Training Log Archive: Thompass

Score-O with the Minnesota Orienteering Club, got 220 out of 280 points but lost 10 because I was a little late. Good and fun.

Not bad. Warmed up by playing soccer with Peter for about 40 minutes, he just came back from college today :D He wanted to go in to shower, and I just bought new shoes, training and spikes, so I thought, what the heck, might as well see what my mile is today. Didn't beat 6 minutes, but I'm very, very close.

And I had to do a wide run around a dog and there was some wood lying around at the end of my mile. Oh well, sucks for me. Beating six next time, I promise (hopefully).

Indoor running is hard.

Today was pretty loose and simple compared to yesterday. Didn't go my full speed because there's a practice meet tomorrow, but I still went a pretty decent speed. We did a quick hills practice after that, and then we were done. Nothing mind blowing really.

Used Google Maps to find the distance, but it's still not 100% trustworthy.

It was a bit like Monday again. We spent almost two hours testing how high and far we could jump, how far we could throw, and how fast we could sprint. Perfect for long distance runners, right? Really shows our ability. It didn't really tire us out at all and it wasn't a good workout either. Track's supposed to get better from here on out though, right? We'll see.

The part after the track and field business was pretty good though. The long-distance met up again and we went out for a run through downtown Hudson. It was a nice workout, and once we finished I felt a nice sense of accomplishment. Didn't feel like the king of the world or anything like that, I just felt like I did something, and it felt pretty good. Tomorrow will (most likely) be the two-mile ppm. Should be fun, hope I do well (better than during my mile).

Time is a little completely inaccurate, I need to start going with a watch.

Phew...that was a little more than I expected. After meeting up with the coach, we ran down to the track at an easy pace, after waiting for my friend to finish talking to the coach about absences and such. Everybody was beginning to warm up when we jogged in. Great start.

After some good technique stuff that wasn't very hard at all, most of the athletes left, save for the long distance runners. Time for some real work.
We started with a mile run, and I hit a time of 6'10. I honestly think I could have done much better than that, I feel like I didn't put enough into it. I think I should have tried to at least beat 6 minutes, but I guess next time I do the mile I'll give it more.

However, I'm also a little glad that I had a little left in me after that, as then came an acceleration workout. Ten sets of 100m, which I think I did relatively good in, and then another five sets of 200m, where a cramp took a little out of my speed when I was supposed to peak; I need to find a good way to deal with those cramps.

After that everything else was pretty basic. We jogged back to the high school, spent a little time taking a survey, then did an eight minute ab workout led by Mike. It was pretty relaxing, I think, but I had a little trouble with soreness with the scissor kicks and another movement of the sorts.

All in all, quite a solid second day of Track and Field. Personally feels like the first though, Monday wasn't much of a workout. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season and how much it will help me improve! What I took away from today: I have a lot to go, and my mile pace is slow. But you know what? I have a whole season to get better, and I plan to use it to the best of my ability to get better at running. It's also great knowing that my efforts in track will rub off on my orienteering! We'll see where track takes me.

Barely any running, just twice around a parking lot. Mostly just "learning how to warm up".