Long week!!!

Sorry I have fallen behind on this this week, its been really busy...The meet last weekend was not really much to report, I was really dissappointed.  The week started out pretty slow.  After a 2 mile run sunday my legs felt great, but pole vaulting was not much to report on Monday.  Got up Tuesday morning to run Lions and Gazelles...which translates into me running 150s chasing the glyco group.  Ran the first 3 in 21.  and the last one in a low 22.  Its fun running workouts where you get to chase and be chased!!  So much more motivation!!  Wednesday was once again a really frustrating pole vaulting workout, but I did get some great work done in triple jump!! Thursday morning we ran 3 sets of 30, 50, 70, 90.  Running fast was fun.  Today we had our first pre-meet day since december.  I got off to a rocky start pole vaulting, but then Coach put up the bungee and after a few jumps everything started to click!!  I went over 3.50 m and even jumped at 4.00.  It was a lot of fun!! I am really excited to carry that momentum in to tomorrow!! Hopefully it will be a really good day!  Been a while since a meet has gone well!

Two Great Days!

Practice on Wednesday was probably the best vaulting day I have had yet this season.  Started out a little rough, but I was finally able to start feeling like I was moving the pole again, not just getting slammed.  I even managed to get some decent jumps in from a 5 step.  The fear wasn't there either which was great.  Lifting went well too.  Front squats 3 sets of 6,6,7 at 140 lbs.  We also did hang cleans, 3 sets of 8 at 100 lbs.  And managed to get bench in as well, 3 sets of 8 at 90 lbs. 

Got up for 8 am practice, after finally getting a decent amount of sleep!  Did some decent approach work, for both triple and pole vault.  Then we ran a workout.  3 sets of 3 150s.  There were just three of us running them, but thats the best I have felt in a workout in a long time.  Coach Lou gave us times to hit each time, the only time I was over the time was the very first one when he asked for a 21, I ran a 22.  Was not sure at the start what exactly the pace should feel like...Afterwards I did abs and some good stretching.  Then I sat in the cool pool for a while.

I am excited for the meet tomorrow.  Hopefully it will be a good day!

Stupid Fire Alarms...

Tired to be a good student athlete and go to bed by 11 only to be woken up by the fire alarm at 12, then again at 3:30, and again at 4:30.  By that point I was afraid to go asleep, thought it would go off again.  On the bright side I was awake well before my 8 am practice today!!! 

Practice went well considering I was running on only a few hours of sleep.  Did some good approach work for both triple and pole vault.  Then did about 5 sets of 20m harness, 30 m sprint from 3 point stance, and 30 m from blocks.  After that Coach Lou took us through some quick abs. 

Now Ive got to figure out how to get through the rest of my day with no sleep!  Yay Coffee!!!