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Woo hoo, a PR of 16.56! More details later

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State Games of America, 100m, in Lincoln NE.

Mike and drove up the night before, and had a nice dinner. I got a decent night's sleep, slept late, and then we had to kill time. Since there were only 4 women in my age class (3 from NE) we would not be running a qualifying heat in the morning, and the race was scheduled for 1:28.

So we went out to breakfast, picked up my packet, then toured the state capitol building. Made it to the track, and it took forever to check in; I was worried about having time to warm up.

But then I had enough time. I am still figuring out how to prep for my races; I seem to need a long warm up. So I did some jogging, then some sprint specific warm ups, then more jogging. I also decided to drink some caffeine about a half hour before the race.

The other new thing I did was to run two 100m warm ups. The first was at "run as fast as you can" pace, then a 8 minute break, then sprint 100 m at "just below race pace", about 10 minutes before the scheduled start.
The last new thing I did was to use a standing start, instead of the blocks.
I felt a bit nervous at he start, definitely felt some adrenaline, but I was not super nervous.

I followed my plan: right at the start, I said (in my head) dig, dig, dig. Then I said push, push, push. Then I noticed that I was getting tired and my form was starting to fail, so I looked at the woman ahead of me and tired to stay with her. Finally I just lunged across the line. They announced right away that the winner took 14.98. I knew I wasn't 2 whole seconds behind her, so I felt pretty sure I had a PR. But it took 40 minutes before they finally posted the results, which confirmed it: 16.56. I was so happy!

Mike and I decided to take back roads home. We saw a sign for Homestead Monument of America and decided to stop. It was very interesting, about the Homestead Act and family farms. We walked along mowed paths through the prairie flowers from one exhibit to another, watched the film, and walked along the woods trail. Just a nice little museum and setting.

Stopped in Marysville (where else ? :) for dinner at the very popular Wagon Wheel restaurant, and finished the day with champagne and chocolate cake when we got home. A perfect day!

C • Marysville 1

Easy drive to Lincoln NE for the State Games of America. There are only 4 women running the 100 in my age group, so no preliminary race. Just the final at 1:30 pm; it will be hot , but I'm used to it. Nice to be able to drive to this event, and to have Mike with me. Nice dinner at The Green Gateau, a recommendation from Mike's mom.

A short shuffle on west campus in the pleasant temps.

An active stretching session today. Nothing tough, since I have a race coming up on Saturday.

Waited for the sun to get lower before I dared to go outside. I usually warm up before my sprint drills, so I figured I would do some O this time. Used the same window course, but put it over the west campus map. Good training for a familiar map. I even made a mistake at 5. Stopped at 9 because that's where I usually do my drills (in the shade trees)

Sunflower State Games, Gage Park, Topeka KS
I felt pretty good today, and kept a steady pace. No big bobbles this year, just some minor route choice decisions. Realize now that 13-14 was bad a route choice; I lost a lot of time to others on this leg. Weird thing on 15: I came around the corner, looked right at the marker, and didn't see it. Started past it before I finally saw it. Strange.





We had a decent turnout, lots of teams, and some total newbies.
Mike's video: https://youtu.be/uoB7DLG1nGQ
Gene's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ngungilson/sets/7215...