July 20, 2008
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Running Around in Circles
I’ve been away for a bit. Nothing huge has really been going on in my life. I guess I’m settling into a routine of some sort. Unfortunately, it’s not a routine that I really want to be in.
In the meantime, I have been torturing myself for the process that i am going through. Fortunately, I happen to live by someone who is going through the same thing. He’s pretty much the only other guy in a 50-mile radius, and believe me, we’ve checked. In any case, part of what we are doing has us running a 300-meter sprint. My current time is 43.9 seconds, although at the last test, it was about 41.8, and I would like to get it below 40.9.
At least once a week, Dan and I will do speed work as part of our workout. In trying to better dan’t time, I decided to bring my video camera in order to show him some things that I was seeing in his form. Dan does a lot of distance running, so his form reflects that. Unfortunately, most of the stuff that you do for distance, you don’t want to do for a sprint, such as staying completely verticle. Once fatigue sets in, this starts to happen, so I decided to capture it for our review. I also had myself recorded. I found in my first run that I was tensing at the shoulders.
In the videos, we’re doing 200-meter sprints just to work on speed. The 300′s take a bit more endurance, and we just want to work on the all-out effort. Afterward, we each did 4 100-meter sprints.
This is Dan’s first run:
This is my first run:
I’m wearing new sneakers, and you can almost hear me gripping the track as I take off. Imagine me running chasing you down.Dan’s second run:
My second run:
Black 6, out.
Comments (2)
@justhopingnow - We’re specifically working on the sprint, since the 300m is a specific event. The 1.5 mile run is another event. We may run longer distances in the future, but we’re mostly training to the test.