Drill Day

Today was just a jump day, but since the pits are not out yet we just worked on drills.  Spent the first half of practice with the jumpers working on accelerations, then did a few bounding drills, which were kinda fun since I hope to triple jump again soon! Then we grabbed the poles to do some take off drills.  We started with the very basic one.  Take a few steps then jump over the pole on the ground.  I managed to get my grip up pretty high with only three steps in the run.  Landing these still makes me a little nervous, but everyday where my knee doesn't give builds my confidence more!  Then we moved to the track to do more acceleration work.  This time we did a series consisting of a three point start, a rolling start, then an acceleration with the pole.  Over all not a bad day out side, it is nice that Coach Wingard is starting to let us do more drills.  Hopefully this bodes well for the season to come.

Then I ran to the weight room for about 15 mins before heading to lab.  I managed to get in a warm up set of 10 front squats followed by just 2 sets of 8 back squats at 155 before I had to leave.  The 155 was the 80% I was supposed to be lifting today and after all this time away from the weight room I am glad it felt as good as it did.