back to work!

Yesterday we had our first practice of the week after a nice weekend off.  Practice went pretty well.  Short approach stuff was good.  I am not sure what happened with some of my full approaches though.  I was running like I had two different legs or something.  Did get off the ground on the last one, but Coach decided to call it a day.  I am looking forward to a real jumping day on wednesday.  Lifting was good.  I am enjoying doing the "all american" workouts.  We did 3 sets of 85% of max for max reps for back squats.  I was at 165 lbs, sets of 8,8,6.  Then for full cleans, three sets of 8 at 100 lbs.  They were tough, but I am looking forward to getting better at them!

End of camp!

Friday was finally the last day of camp.  Man it was a hard day!  After a little bit of approach work we hit the track for a tough work out.  It was one we have done before.  4 sets of 150, 100, 50.  The recovery between runs is just the walk back to the line, then we had six minutes in between.  It was tough, but I felt really good.  After that we headed to the weight room for our last round of maxes.  First we did back squats.  I maxed just under 200 lbs for my single rep.  Thats about where I was a year ago, so it is going up again.  Then I made up bench from the day before.  I only did 5 reps at 115, which translates to about 130 lbs for my single rep.  That is much lower than it has been, but they were actually done right.  Finally, we did full cleans.  I managed a respectable 6x105lbs, which is just under the most I have ever maxed on those. 

After practice I got to spend a great evening with Auntie Pat and Kelsey.  It was great to get off campus and Beauty and the Beast 3D was awesome.  Saturday night we celebrated Kristi's birthday by going out to dinner, then I spent some time with my team.  More time with the team tonight, then my first SAO meeting of the year.  Been a pretty nice first weekend of the semester...too bad the rest won't be this relaxing.

First Morning Practice!

So like most normal non-college people, my life now begins at 8 am everyday.  Today I had my first morning practice.  It was not bad at all getting up that early, and I think I am really going to enjoy it.  Today I was just completely exhausted.  All of the work from the past week and a half really caught up with me.  I was not sore exactly, my muscles just did not have much left.  I did some decent short approach work and a few full runs.  Things felt pretty good, just slow.  After practice I got in the cool pool to ease some knee and shin pain I have been having for the past few days.  I am glad it is Thursday, looking forward to finishing this week off strong, and having a little rest this weekend.