Monday, August 9, 2010

Heading In The Right Direction

After the rarefied air of mile repeats at Villanova on Saturday it was back to Temple this evening for my 2x150,4x400,Decathletes Mile.
After last weeks ok debut I wanted to kick on and make inroads into my times from last Monday
21.83-23.98-63.91-63.42-65.02-65.22-5.15.0.
Following my 1.4 warm up and 20 mins of stretches it was time to get medieval w/ this repeat,kill or be killed,go hard or go home.

2x150-21.39-21.95.This is what I was looking for last week,21s at 150m,not sure what the difference was today other than getting used to sprinting something there hasn't been much call for this season.

4x400m-63.41-64.13-63.41-63.92.I feel there should be an asterisk next to #2,were it not for having to slow down 30 meters from the line and zig zag off the track and back on it to pass a young child occupying lane 1 there's little or no doubt I would've hit 63s across the board.
Glass half full I was consistent over all four 400s,#1 and #3 were identical,I said I was looking for 63s and I more or less got that this evening.

Decathletes mile-1.16-1.20-1.19-1.13-5.08.1.In 08 on week #6 I ran a 5.09.5 mile,it had taken me 6 weeks to get a sub 5.10,here I am two weeks in and clocking 5.08.1.
I'm actually disappointed my final lap was only a 73,I think seeing 3.55 at 1,200m meant I didn't push hard enough over the final lap,as my former coach used to say"there's more meat on the bone" and I believe that,not just at the mile but at the 150s and 400s.

Tonite was an improvement on last week and hopefully next week will see another improvement on tonite

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