Have had an exceptional spring/summer of weather here, mid 70ºs, mostly clear and calm.
After two days off of running and swimming and water running today, I ran a little tonight. I felt about 90% over the soreness so I ran a relaxed 100m, a relaxed 400m and a hard 200m hill. Unfortunately, it created soreness in the injury area, but not as bad as it was Monday.
Hoka trainers on
stretches, drills, bands, 2 x 100m
100m - 14.72
400m - 63.51 (30.84, 32.67)
200m hill - 42.32
Definitely disappointed at where I'm at now. I have not run anything significant at 400m race pace since my last 400m race almost 3 weeks ago! No speed work, just long stuff and 300m tempo. I have never gone to a championship meet in this bad of physical shape, ever. Let alone to Finland! This injury has been with me on and off for 6 months now. When I first started racing on Memorial Day, it was about gone. I even trained on Sunday after those first two Sat races without problems. It was that June 11 AAU race that hurt, where I couldn't run on the track for 4 days after. The one thing that is reliable, this injury responds fairly quickly to rest. After 2 or 3 days with some regular PT and mobility exercise, it improves considerably. The problem is, I can't stay in top shape by training every 4th day.
Anyway, I seriously thought tonight about canceling my trip. I probably will go. It's going to be tough to get through 3 rounds and I may run the first round in trainers. I do now think there will definitely be 3 rounds. There most certainly will be at least 4 heats. The only way there will not be a first round is if only 27 show up and they'd run 3 heats in 9 lanes as a semi. But even then there could be 3 rounds. For example, in the M70 100, there were just 26 competitors and they advanced 16 to the semis. It will be the same for my 400m.
Anyway. I can race in a little pain. I may not run much at all before I race on Tue in round 1.
137.9 lbs after workout.
Carpe Diem
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