Training Log Archive: c.underwood

Today I had a swim meet. I didn't do too well, I was up late last night and I haven't swam in a bit. But the good thing is that i improved my time in the 50 free and 200 backstroke.

I wanted to go for a run in the snow today, but my parents wouldnt let me. So instead I went sledding with some friends

My coach is terrible. Instead of having a recovery day since we had a meet yesterday he made us do a work out. So the entire time my legs hurt. And to add to my muscle pain I also had shin splints. I have had shin splints off and on for a few weeks now, so I think I will start to wear my new pair of shoes.

So what we did today was we warmed up, stretched, and then did our work out, and then stretch again. For the work out we did 3 miles of fartlicks around our commons. So we did one mile, which is 3 laps, then we did one lap recovery. We did one more of those and then it started to get too dark so our coach told us to only 2 laps around the commons and then head in.

We had our first real meet today. We lost 42 to 44, which really sucked. My coach wanted me to save my energy for a bigger meet on friday so he told me to go easy. In the end I got first against the team we were racing against but second overall. If I was going all out I probably could have beat the other kid. I was basically comfort running the whole time. On friday I will go all out and hopefully qualify for states which is 10:30

Today was a pre meet, so we warmed up and double stretched. Then we did another mile and then we were done.

But today we got our uniforms and this time we get to keep them.

Today we did our run at the track. It wasn't supposed to be a workout since we have a meet wednesday but it was supposed to be fast. So our coach had us do 400 repeats at 82 seconds. But we complained that that was too slow so we aimed for 75 seconds. So we did our warm up running down to the track and then stretched, and did our 400 repeats.

400 1 - 76
400 2 - 79
400 3 - 76
400 4 - 73
400 5 - 78
400 6 - 73
400 7 - 75
400 8 - 74

We weren't too good at keeping pace, but since I was up until 2:15 last night doing this stupid bio lab I think I did pretty good. After we did our 400s we did a 1200 cooldown and then continued it back to the school where we stretched and then left.

I was supposed to have a swim meet today but our competitors in mass got hit by the ice storm so it was canceled. So instead I went to church, and started my homework that im going to be up all night doing.