2015 Starts with Canada

Toronto

This weekend, the first of 2015, I traveled to Toronto with my father for the first race of the New Year. It had been roughly 4 weeks since my last race, and my coach and I had been working hard on some more form tuning.

I often tell people I am not a fan of holidays, and these past 4 weeks demonstrate why. It was difficult the past 4 weeks to get any consistent training because of the holidays. Although that was the case, we were able to maintain a fairly good schedule of training, not allowing too many days between workouts. Another struggle the past 4 weeks has been the lack of a steady practice facility. I have trained on a high school rec track (hard rubber), high school hall way, and university athletic training bubble (on turf).

This race was not meant to be breaking any speed barriers. We went to Toronto in hopes that what we were able to work on would hold in a race situation. Overall this was a time trial to find more holes in style.

This meet, being only a few days after the New Year, was sparse, having only 2 competitors at 42" and one at 39" for the heats round. and only one and one for the finals.

The heats round felt rusty, my coach worked me hard during the week with a new drill and I was feeling it. My legs woke up a bit more for the race but my time was mediocre at best with a 8.47. Finals, my legs felt slightly better and so was my time. Running out front winning by over a half second, I ran a 8.34.

This showed consistency, and demonstrated my training/form work was holding. The problems with speed came as the result of a similar problem from when I first began working with Coach Johnson. We worked form, but didn’t work the attack much. Studying the film we saw the problem and know exactly where to go from here.

Racing again in Canada this next weekend at the University of Windsor.