Workouts

Theses last couple weeks of track we have been doing workouts that will get us into outdoor shape and ready for the outdoor season to start. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday are our hardest workouts of the week. he last couple weeks for the "hard days" we have usually ran five 200's at 85 90%. Sometimes running that workout really gets to me. for this last week we run our 200 walk back half way and then jog the rest of the way back to our starting line and start up right again. this can be really tiring sometimes because seeing how you get no chance to catch your breath in between reps. But i know in the long run these workouts are really going to pay off and help me improve my time by a lot. I know it seems that only running five 200's seems like nothing, but it really can be a lot if you think about it..especially for a sprinter.

Now for the easy days on Tuesday and Thursdays..What we usually do on these days is go for a "nice and easy" 2 mile run. Coach says it is to shake everything out and to help us recover faster. Sometimes i think there are other things that we could do that would benefit us better then a 2 mile run. lets think about it at a meet we don't even run 2 miles total. usually at a meet i only run 600 meters. i can understand how it can help us become stronger and help us have more endurance, but i know there has to be other ways we could build it up. i trained with a trainer for pre season track and he said it wasn't necessary for us to run over 300 meters at any point in the season. i really don believe that this is true. Ohh well i will live with running 2 miles and i know that it will just make me better overall. i sure hope so!!