#spring track

It was meet day for our track team, and we were at nearby South County HS for this one. The team did reasonably well. No breakout performances, but some quality benchmarks in the first invitational meet of the season. This was a vigorous week for most of my runners, since I ran them in the weekly conference meet on Wednesday, then had come back today and in many cases run two events on tired legs. Plus today was rather warm, topping out at around 80°, a far cry from Wednesday evening’s chill fest. It’s all part of the training though. As a coach I take the long view that it’s all about qualifying for and then running well in the postseason. Today was a building block.

I squeezed in a little running of my own when I could. During the meet, I jogged about a mile or so with my girl milers when they were warming up, and we went over race strategy while we ran. Hard to believe but that was actually the first time I ran continuously for more than 4 minutes. Such is life when you’re rehabbing. Then after the meet ended I logged a couple of miles on my own; this time I did a run/walk interval, but instead of 4/4, I did 5/3. Happily it went off without incident. So another step forward for me as well. Hopefully in a few days I can make it a 6/2 ratio. One day at a time, though.