indoor Automatic
Man, I have been slacking on my blogging. I apologize for that everyone. It's been an eventful year so far.
January:
I had a few personal problems that caused me to miss our first two meets (Mizzou and EIU), but I think it worked out for me. I opened up on the 26th at the Illinois College Snowbird Invitational. My 400 time was 48.41, which is my flat track P.R. I felt that it was a good opener. My relay team didnt come to that meet, so that was pretty much all I did (I'm not going to count the mediocre 200 I ran).
February:
This month we started off at the Hoosier Relays at Indiana University. My hamstring had been bothering me, so I only ran in the invite 400 and the 4x4. The 400 was interesting, I came through the 200 in about 21.6, which I think wasn't too fast but I was pressing too much, and had an UGLY last 50. I still ran 47.87 to P.R though, so I was happy with it. The relay wasn't what we expected, and we ran 3:15.29 to take 3rd.
The next week, I headed back to Illinois College, but this time the whole team came. Coach thought that I could use a nice workout, so he decided to have me run the 4x200, 800, and the 800 leg on the DMR. I had never run an 800 before, so in the open 800 I just took it out and lead the race for the first 600 or so meters. I was lookin' GOOD! haha, then about 6 gorillas came and jumped on my back. I ended up running 2:00.3, which was about right for me haha. By the time the DMR rolled around, I was hurting, so my split had to be ugly, but we still ended up winning it.
This weekend was the Iowa State Classic. I had never SEEN an oversized track before, let alone run on one, so it was a little intimidating at first. Friday night we ran the 200, which for me was absolutely atrocious. Andretti Bain from ORU dropped a 21.12 on me as I watched from my lane coming in at 22.01. Most of the team had similarly disappointing 200m results.
Saturday was a different ballgame though, since I had the 400 and the 4x4. I was in lane 8 in the 400, and I went into the race just wanting to get out hard and keep those wild dogs in the lanes inside of me from breaking the stagger too soon. Iowa state has some super long turns, but I held it out pretty well. I got to the break just a little behind Justin Kremer from Arizona State. A guy from Nebraska passed me on the final straight, but I held on well enough for a 47.15. Which was good to see on the boards. This is the fastest I've ever run indoors, my first indoor auto mark, and that ranks me in the top spot in DII after the .5 second conversion to 200m flat track standards. My 4x4 also did well, we won our heat in 3:13.08 to hit automatic qualifying. This is the first time since 05 my relay is going to indoor nationals with me, so I'm excited by that. I also got to meet a few people from Trackshark, so shout out to SMU Trackstar and Jeremy Orr.
I promise, I'll update more frequently now. Thanks for reading.
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Congrats
Congrats on you qualifying and your Pr. Isn't Iowa State like 300m?
hey!!!
9:02 PM, February 17, 2008
.. Posted by orrjerem
It was really a pleasure meeting you this weekend! And congrats on hitting that auto mark in the 400. Good luck with the rest of the season, and I'm sure we will be seeing more of each other. I'll be keeping an eye out for you.
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11:28 PM, February 17, 2008
.. Posted by mrr82
How can you not think a 21.6 is too fast for a 400 where you ran 47.8? That's way to fast. If you'd gone out in high 22's or low 23's, you could have broken 47 possibly. Or perhaps your split is way off....you did only run 22.1 in your open 200.
Michael Johnson would go out in mid 21's in his 400's. That's many a 400 runners problem is they always go out to hard. Just something to think about.
Good Job
12:34 PM, February 18, 2008
.. Posted by www.cormaxtc.us
Hey just listen to your coach and ignor mrr82 obviously he's got you doing something right since you've been consistently improving all of this year your on point to hit some real big marks this year. I doubt you have your splits off, like you said you've never seen a 300 meter track and ISU is a big meet lots of competion and the 200 isn't your main event probably just ran alil tight,That's why you ran 22.1... Anyways you'll figure it out on your own with the help of your coaches to figure out how fast you need to hit your first duce..
Keep doing what you do.... Ignor tha haters...
Indoor Auto
6:45 PM, February 18, 2008
.. Posted by Speedfirst
Man, big ups for the open and the relay, that should really help your confidence going forward. Much success the remainder of the indoor season to you and the team and also going into outdoors, as you represent that great state of Illinois!!!. My prayers that your season is healthy as well, God bless!!
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