Blogs : Eric Simmons

Oh gosh.

Yeah, I was delayed a little bit from my usual monday posting date because I had some tests, a paper, and have just been plain tired. Last week consisted of the usual shtick of mileage, weights, and hills on monday, wednesday. On tuesday, we had 4 400s with 4 min rest, in which I ran 54, 55, 56, and 57. On Friday, we ran 4x1000s, in 3:25, 3:15, 3:15, and 3:05. On Sunday, we came back with 4x200s, in which I ran 22.9, 23.0, 24.0, and 23.5. We only had about 4,5 min rest, and we were just focusing on getting out to the curve and maintaining form down the stretch.

To be honest, I didn't really wanna sit here and type what we did last week during practice. However, I would like to talk about practice habits. Myself and a good majority of the other people on the team all exhibit good habits. For example, we are always on time, we work as hard as we came, we keep the socializing and the other garbage that needs to be kept off the track to a minimum. I'm not saying we come to practice and are completely anti-social, but we tend to lean to the side where we come to practice, do our workout, and go home. We have some other people, however, who come to practice with some of that "other stuff" that needs to be left at home. I'm not naming any names, I'm just saying some more professional needs to be exhibited at practice. We all should just do our workouts to the best of our ability and try to get better both as a team and individually, go home, and then come back and do it again the next day. There's no need to bring all of life's distractions and other crap to practice, it should be a sort of escape from our regular life, even though we can hardly breathe at times.

Yeah, my journal was pretty short this week as I'm pretty pressed for time. This weekend though, Clayton State plays UGA in basketball in Athens and we're going up for that which should be a good time. Well, I guess I'll see you guys next time.