I'm Back!

I can't believe it's been 3 months. Wow. A shoulder injury and a hip pointer injury later, I'm finally feeling better and faster. I'm also organizing my ultimate team's workouts, which has been great. We did some full speed work and plyos today. We started off with a 200m, which I ran in 23.7 seconds. I was certainly pleased, as this is a PR for me. Having other folks to run with really helps. The crazy thing is I haven't been working out as much recently, so once I get back into that, I expect to feel even better. We took a sufficient break (actually a little longer than we wanted) and then ran a 450m. I came through in 45.5 seconds and then paced off the beginning distance to check. Turns out we ran closer to 340m, but that's still around 47 seconds. It's encouraging to know I still have my speed. My legs haven't felt particularly good in most of our practices thus far, so I'm going to think about returning to a more sprint season type schedule now that I have done some conditioning in July and August. I'll use Chesapeake this weekend as a gauge. I certainly want to get in the gym more.

At any rate, while I sincerely doubt anyone is really checking this after such a long silence, I thought I'd poke my head up. I'll be posting more and am looking forward to continued sprinting work this fall and beyond. My injuries stymied my racing this summer, so the sub-50 goal is still out there. I know I can do it, but it certainly won't be easy. I will say that I ran in full-health on May 17th and even if ther hadn't been wind, Alison thinks I'd have been around a 51. So, the wind was not the deciding factor. I'm confident I'll be even faster going forward.

I'm excited to line up out there this weekend. I'm itching for some monster plays...

Yeah 200m PR!

Andrew