Blogs : Calvin Abram

From A terrible Season To A Great Season :-)

            Long time no see huh folks????? I know, but this has been a very up and down season for me. The indoor season was not a very good experience for me because although we won a national championship, I did not run as good as I thought I am capable. This fastest I ran this year was 6.83 and 21.6. Those are times I could cruise last year, but it really got to me that I could not run as fast as I wanted to. I do not know what was going on the indoor season, I was trying as hard as I can to give it all I got, but for some reason I could not get things going. The outdoor season started out terrible also. I opened up with a 10.7 and a 21.6. This was unacceptable for me to be running like this. I went home one day and prayed hard as I can and asked god to give me all the strength he could to push me out faster and to give the strength to go out there and execute my races. Something told me to cut off my 2 years worth of hair because I felt like I needed a change and I need to go to our next track meet, which was the Sun Angel Classic, with a different attitude. I finally, hit 10.48 at that meet and it was a big sigh of relief for me to do that. Since I have cut my hair, I went 10.4 five times, got runner up in the 200 meters at the Pac 10 championships and I went 20.96 two days ago at our regional championships. I have automatically qualified for the National Championship in 2 weeks for the 100 and 200 meters. No matter how good or bad I do at the meet, it will be a big accomplishment for me to go there and run just because I have come a long way this season. If someone would have asked me if I would be going to this meet in March, I would have told them that I seriously doubt it. My older brother and father are my main sources I go to for advice. They both told me that I have to believe that I am fast and everything will fall in place. They said that I have the talent but it will take more than that for me to go out and set my goals. There have been a couple key people on our team that have gotten hurt that really hurt both our 4x1 and our 4x4. These injuries came out of nowhere because we stay in the training room and we are getting the proper training, but there are some things that we cannot control. I am going to the National Championship with a focused attitude. I am going to really try to execute my races and hopefully everything will come out the way I wont to to.

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9:43 PM, June 2, 2008 .. Posted by ULMSpeeddemon

About time you post a blog. Keep it up broham.
River Cities!

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2:00 AM, June 3, 2008 .. Posted by Brooklynrunz

Congrats to you on your qualification to Nationals. I think the best thing about trials is the way it makes us stand still, if only for a moment and re-evaluate the game plan. You know, like am I doing wrong.
Nonetheless, I am glad to hear that the effort you put in and the trust you placed in God worked in your favor!

sup youngster

10:49 PM, June 3, 2008 .. Posted by Starr

good job man! did you know you share birthdays with mo greene, and your b-day is 1 day before mine.lol good luck at nats!!!