Currently

Well, this track season has been prematurely aborted. I peaked too early as a result of too much anaerobic capacity (really fast stuff or read Coe and Martin for a precise definition) training too early in my training macrocycle and even moved into a stage of burnout/fatigue/staleness. I let my ambitions take over loosing sight of the proper training method. I feel this may have been prevented had my coach been around to monitor my workouts more often than once. However, as I am willingly responsible for my own actions, I blame only myself. Live and learn.

So now I recover. I've been only running a few miles, not even every day for about two weeks now. I may start training again as early as this up and coming Monday. I have a few abstract ideas for this cross country season and the following track season that I would like to put into effect. However, Kim now wants, presumably after watching me fail once, to take part in designing my training reginimes. We will see. After all he does grant me a scholarship, which is important to me at this time.

This brings me to another point I would like to mention. That is that I am not sure if I will continue to engage in college athletics folling my last semester at Macomb. This is primarily because I disagree with the NCAA system. I also feel that I need to have a say in what I do as an athlete. I should be able to say what kind of training I do, which races I run, and so fourth. This is my endeavor, no one else’s. I will not put my fait in the hands of proud coach whose best interests are not mine. I could go on about this but I won't. Now the only problem with this is that if I continue to go to college, how will I finance going to school while at the same time having enough time to train extensively? From my standpoint, it appears that I cannot have the best of both worlds. This upsets me and I will continue to investigate this matter.

5 weekends of racing

I am now ready to race. My first race is going to be over 5000m (3.1 miles or 12 1/2 laps around the track) at Saginaw Valley State University. I don't have any specific time in mind for this meet, so I am just going to run by feel. I imagine that I will run in the neighborhood of 15:06-15:17, given that there is little or no wind. I have tired legs from this week but I will be ready for this race and the result will be pretty good.

A link to my race schedule: http://www.macomb.edu/athletics/teams/MWtrack/schedule.asp

Final test

Since my first race was cancelled, tomorrow will be my final test before I start racing. I will run an 8k (5 miles) time trial. I want to run something like 24:50. I don't know how it will go because I had to do some "catch-up" training earlier this week since I was sick last week, so I am a little tight in the muscles.

I don't think getting sick hurt me as much as I thought it would because my training has been going well, but the only way to tell for sure is to do hard workouts or races. However, the racing season is here so I can't be doing hard workouts now. Therefore, this time trial is very important as it will determine my racing capabilities.

Last month in training I ran 25:38 with negative splits of 13:23 and 12:14, so I think running 24:50 is within my grasp if I run even splits.