Yes, I am racing this weekend, but not at Berry. Going to Louisville to race in an all ages meet indoors. Open / Masters division looks like a fairly small to medium size meet. Unlike the massive TrackLab meets in Atlanta, they are dividing this up with young kids in the morning and high school, college / open / masters in the afternoon. They are doing this the next 3 Sundays, I can race every weekend if I want, and it falls on a Sunday so it fits my workout schedule. Long haul though. 500+ mile round trip. I'd stay at a hotel Sat night.
Sunny and low 50ºs at the Sewanee track with light shifting winds. I normally don't train 2 days in a row on the track, but I wanted to get this workout in so I don't have to go out tomorrow morning before I work.
Today was an exercise in misjudgment. I tried to run a race pace 300m and grossly under estimated my speed for the first 200m, and slowed badly around the 250m mark. Not very self aware. Tells me I need pacing work, relaxation, technique, and generally more months of speed endurance work. I do think I could run a decent 200m right now. With some pacing work, maybe a sub 58 400m.
Hoka trainers on
stretches, drills, bands, 2 x 100m
2 x 50m accelerations
300m (rolling, straight-turn-straight) - 41.97 (12.43, 13.64, 15.90 / 26.07, 15.90)
200m - 26.43 (12.50, 13.93)
200m - 26.82 (13.12, 13.70)
100m strider on turf - 13.70
Well, look at those splits in the 300m. I was shooting for 13/14/14 = 41. Going out in 12.4 was a bad pacing, 13.6 on the turn was ok but I'm certainly not capable of running a 400 in 26/29.5 splits right now. Even 26.6 or 26.8 would be more realistic. 26.6 + 29.0 = 55.6 ... would be an M60 world record indoors. 4 yrs ago in Daegu I ran 25.5 / 29.67 splits indoors in that 55.17 Silver medal race. Right now this early, to break 58, I'd have to run an exceptional and smart race.
The 200s were more relaxed and 400m race pace, the second one, even after the fatigue of the previous 500m of hard sprints, 26.8 would be an acceptable pace for a first 200 in a 400m. I have to be constantly reminded of patience.
Almost at race weight: 142.1 lbs after workout
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