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Jun 2021
9:51am, 7 Jun 2021
762 posts
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Cats Whiskers
Great set of results, Roberto. Sounds like a busy afternoon!
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Jun 2021
10:22am, 7 Jun 2021
18,227 posts
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Sharkie
Automatic PB on the SC too, Roberto. Congrats on a successful and hard working evening. (Or afternoon?)
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Jun 2021
8:31am, 8 Jun 2021
18,229 posts
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Sharkie
Third track meet for me last night. I made a right mess of it! Least said about javelin the better, god knows why I threw so badly.
LJ - didn't have time to get my run-up sorted properly- and someone moved my marker which didn't help. Sigh. She apologised but it was not what I needed having done a good but illegal first jump. Only one 'safe' jump was a long way off my recent best in training.
200 was intersting. I completely faded - 400 style jelly legs on the last 50 metres lost me what would have been a good second place. I'm not as discouraged as I might be (I'm more a 100m runner) as I could see what and where it went wrong.
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Jun 2021
12:03pm, 8 Jun 2021
34,427 posts
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SPR
Nice work Roberto.
Sounds like something to build on Sharkie.
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Jun 2021
12:38pm, 8 Jun 2021
34,428 posts
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SPR
I've had an interesting month. Thought my right outer hamstring was ok three weeks ago but re-pulled it sprinting at training and it was a proper pull up and don't run a step more pull.
It's recovered fairly quickly (only needed one day off although the first couple runs after were sore) and I've just done some hill sprints today with cadence hitting a max of 235 so hopefully getting back to being able to sprint again without issue (Saturday strides were max cadence of 215, and first 3 today similar before starting to get up to higher cadences with 4 being a halfway house [222], before going to sprint mode from 5-7 [229, 229, 235]). Seems everything other than sprinting is hopefully fine so introducing that back gradually to build resilience.
Missed MK3000 as the pull re-occurred on the Tuesday before that race. Shame as MK always host great races. Ran a poor 1500 on Sunday, obvious excuses given the above but I should be better and I don't believe it's an endurance or speed issue, more an art of racing thing.
More racing over the next week with 3000 tomorrow (would have been 800 but mindful of the high speed for ham so giving an extra week before racing an 800), 1500 Sunday, then 800 next Wednesday.
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Jun 2021
9:56pm, 8 Jun 2021
4,318 posts
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CC2 Speedy Goth
I had the Midland Masters 5000m on Sunday. Clocked a PB of 18.39.13 and won the race outright (it was all women plus men over 60). Now trying desperately to find my legs again before tomorrow's league fixture, where I have the shot again (dear God why?), the 800, the 3000 and probably a leg of the 4 x 400. You don't race for literally 15 months, then a million of the things come along at once!
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Jun 2021
10:45pm, 8 Jun 2021
3,658 posts
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J2R
My experience too, Speedy Goth! Insane amount of stuff happening at the moment. Well done on your win! Interesting format, all women plus men over 60.
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Jun 2021
10:54pm, 8 Jun 2021
18,230 posts
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Sharkie
^ Indeed. Last night our SAL team captain (she's just 40) trying to persuade me to do the senior league on a Sunday afternoon with the vets league the following evening.
We've lost quite a few athletes over the past year and a half so she's admittedly clutching at straws. I'm pretty bomb proof but not even a day between meets might be too much for my advanced years.
Although it might be easier in some ways than just a day between which has occasionally happened previously.
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Jun 2021
7:34am, 9 Jun 2021
74,253 posts
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Gobi
My house move and therefore my track season has been further delayed.
Be careful SPR
Well raced Speedy
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Jun 2021
12:48am, 10 Jun 2021
34,433 posts
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SPR
Art of racing focus worked well today. I'd already decided my focus was going to be all about maintaining form, relaxing and racing today, but a conversation with someone just before my race where I stated that got me thinking that I didn't need my watch so took that off (I've been trying to get HR stats from races with the Polar OH1 but I actually forgot it so was halfway towards no data anyway).
Pacer for the race was 75 which I might have gone with a few weeks back but decided to hang back on of our group of 5 and the whole group was off the pacer initially. 1 guy then went to catch the pacer and I moved into second by lap 3 but there was a bit too much of a gap to close at that point so just kept working with a couple of runners sitting on as we'd dropped 1 runner. With 3 laps to go, one came past and I just followed. At 2 laps to go the other came through and I was already thinking kick so actually let a small gap open. At 400m, I kicked, the two actually stayed close enough to keep me working for a lot of the back straight (I could hear their breathing anyway) till it actually looked like I could catch the leader (who from the video had about 7 sec gap at the bell). At 200m kicked again, caught the leader with 50m who didn't respond and won the race pretty easily in the end.
Ran 9:35.27 which is a 0.62 PB but just happy to have executed the plan for the race and run well after a few rubbish ones where I felt I was tightening up. Pretty sure my last lap snuck under 70. From the livestream I think I probably ran something like 3:13, 3:17, 3:05. Hopefully more to come given the way it was run.
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Fetch track meet - Tamworth - Sat 26th Oct
Dec 2024