Walking 30:00 [1] 3.2 km (9:22 / km)
To Franklin field
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Penn Relays.
A cold, raw feeling day and at race time low 50s. Glad I've been training in long legs and sleeves, will be de rigor tonite. Hopefully won't feel too constrained and slow!
Franklin Field arena itself a colorful zoo with herds of gazelles, human thoroughbreds and sundry others. Vendors and Press everywhere. Palpable buzz and energy.
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A fun day. Some success as in:
1. I didn't get injured (despite the cold)
2. I didn't drop The baton (in fact the 100 exchange was pretty smooth and we smoked the A team!)
3 felt like I ran pretty well (13 x for the 100 and 65-66 for the 400) again despite being cold and stiff (good distance running weather)
4. Definitely had fun!
More later...
Jogging warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.75 km (5:27 / km)
Chilly damp day, hard to get loose.
Stretching 15:00 [1]
Dynamic, roller and stick
Drills warm up/down 12:00 [2] 0.6 km (20:00 / km)
Usual with half doz wind sprints, then stick practice.
Track race 14 [4] 0.1 km (2:20 / km)
First event 4x100, anchor leg. Felt like a real pro putting my tape down on the track (6paces upstream of small yellow triangle. Took a smooth transfer from incoming runner and managed to gain 2 places on the run in- and nearly a third scalp. Ran 13 somethin. Team was 5th about 7 secs behind world record setting Houston Elite. Real sprinters!
Track race 1:06 [4] 0.4 km (2:45 / km)
11/2hours to get cold and stiff then back out. Running anchor again with a reshuffled A squad (injuries!). Twenty teams in this race, so a few falls.
Clean exchange well before the finish line and could have got going faster and used up more of the zone as incoming runner finished strong. Had to pass a couple of guys and had to move out to lane 2 for a spell. Solid effort, somewhere in the 65-66 range, and pretty good considering conditions. Gold for our M60A team complete with plaque! Picture coming :-)
Walking 1:30:00 [1] 10.0 km (9:00 / km)
A whole of walking (garmin said 17km for the day). From warm up to paddock and back and again and again! Dinner and beer in an Irish pub afterwards.