Thoughts in my head....
well this winter break probably has to be one of the WORST breaks on record...least a while...though perhaps it may just be a sign?
With all this fucken snow falling, its been almost impossible to keep up a constant program in regards to running...the roads are always frozen for the most part; So there goes the morning/mid day runs...Then with the snow fall accumulations sticking on the tracks, I can't find a clean track till after a few days following a snow storm. I could always hit up the aqueduct...but thats always frozen/covered in snow, so while I can get the tempo runs/LSDS in it be kinda dangerous in the same meaning...plus going down to Dobbs/Hastings/Irvington and back to Thornwood in between my morning and afternoon shifts is pretty hard...
Of course it may be the weater; if given a good day I could probably make it and run practically anywhere for one run and then have an actual practice on a legit track. But the weather is too cold, and underarmor has a cut off-below 25 degrees and you are totally fucked with running....
so with this starting hte final two weeks left of break before spring semester, as well as the first meet back with the team at the Armory, I'm gonna do what I'm doing, mostly because the only difference between now and say two weeks is the fact I'll have homework on top of everything, and my firends will be back at their colleges. That may actually be a blessing, lol, for I can focus more on training than other things....
But this weather needs to break...since Pville doesnt have a team on thier track until say March, I could always do my own workouts until then...the weather will break and I could do two a days and return to Mercy for practice. I'd say just return to Mercy, say tomorrow, but the fact my coach doesnt give us a work out, and basically let us go for break saying to find our own programs/train by ourselves...
so yeah...this spring break, however, I am FINALLY going to return to Florida to visit my grandma, and in the process hitting up the Florida sun and beautiful temperatures at least once a day, maybe more...a focus on just training down in nice weather is waht I did in the summertime-and that is when my running got REALLY good...
couple of days, just me thsi time visiting, so it won't be like lets drive to Orlando for a day..won't have a car, so tech walking/jogging will be needed even if I wanted to go to the beach, or park.
I mean my 800 times are better now than the summer...maybe because I'm also running with people, that would help motivate...the repeat workouts I did in July have much better times NOW than then...I remember struggling to do the 200 workout with good times...now I do it in good times...its the 400 workout I'm struggling on...but looks like I WONT be doing those events anyway...It'lll be more of a middle distance/relay/distance runner...which is fine by me...I enjoy the LSDs and the 12 Mile runs better now than doing actual sprinting workouts and drills...I jus have more fun and look forward to it more...
So Most likely I'll use the winter season as a lanching pad, to have good times in the spring (If you look at my times my entire career, winter had OK times, Spring had those "HOLY SHIT" times) Theres at least three meets i know of, and depending on thsi one weekend its either CTC's or somthing else...so at least 4 more meets of winter...the spring schedule usually picks up around after spring break anyway...so that training will be very useful. Hopefully I can keep good practices despite bad weather...I mean if i go to Mercy, and its bad out, we run in our small, small gym..which in return doesn't do much for me...i'll have to make it up at the gym or on my own, and thats like aantoher practice (three a day? never fun when you add in work and school!!!)
I'm gonna enjoy my final winter break, train, run, hit up the gym, get into decent form, start spring semester, continue my own path until later on, then hit up the meets and then come may-GRADUATION
so far looks like i'll be doing:
-800M
-4X800M Relay
-DMR/SMR (If applicable)
-1600/3000/3200 I want to work on as well, so it gives me a purpose of going to meets and actually using energy and running....
I mean I tell coach I'm down for whatever, but idk...we have pretty much everything else, I'm just antoher middle guy...I helped in XC, I guess I'm more for trying to do good in my times more than anything else...
When I'm done with this, whether its work or grad school, I want ot train for my self and keep in shape, and to hopefully coach...or something...It's just not as much fun anymore...
I talked to Rich about it not too long ago...Mercy isn't like high school..but it was worth the training and transfer...no question..
Idk I'm also older and I have more to look forward to, and I do enjoy coaching, that competitive edge in me is gone, I actually hate racing and stuff liek taht...I like the workouts and practices and training more b/c it gives me accomplishments...and I like teaching and giving info out to runners who are encouraged to learn...like take Balko:
Kid ran a 24 flat standing up in the 200m
Didn't know how to down start at all
I taught him the down start Non-block style
I was gonna teach him the block style as well before I left
Kid is down to about a 23? still not 100% in down starting
I was gonna help out the 4x2 relay team in handoffs/etc
These kids over at Stepinac are young-11/10/9 graders with a few seniors
They have potential...like Balko, kid could run states, break 22 flat as a sophmore?!?!
Idk...stuff like taht excites me now...i just dont know
who knows? by springtime I'll have more enthusiasm...but its like I go out with people, jam in I4NI with my friends, and its like Track/XC is far from my mind...
so its all in the air right now...but I want to finish this, my senior year, strong...
With all this fucken snow falling, its been almost impossible to keep up a constant program in regards to running...the roads are always frozen for the most part; So there goes the morning/mid day runs...Then with the snow fall accumulations sticking on the tracks, I can't find a clean track till after a few days following a snow storm. I could always hit up the aqueduct...but thats always frozen/covered in snow, so while I can get the tempo runs/LSDS in it be kinda dangerous in the same meaning...plus going down to Dobbs/Hastings/Irvington and back to Thornwood in between my morning and afternoon shifts is pretty hard...
Of course it may be the weater; if given a good day I could probably make it and run practically anywhere for one run and then have an actual practice on a legit track. But the weather is too cold, and underarmor has a cut off-below 25 degrees and you are totally fucked with running....
so with this starting hte final two weeks left of break before spring semester, as well as the first meet back with the team at the Armory, I'm gonna do what I'm doing, mostly because the only difference between now and say two weeks is the fact I'll have homework on top of everything, and my firends will be back at their colleges. That may actually be a blessing, lol, for I can focus more on training than other things....
But this weather needs to break...since Pville doesnt have a team on thier track until say March, I could always do my own workouts until then...the weather will break and I could do two a days and return to Mercy for practice. I'd say just return to Mercy, say tomorrow, but the fact my coach doesnt give us a work out, and basically let us go for break saying to find our own programs/train by ourselves...
so yeah...this spring break, however, I am FINALLY going to return to Florida to visit my grandma, and in the process hitting up the Florida sun and beautiful temperatures at least once a day, maybe more...a focus on just training down in nice weather is waht I did in the summertime-and that is when my running got REALLY good...
couple of days, just me thsi time visiting, so it won't be like lets drive to Orlando for a day..won't have a car, so tech walking/jogging will be needed even if I wanted to go to the beach, or park.
I mean my 800 times are better now than the summer...maybe because I'm also running with people, that would help motivate...the repeat workouts I did in July have much better times NOW than then...I remember struggling to do the 200 workout with good times...now I do it in good times...its the 400 workout I'm struggling on...but looks like I WONT be doing those events anyway...It'lll be more of a middle distance/relay/distance runner...which is fine by me...I enjoy the LSDs and the 12 Mile runs better now than doing actual sprinting workouts and drills...I jus have more fun and look forward to it more...
So Most likely I'll use the winter season as a lanching pad, to have good times in the spring (If you look at my times my entire career, winter had OK times, Spring had those "HOLY SHIT" times) Theres at least three meets i know of, and depending on thsi one weekend its either CTC's or somthing else...so at least 4 more meets of winter...the spring schedule usually picks up around after spring break anyway...so that training will be very useful. Hopefully I can keep good practices despite bad weather...I mean if i go to Mercy, and its bad out, we run in our small, small gym..which in return doesn't do much for me...i'll have to make it up at the gym or on my own, and thats like aantoher practice (three a day? never fun when you add in work and school!!!)
I'm gonna enjoy my final winter break, train, run, hit up the gym, get into decent form, start spring semester, continue my own path until later on, then hit up the meets and then come may-GRADUATION
so far looks like i'll be doing:
-800M
-4X800M Relay
-DMR/SMR (If applicable)
-1600/3000/3200 I want to work on as well, so it gives me a purpose of going to meets and actually using energy and running....
I mean I tell coach I'm down for whatever, but idk...we have pretty much everything else, I'm just antoher middle guy...I helped in XC, I guess I'm more for trying to do good in my times more than anything else...
When I'm done with this, whether its work or grad school, I want ot train for my self and keep in shape, and to hopefully coach...or something...It's just not as much fun anymore...
I talked to Rich about it not too long ago...Mercy isn't like high school..but it was worth the training and transfer...no question..
Idk I'm also older and I have more to look forward to, and I do enjoy coaching, that competitive edge in me is gone, I actually hate racing and stuff liek taht...I like the workouts and practices and training more b/c it gives me accomplishments...and I like teaching and giving info out to runners who are encouraged to learn...like take Balko:
Kid ran a 24 flat standing up in the 200m
Didn't know how to down start at all
I taught him the down start Non-block style
I was gonna teach him the block style as well before I left
Kid is down to about a 23? still not 100% in down starting
I was gonna help out the 4x2 relay team in handoffs/etc
These kids over at Stepinac are young-11/10/9 graders with a few seniors
They have potential...like Balko, kid could run states, break 22 flat as a sophmore?!?!
Idk...stuff like taht excites me now...i just dont know
who knows? by springtime I'll have more enthusiasm...but its like I go out with people, jam in I4NI with my friends, and its like Track/XC is far from my mind...
so its all in the air right now...but I want to finish this, my senior year, strong...