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sidwell meet #2: speed day

April 5, 2012 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 60, sunny at first then got cloudier and chilly

Comments:
didnt think too much. was easy to have a short term memory cauz i wasn't running a 800...however did remember my very first 200 i ran on this track this time last year - and well was a lil dissapointed afterward...

400m dash: 71ish ?
went well actually. got on my toes at a relatively good place. finished strong all the way thru. expected to feel WAY worse (remembering championships last year...) but i guess i told myself how bad it would feel, how bad it was supposed to feel, that it ended up being better than i thought itd be. mind over matter. afterthought: possibly couldve gone out stronger. oh and didnt have a great start (i cant start for my life...stupid gun/whistle...tho thats no excuse - i cant start period. i prob lost a second right there. lol)

200m dash: 31ish?
ehhh less than satisfactory. my muscles were getting cold at this point and i wasnt ready for a real sprint. i didnt even remember how to do the whole 4point stance thing...(thank u aja/heather for helping me). i just felt slow. not like the 400 where u feel like ur legs are dragging the 2nd half. but like i just want sprinting - i mean really sprinting. but my form was ok and i managed the 4 point stance.
the sprinters have a different aura about them. less stress perhaps? chill. less time-crazed. dare i say lazy? but not necessarily in a bad way. i liked it.

4x400m relay: uhhh who knows?
what is this???? i thought we were doing 4xlap ie only running 347m! thanks for the heads up! ok so it wasnt that bad...anyway....i recieved the piton in my usual jostled way. i fumbled with it, didnt run in a straight line, wavered a bit more, and finally switched the baton to my right hand. yeah it was bad news. it took WAY to long for me to finally hit my stride. who knows how much time i lost there...but i got back in the game and focused on the girl in white. at first i thought maybe i could catch up with her...but then realized how far ahead she was so decided on not letting her stretch the distance btw us any more. i focused on that and stayed strong. but then i got on the balls of my feet way earlier than usual (20ish meters from the curve), hesitant at first, then confidently into sprinting form. halfway thru the turn i suddenly realized - hey, i can totally out run this girl! i wasnt quite sure if i actually cud, but i was sure that i cud put a foot in the competition. then as i was coming out of the turn i realized - ok no, i was wrong, i can DEFINITELY beat this girl. so i put my game face on and sprinted. i quickly pulled ahead and brought it in strong the rest of the way. i was satisfied. but annoyed that i fumbled with the baton so much and wasted so much time! what was i doing! it had to've hurt my time quite a bit which was so annoying! i really wanted to see what i could do! ahh well. it was just a weekday meet.

thought: i wonder how much it affected me that i didnt wear spikes...

had fun today. ran good.
now i've absorbed my races, thought about it, and its in the past. stored in the back of my mind, forgotten. short term memory in place.





(ok, "official" results: 400: 71.7, 200: 31.6, 73?)