It’s been a while since posting here. I won’t bother with why, just time to get organised and keep sharing.
Our first match post-lockdown for our Vets team with a trip up to Stevenage. The rain held off for a large part of the match. I haven’t run 100m for a while so took the chance for this. Had been put down into the 40-50 section, no doubt for good reason but with people dropping out and team manager isolating for Covid the reasons were lost. Great to catch up with a number of familiar faces on the Masters scene…..
I’ve been struggling with block starts recently and haven’t found time to diagnose, particularly with a focus on helping coach a number of our younger athletes in blocks has taken my mind off it.
Didn’t feel like the best start with two guys blasting away from me. Managed to get into 3rd place. I was totally surprised by a PB of 13.3 – it didn’t feel like a good race at all.
Half an hour break, this time in the 50-55 section. Suddenly 100m feels more draining than I’d anticipated – get in the excuses early as they say…….
Nothing feels quite right about this race, it’s cool, a bit breezy and starting to rain. I’m slow out of the blocks, back straight a bit more effort than it ought to be. 150m to go I was paying the price, felt a bit more like 400m hurdles than flat. Last 20 metres were through treacle. Happy to clock 60.3 on that.
A great wrap up in the 4x100m, in fact three of our middle distance guys stepped in to make the team and did a great job. We messed up the final handover so I pretty much had to stop and restart, but we did well for the scratch team.
Next up is a 400m hurdles at the London Inter Club Challenge.
