Training Log Archive: Thompass

First day of Interscholastics, got 6th place. Good run, too many thorns though. I'm relatively okay with my performance, though I made a questionable mistake.

Day 1 - Green Y - Splits

After jogging and warmups and all that jazz, we got started with our workout for the day, which was harder than I expected. First off, it was cold and very, very windy. Running the 100m stretch hurt my face and my muscles. We did 2 sets of 4 400m each with one lap of jogging between each one. Then we did 2 sets of 4 200m each with half a lap of jogging in between. For all the non-math majors, that's 3 miles not counting jogging, and 6 miles including the distance jogged. It was really tough stuff, I have to admit. Ab workouts, jog to school, and done. I'm pretty happy with how it went, coach just said I need to work on the motion of my arms. I'll work on that then.

Totally forgot my watch, don't trust the time at all. We did the reverse of what I did Monday, only this time with Varsity, so it was a little harder. I got the most massive stomach cramp in the last bit though, so I had to drop back a bit. That's okay though.

Again, time is about 0.1% trustworthy. We went to the weight room and did stuff in there for half an hour afterwards.

Was at a meet today, I was part of the 4x400 relay. My time was 1:03, another guy got insanely fast, and the other two weren't too shabby either. We snatched third place for ourselves.

This was a tiny bit cringeworthy. I was running with a few of my freshman buddies, and they were taking it pretty darn slow. They struggled a lot and I feel like I got no workout out of this. Now I understand why I should run with Varsity during training. We went to the weight room afterwards, so it wasn't a completely wasted day.

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.