The meet on saturday was a disappointing way for me to end my season. First warm ups went wonderfully, everything felt great. I had no problems at all jumping on the big pole! But I had one where I did not land as deeply as I would like and the fear set in. Messed up the rest of my warm up and I was unable to clear 3.11. Did enjoy talking to Joe from Vertical Assault, been a very long time since I have been there!!
Now I must refocus and look towards next year. Everything is now directed towards getting myself on the plane for indoor nationals, only 295 days to go! Looking forward to two weeks of recovery from a very long season, then have to get back to work and get ready to go for next year! No more excuses for not being at nationals!!
As a recap of the season, overall it was pretty good. Managed a 6 cm PR over the course of the year. While this may not seem huge I can tell I have improved in other ways. I got over being unable to jump in practice or warm up, its not perfect yet, but its better! Also, what I think was the biggest improvement was the change from jumping on a 12' 120 lbs pole to jumping on a 13' 130 lbs pole!! This means I am jumping much better than I ever have before, even if the heights are not showing it yet. Hopefully with the work I can will put in this summer I will be able to develop the athleticism I need to really show improvement!
Good luck at Nationals to Dira, automatic qualifier in the 400 hurdles, Rich, automatic qualifier in the decathlon and provisional qualifier in the high jump, and Matt Winker, automatic qualifier in the 800! Also, hopefully Brittany can retain her spot and go in the Long jump, and Congrats to Jenna for hitting the provo mark in the High jump! Also, Congrats to all the graduating seniors of 2011!!!
This was a good year for our team, obviously we can be a lot better but I really believe that an attitude change has begun to take hold that will lead us to amazing things in the next few years! Looking forward to bringing in nearly 60 new freshman!! Should be an awesome year!
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Moving Outdoors
Literally today we moved outdoors, as we started practice off by moving all of our equipment from the Freeman Center to the outdoor track. After all this madness was complete we ran a quick work out on the track.
3 laps of sprint the straights and walk the turns
3 laps of sprint the curves and walk the straights
Felt a little wimpy that we were just walking the recovery, but it was nice to have a lighter day as a little recovery after the indoor season, since we are pushing forward with no break.
Then, we hit the weight room for the first time in nearly a month for me!!!! Can't lie the weights were a little wimpy but its been a while.
2x10 incline press- 30lbs
2x10 shoulder press- 30 lbs
2x10 rows each arm- 15 lbs
2x10 lat pulls- 75 lbs
2x10 NRG pulls- 75 lbs
3x10 bench- 100 lbs ( this was actually the wieght I was supposed to be lifting today so I am happy I got through it!)
Overall today was a pretty good day, it will be nice to get back to running some, I have missed it these last few weeks. It helps that the weather is supposed to be nice this week!
Finally, congrats to all of my teammates who are headed to nationals this week, Dira in the 800 and pentathlon, Rich in the Pentathlon, Brittany in the Long Jump, and Winkler in the 800. Good luck this week and I look forward to reporting good stuff from them!
3 laps of sprint the straights and walk the turns
3 laps of sprint the curves and walk the straights
Felt a little wimpy that we were just walking the recovery, but it was nice to have a lighter day as a little recovery after the indoor season, since we are pushing forward with no break.
Then, we hit the weight room for the first time in nearly a month for me!!!! Can't lie the weights were a little wimpy but its been a while.
2x10 incline press- 30lbs
2x10 shoulder press- 30 lbs
2x10 rows each arm- 15 lbs
2x10 lat pulls- 75 lbs
2x10 NRG pulls- 75 lbs
3x10 bench- 100 lbs ( this was actually the wieght I was supposed to be lifting today so I am happy I got through it!)
Overall today was a pretty good day, it will be nice to get back to running some, I have missed it these last few weeks. It helps that the weather is supposed to be nice this week!
Finally, congrats to all of my teammates who are headed to nationals this week, Dira in the 800 and pentathlon, Rich in the Pentathlon, Brittany in the Long Jump, and Winkler in the 800. Good luck this week and I look forward to reporting good stuff from them!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Pentathlon??????
So went to the freeman center this morning expecting to run a little workout then watch my teammates compete in the pentathlon. As I sat there waiting to warm up coach informed me that he needed more people to compete and I was one of them. So off I went. I was moderately confident in my skills at most of the events because I have competed in them in high school, but it had been nearly two years so I had no idea what would happen.
First up was the 55m hurdles. It took me a few runs to be confident that I would actually make it over and survive. Also, both taking off and landing was still a little funny on my right knee. After one very ugly race i managed to hit 10.8 secs, only 0.5 behind my high school pr.
Then on to high jump. I had high jumped before but I was never very good. We opened at 4" but I could not quite figure out how to go up from that run and unfortunately no heighted : (
Next was the event I had no idea what I was doing with, shot put. Just before the event started Coach took me through shot put 101 and I managed to through 6.63 m or 21". I guess that's acceptable for never having done it before.
Then over to long jump. I had about 5 mins to figure out my approach which surprisingly consistent today. First jump was 4.1 something. Second was 4.33 then my last one was 4.38 m or 14'4.5" a pr by a few inches.
The last event of the day was the 800. I had never run a race this far before and had no idea what to do. My two goals were to run sub 3 mins and not get lapped by Dira who was attempting to run about a 2:15. I had to run in my trainers because all I had was sprinting and jumping spikes. I managed to come in at 3:06, not quite sub 3, but did manage to avoid being lapped by about 2 steps. The 8 is not a bad race, it was nice to have time to think about what I was doing as I was running.
Overall today was not a bad day. I definitely cannot complain since I have not been training any of these events.
First up was the 55m hurdles. It took me a few runs to be confident that I would actually make it over and survive. Also, both taking off and landing was still a little funny on my right knee. After one very ugly race i managed to hit 10.8 secs, only 0.5 behind my high school pr.
Then on to high jump. I had high jumped before but I was never very good. We opened at 4" but I could not quite figure out how to go up from that run and unfortunately no heighted : (
Next was the event I had no idea what I was doing with, shot put. Just before the event started Coach took me through shot put 101 and I managed to through 6.63 m or 21". I guess that's acceptable for never having done it before.
Then over to long jump. I had about 5 mins to figure out my approach which surprisingly consistent today. First jump was 4.1 something. Second was 4.33 then my last one was 4.38 m or 14'4.5" a pr by a few inches.
The last event of the day was the 800. I had never run a race this far before and had no idea what to do. My two goals were to run sub 3 mins and not get lapped by Dira who was attempting to run about a 2:15. I had to run in my trainers because all I had was sprinting and jumping spikes. I managed to come in at 3:06, not quite sub 3, but did manage to avoid being lapped by about 2 steps. The 8 is not a bad race, it was nice to have time to think about what I was doing as I was running.
Overall today was not a bad day. I definitely cannot complain since I have not been training any of these events.
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