300s on the track

65º, cloudy, occasional mist, calm winds at the Sewanee track.  Track was wet due to this morning's rain, first rain in a while.  Warmups felt ok so I decided to run on the track instead of the turf.

Hoka trainers on

stretches, drills

3 x 100m strides, stretches, bands drills

300m - 44.54 (14.25, 14.88, 15.41)

300m - 43.85 (13.88, 14.55, 15.42)

300m - 45.88 (14.40, 15.53, 15.95)

roller

The first 2 300s were fine, the last one was hard.  I'm definitely not fit enough to do anything like a 4 x 300m tempo workout with 2:30 rest.  Maybe I'll try a 3 x 300m with 3min rest, as a first attempt at some point.  

Happy that I don't have any significant pains, body tolerating 2 running workouts a week.  Knee is fine.  With anymore than 3 days off, I feel like I'm no longer an athlete.  So right now I'm training Mondays and Fridays on the track, and cross training Sat, Sun, Tues, usually with bike or stairmaster.  

143.7 lbs after workout.  Happy to still have my weight under control after some days of eating poorly.  I was 148 last night before bed time.  Heavy mostly to waste and drinking a lot of juice.  If I'm race weight, that makes being in shape a whole lot easier.  I'm about 2 to 3 lbs heavy right now.  

Upcoming seasons - both indoor and outdoor look sparse.  It's hard to know how to target my training with a totally uncertain indoor season.   So far, only one meet on the indoor calendar at the Crossplex in Jan.  There is that lone last chance outdoor meet in AL on Oct 31, but this outdoor season is pretty much over.  The last pro Diamond League meet was today.  There have been a couple big meets in Europe this month.   Someone tied my M60 100m #2 ranking at a big masters meet in Austria.  It looks like my 2020 World #1 ranking in the 400m may endure to year's end.  If it does, it will be a first outdoor #1 world ranking for me.  I've only achieved a #1 once before, that was indoor '16.  However, Australia's outdoor season is just getting up and running so someone down under may snag the top spot.  

I really feel that this pandemic robbed me of a chance to win a couple more national titles, outdoor '20 and indoor '21.  They say that America won't be close to normal for 14 month, or toward the end of next yr.  That will bring a whole new crop of younger M60s as I go to M61.  ; (

Sewanee may be doing their conference football in the spring semester, so maybe there will be a track season then as well.