kg
broad jumps 2*6

squat ATG 6* 125 kg, 4* 145 kg, 4* 150 kg
single leg RDL 2*6

Little pain in left achilles but it didn’t disturb too much.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 11, 2010 at 3:14 pm #98093

10 May
Block training
warm-up, stretching, drills
wall drills

accel runs in trainers 6* 30 m
block starts front/back 10+8

block starts in spikes 2* 10 m + 1* 20 m
hurdle hops 5* 3h (increasing height)

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 12, 2010 at 4:37 am #98108

11 May
Blocks, speed

short warm-up and flex, some drills
accel runs in trainers 3* 30m

block starts in spikes 2* 10 m, 20 m, 30 m, 50 m, 40 m, 2* 20 m
shot throws @ 3 kg, 6*front, 3*back

I’m feeling so quick out of the blocks that I’m almost sure I will hit PB in 30/60m block test next week. On the other hand my schedule is a mess right now and I have to work a lot to finish all school works in time. Sleep pattern is upside down too, today went to sleep at 8 am and woke up at 4.30 pm. Maybe I’ll have to skip some sessions but let it be a light week in training then.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 16, 2010 at 6:15 am #98191

12 May
Strength
power clean 3* 100 kg, 2* 112.5 kg, 1* 122.5 kg, 4,4,6* 110 kg
half squat 6* 170 kg, 190 kg, 215 kg, 5* 255 kg, 6* 190 kg, 170 kg
jerk 2*6
hurdle hops 6*2h

13-14 May
Didn’t train. Spent two days just preparing for exams and assignments, no good..

15 May
Speed endurance
warm-up, flex, drills
accels 3* 30 m
standing start 3*150 m; 16.7”, 16.4”, 16.8”, 15′ rec
warm-down

The only optimistic thing today was the weather. I should be quicker. Asked the hurdler chick to time so the marks aren’t fully comparable. I ran alone and felt I couldn’t get the most out of it. I’ve not been sleeping well for the last four days so probably it wasn’t realistic to expect better.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 18, 2010 at 3:30 am #98237

16 May
Upper body strength
bench press 4*3 @ 115 kg
lat pull down 4* 95,105,115 kg, 6* 90 kg
core work
static stretching

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 18, 2010 at 3:30 am #98238

17 May
Strength
power clean 2* 100, 110, 117.5, 122.5 kg, 1* 127.5 kg, 2,1* 120 kg
squat ATG 3* 140,150 kg, 2* 160 kg, 2* 170 kg
jerk 2*6
easy accels on grass 6* 50 m

Kind of mixed feelings right now…

The good:
I improved nicely my maxes in clean and squat! Probably power clean got better because I’ve been lifting on a regular soft track surface and today I trained at gym on a hard weight lifting stand. It felt so easy that I ended up lifting more volume than I had planned. I also squatted 2* 170 kg which is my all time best, actually I think I could have done 3-4 reps with that weight. It surprised me because I’ve not been squatting atg much lately and my body weight has decreased. BW has reached the lowest point in three months. I’m really happy with my effort today!

The bad:
Left achilles tendon is aching. It reminds me of its existence once in a while but after the 150s last Saturday it became worse and I had to skip tempo yesterday and plyos/sled pulls today. It’s really weird – sometimes it hurts to just walk stairs etc. but for example today after the weight training session I was able to run the accels on grass with no pain whatsoever.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do now. Tomorrow it would be a block and speed day but it doesn’t make sense if achilles is in pain… On the other hand I know I’m in a good shape and I’d like to open my season as soon as possible. It has been warm lately (around 25 celsius degs) and that would be a perfect weather for a season opener.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 19, 2010 at 7:26 am #98280

18 May
Speed, blocks

warm-up, stretching, drills
wall drills

accel runs in trainers 6* 30 m
block starts in spikes 5* 10 m, 2* 30 m

standing start 2* 50 m
warm-down

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last time went to a chiropractor. It was high time as I’ve started to gain a variety of problems. Chiropractor said that my lower back muscles are extremely rigid and inflexible (probably due to atg squats and stuff), especially the left side. Also the left sacroiliac joint was stuck which is not untypical for me.

He made some adjustments and later I carried out the speed session as planned without any pain. So it seems I have not injured my achilles tendon, the pain is just a symptom of excessive stress in the lower back.

Otherwise the training session wasn’t particularly good, I felt sore from quads and hams and called it a day as I noticed I was getting slower and exhausted. Tomorrow I’ll have another chiropractic appointment.

[indigobreath]

indigobreath on May 26, 2010 at 6:02 am #98499

Status update: I’ve now finished all uni works for this spring and next week I’ll start full-time job.

Today I took some tests at indoor track:

60 m blocks 6.80 (no RT)
4* 70 m 97% standing start; timed 30 m flys 2.98-3.01

I’m satisfied with 60m blocks, 30 flys weren’t too quick but I’m happy I was able to keep it consistently at same level. Usually I ran significantly faster in competition than in training so I guess 2.98 in training is okay at this point.

In January two weeks before running 7.00 indoors I took the 60m test 6.88 so now with 6.80 I’d say I’m capable to clock 6.9x. Adding it sub-3 30m fly I hope that I have now everything it takes to go 10.9x or better. Qualification mark for national champs is 10.95; it shouldn’t be too difficult and I’d like to hit it as soon as possible.

I’m not sure if I have time and interest to update all sessions to this log but I’ll try to update once in a while at least… 🙂